Team Infinniti wrote:wvumtnbkr wrote:I think I stated my feelings about this earlier in teh thread....
DO NOT GET CHEAP RADIOS!
We did and they sucked. We eventually stepped it up to a proper car harness, helmet setups, with business radios and an external mount antenna. SOOOOO MUCH BETTER!
We spent 3 times teh amount of money we needed to buy buying different crap trying to get the system reliable. Just get the good stuff right away.
Rob R.
We did the same thing, skip the cheap stuff and go right to expensive and wind up saving 50%
I completely endorse this attitude, but it may be slightly misplaced for a new team that may be trying to discover if they are hooked on our addiction. Believe it or not, there are teams that form, do one or two races, and disband. For those teams, it would not make a lot of sense to sink serious $$ into radio set ups.
So my advice for a new teams, still trying to see if they are really & fully addicted, would be to skip the radios entirely for the first race or two. Use a pit board and hand signals/flashing headlights from the driver. That really is good enough for your first couple of races, and gives your team enough time to figure out if they are in it to stay. Then if so, spend the $$ on quality radio set ups. IMHO, etc.
Pat Mulry, TARP Racing #67
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