Weather station

[Tom Goldman]

Jeff ,occasionally you will have one station stepping on another, its usually not a problem at Divisional races but with all the radio traffic at National events , I have seen issues with signals reaching the staging lanes. Maple Grove in particular can be difficult because of the pit layout.

[Don Higgins]

The only reason any weather station will "step over" another is if the transmitter has been modified and now "bleeds over" to other frequencies. They think it helps the range but it really does the opposite.

The only place I see this is in Division 7 where some Top Alcohol team ( yet to be determined ) which causes problems for racers at Vegas and a few other places.

There are a million frequencies and many millions of cap codes for the pagers so there should be zero problems.

One other item is to make sure your paging weather stations do not have the antenna wire coiled up, that causes problems for some.

[Chris Williams]

Originally Posted by Don Higgins

There are a million frequencies and many millions of cap codes for the pagers so there should be zero problems.

And literally no one in the world other than drag racers using pagers since about the mid-1990s, so...

[Don Higgins]

Originally Posted by Chris Williams

And literally no one in the world other than drag racers using pagers since about the mid-1990s, so...

Weird, just this week at the hospital the doctors and nurses all had one, every restaurant I went to they gave us those disks that vibrate ( which are just pagers by the way ), and "Blart" the mall security guard had one.

They didn't get the message apparently....

[Chris Williams]

Originally Posted by Don Higgins

Weird, just this week at the hospital the doctors and nurses all had one, every restaurant I went to they gave us those disks that vibrate ( which are just pagers by the way ), and "Blart" the mall security guard had one.

They didn't get the message apparently....

http://www.npr.org/2012/07/18/156956...agers-obsolete

Edds is literally the only person I could find who still tracks pager use. The market research firms I talked to stopped studying pagers so long ago, they no longer even keep records of the data. But Edds says even though pagers are still widely used, 70 percent of hospitals report using or experimenting with smartphones.

And a mall cop parody -- where the whole point was to show how ridiculous it was -- great recommendation.

[Glenn Quinn]

Thank you all for some great information. I will go with the hand held weather Performaire, Eclipse.

[Bob Gullett]

Originally Posted by Don Higgins

The only reason any weather station will "step over" another is if the transmitter has been modified and now "bleeds over" to other frequencies. They think it helps the range but it really does the opposite.

The only place I see this is in Division 7 where some Top Alcohol team ( yet to be determined ) which causes problems for racers at Vegas and a few other places.

There are a million frequencies and many millions of cap codes for the pagers so there should be zero problems.

One other item is to make sure your paging weather stations do not have the antenna wire coiled up, that causes problems for some.

That explains why at the last 3 Vegas races the pager sometimes would not read correctly once in a while. Interesting!