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bbkRC Reference Manual

V1.0

Club Professional*

Professional Plus* DRIVERS*

DRIVERS Plus*

*for use with

AMB-it Autocount Equipment

http://www.bbksoftware.com

October 2003 bbkRC Reference Manual Rev 0.3

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© 2000, 2003 bbk Software Ltd

bbk Software Ltd 10 Wragg Drive Newmarket Suffolk CB8 7SD +44(0)1638 669069 +44(0)7803 000238 Printed in the United Kingdom Information in this manual is subject to change without notice and does not represent a commitment on the part of bbk Software Ltd. The software described in this manual is furnished under a license agreement and may be used or copied only in accordance with the terms of the agreement. License Agreement The bbk race Programs and this Manual are provided for the use of the organisation or individual they are licensed to only and may not be copied for use by any other organisation or individual. Copyrights and Trade Marks bbkRC Club, bbkRC Professional, bbkRC Professional Plus, bbkRC Drivers and bbkRC Drivers Plus © 2000, 2003 bbk Software Ltd bbkRC, CrystalBox, DRIVERnet & ARCS are Registered Trade Marks of bbk Software Ltd AMBrc is a Registered Trade Mark of AMB-IT

All other copyrights and trademarks are acknowledged.

bbkRC Reference Manual Rev 0.3 October 2003

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Table of Contents

1 Entering Data 8

Driver Names and Addresses 8 Race Times 8 Time of Day 8 Dates 8 Safety Nets 9

2 Keyboard Shortcuts & Themes 10 Saving Changes to Entries 10 Cancelling Changes to Entries 10 Deleting Selected Items 10 Making a New Item 10

Selecting Groups of Items 11 Filter 11 Group By 11 Sort By 11 Display 11 Number of Items in a collection 11 Selecting Columns for Display 12

Keyboard Navigation Shortcuts 12 Ctrl+ M 12 Ctrl + D 12 Ctrl + C 12 Ctrl + P 12 Ctrl + W 12 Run Races 12

3 Making a New Meeting 14 Make New Meeting 14

Meeting Name 14 Meeting Venue 14 Meeting Date 14 Track 14 Race Time Format 15 Race Clock Format 15 Count Down Race Clock 15 Autocount 15 Settings for Practice, Heats, Points Races and Finals 15 Number of Rounds 15 Start Time 15 Interval Between Rounds 15 First Heat Advance 15 Results Prints 15 List Prints 15 Grid List Prints 15 EOR List Prints 16

16 Printer Selection 16

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16 Making changes to a Meeting 16


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Managing Meetings 16

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16 Prepare for New Meeting 17 Delete this meeting 17

4 Entering Driver & Car Details 18 Required Driver Information 18

Driver Name 18 Club ID 18

Required Car Information 18 Car Name 18 Car Crystals 19 Notes 19

Additional Driver Data 19 National # 19 Club Member 19

Ability Tab 20 Ability 20 Formula 20 Roof Colour 20 Driver Type 20

20 Team 20 Note area 20

Contact Tab 20 Address 20 PostCode 20 Email, Phone and Mobile 20 Club Member Type 20 Date of Birth, Join Date & Renew Date 20

BRCA Membership Tab 21 Car Tab 21

Car Name 21 Car Manufacturer 21 Car Model 21 Type 21

5 Setting Up Race Classes 22 Race Class descriptor settings 22

Name 22 Track Name 22 Warmup Laps 22 Scale 22

Race Type Specific settings 22 Settings for Practice, Heats and Points Races 22

Race Length 22 Maximum Cars 23 Start Type 23 Auto Start Cars After 23 Or First Car Laps 23 Qualify 24 Grid 24

Settings for Finals Races 24 Race Duration 24


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Legs 24 Rules 24

Track Dependant Settings 24 Minimum Lap 24 Maximum Lap 24 Maximum Last Lap 25 Time Between Races 25 Time from Start to Loop 25 Lap Length 25

6 Entering Competitors into a Meeting 26 Minimum Requirements for Selecting a Competitor 26

Selecting a Driver 26 Selecting a Car 26 Selecting a Race Class 26

Additional Settings for Competitors 26 Entry Status 26 Paid 26

Competitor details 26 Is Member 27 Nat # 27 BRCA # 27 Ability 27 Formula 27 Roof Colour 27 Driver Type 27

27 Team 27 Car Manufacturer 27 Car Model 27 Transponder Type & Transponder 28 Crystals 28

Saving Competitors 28 Automatically sorting Competitors into Races 29

Make Races 29 7 Exploring Races 30

Race View 30 Drivers Tab 30 Results Tab 30 Lap Times 31 Race Analysis 31 Race View Toolbar 31

Races View 31 Race Parameters 31 Colour Coding of Races 31 Locating a Competitor 31

Holding Area 31 8 Running Races 32

Race Header 32 Race Information 32 Race Progress 33 Secondary Race Information 33 Race Schedule 33 Transponder Signal Information 34


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Controlling Races 34 Race Toolbar Controls 34

9 Running a Series 36 Making a New Series 36 Updating Round Scores 36 Updating Individual Competitor Information 36

10 Publishing Results to the Internet 37 Driver Details 37 Competitor Details 37 Practice Race Details 37 Heat Details 37 Finals Data 37 Meeting Summary 37 Series Data 37 Meeting Index 37 Race Results Index 37 HTML Setup 37

11 Maintaining Driver’s Ability 38 View End of Round 38

12 Open Practice 39 Setting up Open Practice 39

13 RC Crystals 40 Selecting Required RC Frequency Bands 41 Adding and re Assigning RC Channels 41 Marking RC Channels Unavailable 41 Setting Minimum Channel Separation 41

Save or Cancel changes 41 Resetting Default Bands & Channels 41

14 Autocount Systems and Transponder Management 43 Setting up AMB20 43

Using Test Autocount Equipment with AMB20 43 Edit/Explore Transponders with AMB20 44

Setting up AMBrc 44 Using Serial Ports for Data 44 Using USB Ports for Data 45 Using Test Autocount Equipment with AMBrc 45

Edit/Explore Transponders with AMBrc 46 Transponder # 46 Nickname 46 Owned by Club 46 Type 46 Group 46 Trip Condition Count Data 46 Total Condition Data 46 Date New 46 Date Last Used 47 Last Bad Battery 47 Assigned To: 47

AMBrc Transponder Management 47 Assigning Groups & Colours to Transponders 47 Assigning Ownership to Transponders 47 Assigning Nicknames to Transponders 48


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15 Scoreboards 49 16 Printing 50 17 Sound and Speech 51 18 Initial Screen Options 52 19 DRIVERnet 53 Appendix A Race Formats Supported 54

Qualifying Formats 54 Best 2 Times 54 Best Single Lap 54 BRCA 1/10th Off Road Round Points 54 BRCA Rallycross Round Points 54 BRCA Large Scale 54 EFRA Large Scale 54 FTQ 54 Reedy Race of Champions 54 STCC Super Pole 54 STCC Triple Sprint 54 Total Times 54

Grid Formats 54 Best Lap 54 Best Time 55 BRCA 1/8th Circuit 55 BRCA RallyCross 55 Last Race 55 Random 55 Reedy 55 Round 1 Grid for Best Lap, Best Time and Last Heat 55

Race Formats for Multi Leg Finals 55 BRCA 1/10th Off Road 55 Club Rules 55

Index 56


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1 Entering Data There are some special formats used for entering data other than numbers and text or selecting from pre defined Drop Down controls. If you enter invalid data, the Edit Box will be displayed with a Red background. In this example a Race Time is required.

Driver Names and Addresses To save you the trouble of typing capitals at the beginning of words in Names and Addresses there is a Checkbox provided. When checked each word automatically starts with a capital letter. If you need to enter a word that does not require this rule, un check the check box.

Race Times When entering times, if you enter a number it is interpreted as seconds. To enter a time in hours or minutes, append h or m to the number. For example: 12m3s 5m If you require a number of laps the format is: 17/303.453 or 17/5m3.453 17 Laps in 303.453 seconds

Time of Day Enter time of day in hours and minutes with a separator. Separators can be . : / or space. For example: 12:25 13.45 Time of day is displayed using the Short Time Format setting in your PC.

Dates You can enter dates in any format you like. The date is displayed in your PC Short Date Format. When entering dates you can enter numbers separated by – or . or /. The order of day, month and year is taken from the order in the PCs Short Date format (Windows Control Panel, Regional Settings, Date). For the UK this is usually day, month, year and in the USA it is month, day, year. If you enter a 1 or 2-digit year, the date is interpreted according to the PCs Calendar Rule (Windows Control Panel, Regional Settings, Date). If this is set to 2029, 2 digit years are interpreted as follows:


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Entered Data Interpreted as 0-29 2000 – 2029 30-99 1930 - 1999 Examples of Date Entry with Date as Day Month Year 12 6 34 12th June 1934 7/5/3 7th May 2003 with Date as Month Day Year 12 6 34 December 6th June 1934 7/5/3 July 5th May 2003 Note that dates prior to 1st January 1900 cannot be entered. If you have a Driver with a birth date before this date, we will supply a special version of bbkRC.

Safety Nets If you select an action that will alter data that cannot be “undone” you will see a Safety Net Dialog that will allow you to Cancel this action. In most cases the default response will be No, so that if your fingers are moving faster than your brain, you will not loose data.


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2 Keyboard Shortcuts & Themes Throughout bbkRC there are Keyboard Shortcuts and themes in the way you can use the program that will make learning bbkRC easy and operation of bbkRC efficient.

Saving Changes to Entries When you change some item of data relating to, for example a Driver, there are a number of controls to Save that change. There is

a Save Button , a Save Toolbar Button or you can press the F10 function key.

Cancelling Changes to Entries When you change some item of data relating to, for example a Driver, there are a number of controls to Cancel that change. There

is a Cancel Button , a Cancel Toolbar Button

or you can press the Esc key.

Deleting Selected Items When at item is selected, you can Delete it by First selecting it by “clicking” it with the left mouse button and then pressing the Delete Toolbar

Button . If you want to delete a number of items you can select the group and then press the right mouse button to get a Pop up Menu (Shown on right), which will include a Delete Function.

Making a New Item To make a new Item, such as a Driver, you can press the button

in the Toolbar, press the or press Ctrl-N. To speed up repetitive entry, such as booking Competitors into a Meeting,

you can check the Checkbox. When this is checked, every time you Save a Competitor, a new Competitor is created, ready for you to enter details.


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Selecting Groups of Items

When you view a collection of items, such as Drivers or Competitors it is often useful to be able to group them, sort them and filter them. The Driver & Cars, Competitors and Transponders collections all have this facility.

Filter The Filter control will restrict the Items displayed to those that in some way match the contents of the Filter box. This is a very quick way of finding a particular item. When the filter is in effect, the Filter control has a red background. To remove the filter, delete the characters in the Filter control or press the Delete key while the cursor is active in the Filter control. The filter below is causing only Drivers with “joh” as part of their name to be displayed. You can also filter on the identification number, which can be Club, National or BRCA Number.

Group By

When you select a Group By, the items are divided into groups by those criteria. You can view the while collection and also the collections with the different settings for that criteria by selecting the appropriate tab.

Sort By You can sort the displayed order of items by selecting an entry in the Sort By Dropdown.

Display You can select the Display type by selecting an entry in the Display Dropdown.

Number of Items in a collection The number of items in a collection, together with the number selected is displayed in the bottom left of the collection screen.


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Selecting Columns for Display

When information is displayed in columns, not all the columns need to be displayed. You can turn columns on and off. To select a Column for viewing right mouse click on the column headers and a Pop Up menu will appear with ticks against the columns that are displayed. To view a Hidden column, click next it in this menu and to hide a column click it in the menu. You can also hide a column by double left clicking its column header. There are some columns that should always be viewed and these columns cannot be hidden.

Keyboard Navigation Shortcuts From the Main Screen

Ctrl+ M Edit/View Current Meeting

Ctrl + D Edit/View Drivers & Cars Ctrl + N Make New Driver

• Ctrl + C Make New Car

• F6 Get next available Club Number

• Ctrl + F6 Get next available Temporary Club Number • F10 Save Driver/Car Details

• Esc Cancel Ctrl + C

Edit/View Competitors Ctrl + N Make New Competitor

• Ctrl + D Make New Driver

• F10 Save Competitor Details. If Speed Entry is checked, automatically makes next Competitor

• Esc Cancel Ctrl + P

Load Open Practice F7 Start Open Practice Session Alt + F8 Stop Practice Session Ctrl + X Close Practice Session

Ctrl + W Web Publish

Run Races F7 Start Race Practice Session


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Alt + F8 Stop Race Session. If the race is running there is a confirmation dialog. If the Race is starting, it will be stopped without confirmation. Ctrl + X Close Race Session


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3 Making a New Meeting You can choose to make a new meeting for each meeting you run, or you can “re use” the same meeting over again. You might choose to use the same meeting for your regular club meetings and make a New Meeting for Special meetings. If you are going to publish HTML for a meeting, it is advisable to make a new meeting for each of your meetings, so bbkRC can maintain an HTML index to your meetings.

Make New Meeting From the Main Screen Select Meeting|Make New Meeting.

A New Meeting Template will be displayed. The following settings are available:

Meeting Name This will be used to identify the meeting in the Title of bbkRC and will be printed on every printout.

Meeting Venue This will appear on prints.

Meeting Date This will appear on prints. The button next to this control can be used to set today’s date according to the Short Date Format set in your PC. When making a new meeting this is set to the current date.

Track This can only be changed if you have the Multiple Tracks option. It determines the Lap Parameters used for Race Timing so you can have different minimum, maximum and last lap settings for different tracks.


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Race Time Format Controls the formatting of Race Results Times. You can either set it to Seconds or Hours, Minutes and Seconds.

Race Clock Format Controls the formatting of the Race Clock in Races and Open Practice. You can either set it to Seconds or Hours, Minutes and Seconds.

Count Down Race Clock When a race is running you can see either the elapsed time (Count Up) of the race or the time left (Count Down) in the race.

Autocount If you have Autocount Support you can set the type of Autocount equipment, either AMB20 or AMBrc. If you have AMBrc connected to a USB 2.0 port you should set this to AMBrcUSB. When making a new meeting, this is always set to the Autocount Device from the previous meeting.

Settings for Practice, Heats, Points Races and Finals In this version of bbkRC, Points Races are not available.

Number of Rounds This controls the number of rounds that are scheduled. You can change this setting during a meeting. For example, if you decide to run 4 rounds of heats and start the heats, then decide to only run 3 rounds, you can set this back to 3.

Start Time This is not used in this version of bbkRC. In the future it will be used for Meeting Timetable planning.

Interval Between Rounds Set this to a number of hours, minutes and seconds to add to the normal Inter race delay to set a delay between rounds. This is useful at smaller meetings to allow drivers to prepare cars but leave bbkRC in automatic mode. During the inter round interval, bbkRC will give periodic countdown announcements if Speech Output is selected.

First Heat Advance If you want to vary the first Heat or Practice race in successive rounds set this to the number of Heats or Practice races you want to advance by each round. This option is usually only used at International Meetings.

Results Prints Set for the number of Race Results to be automatically printed at the end of each race.

List Prints Set to the number of copies of List Prints required

Grid List Prints Set to the number of Grid summaries required at end of round.


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EOR List Prints Set to the number of End of Round qualifying prints required.

This can be used to set all the number of prints to the value in the dropdown control to the left of this button. If you do not have a printer available, you can set the number of prints to zero.

Printer Selection The default printer used is the Windows Default Printer. You can reset this within bbkRC by clicking the left mouse button over the Green Printer Status information at the bottom of the Main Screen. Next time you start bbkRC the printer will revert to the current Windows Default Printer.

You make changes to the Meeting Settings, use either button to Save the changes. You can use the F10 key to save changes.

If you want to cancel any changes you make, press either button. You can use the Esc key to cancel changes.

If you do not make any changes to the Meeting you can press the OK button to return to the main screen. You can use the Enter key to do this.

Making changes to a Meeting You can make changes to the meeting settings during a meeting. You can’t do this while the Race Screen or Open Practice Screens are active. You can close either of these screens by pressing the

button in the Toolbar. Managing Meetings

If you make a new meeting for each meeting you run, you may experience a gradual slowing down of your computer as the data tables start to grow. If this happens you can move the meeting data out of the “live” tables into an archive area. When a meeting is archived, you can still view the meeting data but you cannot run any more races in that meeting until the meeting is moved back to the “live” area.

When you press this button, the meeting is archived. The Meeting Summary in the main Screen is displayed in yellow and [Archived] is appended to the Meeting name. You can make the meeting live again by pressing.

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Prepare for New Meeting If you want to re-use a meeting then you need to prepare for new meeting. You can selectively remove sections of the meeting. If you remove Competitors, then all races are also removed. Use this option with care as once you commit by pressing OK the removed data cannot be recovered.

Delete this meeting

You can delete a meeting, but first you must remove all competitors using the Prepare for New Meeting Button.


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4 Entering Driver & Car Details You can enter new Driver & Car details via the Main Screen or while creating a Competitor. In addition to the mandatory information that must be saved there are a number of optional items of Driver and Car Data.

Required Driver Information Driver Name

This can be up to 60 characters long. While entering the driver name you can set Auto Capitals (the tick box to the right of the Driver name) so there is no need to press the Shift key for capitals. These will be automatically set for you at the start of each name. For names where capitals appear within a name, such as MacMillan or O’Shea, you can turn off the Auto Capitals and enter the name as required. You can turn on Auto Capitals when you enter the next Driver name.

Club ID You can enter any number you like, provided no other Driver has that number allocated. Think of Club ID as the Driver’s Club Number. There are 2 buttons to automatically generate numbers:

Selects the lowest unused Number. Shortcut F6

Selects the lowest unused T Number. Shortcut F7 T Numbers can be used a Temporary numbers. You will be able to separate Drivers for Series points based on whether they have Number IDs or T Number Ids

Driver Name and Club ID are the only mandatory items of data that are needed to make a New Driver.

Required Car Information Car Name

A Driver can have more than one car. To select a Driver’s car, we use the Car Name. This can be anything that you like, like Buggy, Touring Car, Nitro TC etc. The name does not have to unique. It is just a way of identifying a car. To add a Car to a Driver press the

button or use Shortcut Ctrl-C. You can overtype the default car name “New Car” of leave it. If a driver only has one car you don’t need a name to select it. Don’t assign the car make as the name, there is a place for that in the Car data. You don’t need any more data for a car, but it makes sense to at least assign crystals to the car, so when the car is put into races, a suitable crystal can be selected.


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If you are using bbkRC to keep a record of your Club members, there may be some members who don’t have cars, such as the Timekeeper. There is no need for a Driver to have a Car.

Car Crystals The car’s crystals are shown in a box. To allocate new crystals check “Show All Available Crystals” and select the Tab for the Crystal band required. The available crystals are shown in yellow and the Car’s Crystals are shown in Green. To select a crystal

double click with the mouse over the crystal. To remove an assigned (green) crystal, double click it.

One of the assigned crystals can be the preferred crystal, shown underlined. To select an assigned crystal as preferred, select it and

right mouse click. Click on the Popup menu and the selected crystal will be the preferred crystal. In the above example T685 is the driver’s preferred crystal. You can select which crystal bands you want to make available. For details see the Chapter on RC Crystals.

Notes You can add Notes to a particular car. Press the Notes Tab below the Crystals Tab to select the Car Notes area.

Additional Driver Data You can keep more information about each Driver and their Cars. This might be useful for providing more information during racing and also to maintain club membership data.

National # This is for a Driver’s National Number. If you want to store BRCA Number, don’t use National Number. There is a special section for BRCA membership information.

Club Member You can use this to keep track of members, particularly at the end of the Club Year, when membership needs to be renewed. You can use this tag to select who is eligible for series points.


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Ability Tab Ability

This is a number 1-15 or blank. The higher the number, the higher the ability. You will be able to automatically set this ability based on driver performance. Blank is a lower ability than 1. Ability can be used to sort Competitors into Races.

Formula Range F5-F1 and Blank. F1 is high, F5 is low. Blank is lower than F5. Formula can be used to sort Competitors into Races.

Roof Colour This is based on the Stock Car Roof Colour system. Roof Colour can be used to sort Competitors into Races using the Stock Car Ability mixing rules.

Driver Type You can set up Driver Types to whatever you want. You can add new Driver Types or rename existing Driver Types. To add or rename a Driver Type, right mouse click over the Driver Type “box”. Select the appropriate item from the Popup Menu.

Team

You can set up Teams to whatever you want. You can add or rename a Team in a similar way to that for Driver Type.

Note area You can put whatever notes you wish in the Note Area.

Contact Tab Address

The tick box below Address is to turn on Auto Capitals for the address, to save you pressing the shift key.

PostCode This always has capitals for letters.

Email, Phone and Mobile These can be whatever you like.

Club Member Type Similar to Driver Type.

Date of Birth, Join Date & Renew Date You can enter dates in any format you like. The date is displayed in your PC Short Date Format. When entering dates you can enter numbers separated by – or . or /. The order of day, month and year is taken from the order in the PCs Short Date format. For the UK this is usually day, month, year and in the USA it is month, day, year.


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BRCA Membership Tab This tab will only be available if you have selected the BRCA Membership option in the initial screen Options tab. There is provision for keeping track of BRCA Affiliated Drivers whose Affiliation fees are paid by your Club, or who are Affiliated by another club. You can also track whether they have paid and what their interests are. You will be able to exchange this information with the BRCA Membership Administration in the future.

Car Tab This shows the current selected Car. You can select another car via the Drop Down control.

The Button can be used to delete the current selected car. The label to the left of the Car selector shows the number of Cars owned by the Driver.

Car Name You can rename a car.

Car Manufacturer This is selected using the Drop Down to the right of Car name. You can Add or Rename cars by right mouse clicking over the Drop Down.

Car Model This is selected using the Drop Down below Car manufacturer. You can Add or Rename cars by right mouse clicking over the Drop Down.

Type This is only available if you have Autocount Support. The car can be assigned No Transponder or AMBrc. If you select AMBrc you should assign a Personal Transponder. If the PT has already been used with your system it may well be in the Database. If so type part of the number or nickname and it will appear in the dropdown. You can then select it. If not you can make a new entry

for that transponder by pressing the Button. This will show the New Transponder Form. Enter the Transponder Number and Save. If after you have entered the 7 digit transponder number, number box remains red, that transponder was already in the system. Press Cancel and enter the transponder number. If you assign a Transponder that is already “owned” by another car, you will be warned and given the option to remove the PT from the other car.


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5 Setting Up Race Classes There are 10 predefined Race Classes set up when bbkRC is installed. You can alter any of the settings within a Race Class to suit the type of racing you require.

Race Class descriptor settings Name

The Race Class name will be used to identify the Race Class. It will be announced if you enable the Speech Option.

Track Name This indicates the Track that is currently selected for the Meeting.

Warmup Laps This entry is not used in the current version of bbkRC.

Scale This indicates the scale of cars that use this Race Class.

Race Type Specific settings There are 4 types of races available in bbkRC. Practice, Heats, Points Races and Finals. Points Races are not available in this version of bbkRC. You can control settings individually for each type of Race but to save you time, you can change settings for all Race Types at once. If you want to set the Minimum Lap for all type of racing, select the All tab and then change the Minimum Lap. The Minimum Lap will be set for all Race Types. While the All tab is selected, entries that are the same for all types of Races are shown in Black and those that have different values for different Race Types are shown in Grey.

Settings for Practice, Heats and Points Races Race Length

You can specify a Race Length as a Time or as a Time and a Number of Laps. If you specify a Time, the race will run for the Time you have specified. If you specify a number of laps and a time, the race duration will depend on the start type. With Line or Rolling Starts the Race will run until the Race Leader completes the specified number of laps, then all other drivers will finish as they cross the line. The time specified is the maximum time for a race. If the time expires before the Cars finish, the race will be finished automatically. With Staggered Starts the Race Finishes when ALL drivers complete the specified number of laps, or the Time expires.


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Maximum Cars This limits the number of cars per race when races are generated automatically.

Start Type There are 5 Start Types Available. Line (First Pass Lap) Cars start together. The first time the cars pass the Autocount Loop they record a lap (Subject to Minimum lap Time setting). Line (First Pass Ignore) Cars start together. The second time the cars pass the Autocount Loop they record a lap (Subject to Minimum lap Time setting). The Line Start sequence is 10 pips at 1 second intervals, followed by a random delay followed by a warble. The Cars should start on the warble. If you are manually counting no manual counts are ever ignored, so you can set either of the above Line Starts and the press the keyboard when you want a car to record a lap. Staggered Start Practice and Heat Races Only. Cars start at regular intervals, typically 1 second. Their individual Race Clocks are started as they cross the Autocount Loop. If a car fails to start at its allotted time, you can force its Race Clock to start in either of 2 ways.

Auto Start Cars After You can Start its Clock a set time after it should have started (determined by its Grid Position and the Time from Start to Loop setting in the Track Dependant settings).

Or First Car Laps When checked, all cars that have not started have their Race Clocks started when the first of the started cars crosses the Autocount Loop. Rolling (First Pass Ignore) & Rolling (First Pass Lap) These are similar to Line Starts except there are no pips or random delay. The Race Starts instantly. Rolling Starts are suitable for IC Racing where the Starter decides when to start the race and the computer must be exactly synchronised. They are also suitable for starting races where the cars are rolling and ensure that any random delay does not allow cars to cross the line too early.


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Qualify You can set the Qualifying Rules for different types of Races. If you run Timed Practice you can create Heats based on Competitors Practice Times. There are several Qualifying types available. To get more information on particular qualifying rules available, select a rule and move the mouse over the Drop Down Control. An explanation of the Rule will be displayed for 20 seconds or until you move the mouse of the control. If the Hint disappears before you have finished reading it, just move the mouse off the control and back on again for another 20 seconds. For details of Qualifying formats that are available in bbkRC see Appendix A, Race Formats Supported.

Grid There are a number of Grid Options. You can also set a fixed grid for Round 1 for the Grids that are based on previous recorded times. For details of Grid formats that are available in bbkRC see Appendix A, Race Formats Supported.

Settings for Finals Races Race Duration

You can set different Race Durations for A, B, C and D Finals and all remaining Finals.

Legs You can set the numbers of Final Legs for A, B, C and D Finals and all remaining Finals. You can Set 1, 2 or 3 Leg Finals.

Rules These Rules govern how 3 Leg Finals are scored. For details of Rules formats that are available in bbkRC see Appendix A, Race Formats Supported.

Track Dependant Settings The following settings are track dependant. If you have the Multi Track Option, you can set values for all your Tracks.

Minimum Lap Laps quicker than this will not be recorded. If a car records a lap quicker than this time, the Early Lap sound occur and the Car Number will appear in the “Last Passings” display with e appended to it.

Maximum Lap If a car fails to record a lap within Maximum Lap, it will be marked “Lost”. When Race Time expires, Lost cars are immediately finished.


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Maximum Last Lap Once Race Time has expired, cars still running have the Maximum Last Lap to complete their last lap, starting from when they completed their previous lap. If they fail to complete their last lap in this time, they will be marked as finished at the time they completed their previous lap.

Time Between Races The time between consecutive race starts is the Race Duration plus the Time Between Races. Race start times are not influenced by the variable time a particular race takes from Race Time expired to Race Over.

Time from Start to Loop Set this to the time it takes for cars to get from their starting position to the Autocount Loop when using Staggered Start.

Lap Length This setting is not currently used.


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6 Entering Competitors into a Meeting To enter a Competitor into a Race or Meeting, you must select a Driver, a Car and a Race Class. You cannot enter a Driver more than once into a particular Race Class.

Minimum Requirements for Selecting a Competitor Selecting a Driver

To select a driver you can enter part of their name or Club ID. As you enter characters, a dropdown list will appear listing all the Drivers that have names or Club Ids that match what you are typing. You can select an entry from the Drop Down list using the Mouse or by typing Tab, locating the Driver using the Up/Down arrow keys and pressing Enter when the required Driver is selected. If you type enough characters so that there is only one driver that matches, that Driver will be automatically selected. With practice you will be able to select determine the minimum numbers of characters to enter to locate an individual Drivers with only a few key strokes. If the required Driver has not yet been entered into the Driver

Database, press the key to make a new Driver and Car. Selecting a Car

If the Driver has more than 1 car, you can select the required car

using the Drop Down. You can make new Cars for Drivers or

Delete Cars . You can also press Ctrl-C to make a new Car. Selecting a Race Class

Use the drop down to select a Race Class for the Competitor. If you are entering several Competitors into a Meeting, this entry is saved between successive Competitors, so once set you don’t need to re select this each time. If you are adding a Competitor to a Race, the Race Class is set to match the Race’s Race Class.

Additional Settings for Competitors Entry Status

You can set this to indicate the entry status. This is useful when entering Competitors prior to Race Day.

Paid You can use this to keep track of who has paid their entry fee.

Competitor details The details in the lower part of the form are loaded from the Driver & Car Database. You can change these if you wish. When you save the Competitor entry, you will be asked if you want these changes saving back to the Driver Database.


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Is Member Indicates if the Driver is a Member and the Club ID. You can change the Membership Status, but not the Club ID.

Nat # This is for a Driver’s National Number. If you want to store BRCA Number, don’t use National Number. There is a special section for BRCA membership information.

BRCA # This is for the Driver’s BRCA Number.

Ability This is a number 1-15 or blank. The higher the number, the higher the ability. You will be able to automatically set this ability based on driver performance. Blank is a lower ability than 1. Ability can be used to sort Competitors into Races.

Formula Range F5-F1 and Blank. F1 is high, F5 is low. Blank is lower than F5. Formula can be used to sort Competitors into Races.

Roof Colour This is based on the Stock Car Roof Colour system. Roof Colour can be used to sort Competitors into Races using the Stock Car Ability mixing rules.

Driver Type You can set up Driver Types to whatever you want. You can add new Driver Types or rename existing Driver Types. To add or rename a Driver Type, right mouse click over the Driver Type “box”. Select the appropriate item from the Popup Menu.

Team You can set up Teams to whatever you want. You can add or rename a Team in a similar way to that for Driver Type.

Car Manufacturer This is selected using the Drop Down to the right of Car name. You can Add or Rename cars by right mouse clicking over the Drop Down.

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Transponder Type & Transponder This is only available if you have Autocount Support. The car can be assigned No Transponder or AMBrc. If you select AMBrc you should assign a Personal Transponder. If the PT has already been used with your system it may well be in the Database. If so type part of the number or nickname and it will appear in the dropdown. You can then select it. If not you can make a new entry

for that transponder by pressing the Button. This will show the New Transponder Form. Enter the Transponder Number and Save. If after you have entered the 7 digit transponder number, number box remains red, that transponder was already in the system. Press Cancel and enter the transponder number. If you assign a Transponder that is already “owned” by another car, you will be warned and given the option to remove the PT from the other car.

Crystals The car’s crystals are shown in a box. To allocate new crystals check “Show All Available Crystals” and select the Tab for the Crystal band required. The available crystals are shown in yellow and the Car’s Crystals are shown in Green. To select a crystals

double click with the mouse over the crystal. To remove an assigned (green) crystal, double click it. One of the assigned crystals can be the preferred crystal, shown underlined. To selected an

assigned crystal as preferred, select it and right mouse click. Click

on the Popup menu and the selected crystal will be the preferred crystal. In the above example T685 is the driver’s preferred crystal. You can select which crystal bands you want to make available. For details see the Chapter on RC Crystals.

Saving Competitors When you Save a Competitor, if anything has been changed you are invited to save that change back to the Driver and/or Car Entry. Some changes may be for this meeting only and so do not need to saved for future use.


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Automatically sorting Competitors into Races

Make Races You can sort the Competitors into Races using the Make Races button. You can choose to assign them to Races based on Ability, Formula and Roof Colour or you can assign them based on their qualifying order in previous races. For Instance you can sort Competitors into Practice Races based on ability, run one or more rounds of Practice then sort them into

heats based on their Practice results. When assigning Competitors into races by ability you can set the crystal allocation to avoid the same crystal being used in consecutive Races. Note that there is no check between the first and last Race. You may also find that there are Competitors in the last Race that have no available crystal. When using ability based sorting, if Ability and Formula are chosen, Formula takes precedence over Ability. An F2 Competitor of Ability 5 is considered higher ability than an F3 Competitor of Ability 9. If you just want Ability based sorting, don’t check Formula. Copy Exactly from…….. If you run a meeting with Timed Practice you may decide to run the Heats with the same drivers as Practice. During Practice you may well make changes to Competitor details. Once Practice is over you can make the Heats from the Practice races. It may also be the case that you have prepared Heats before a meeting and decide on the day to run some Timed Practice. You can make the Practice Races from the Heats you have set up. When you make the Races, if there are already Races of that type you will be warned that you are about to overwrite them and you will have the opportunity to cancel if you have made a mistake.


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7 Exploring Races The Exploring Races facility lets you create and delete races (Practice Races, Heats and Finals) and move Competitors between Races. You can move Competitors before races have been run and after races have been run. If you find after round 1 that a competitor is in the “wrong” race, you can move him and all times that have been scored will move with him.

The upper part of the screen shows a particular race and the lower part of the screen has a view of all races, this case Heats. The bottom Right area is for “Held” and Auto booked in” Competitors.

Race View Drivers Tab

Shows the Competitors in car number order. You can change Competitor name and other details. Left Mouse Click on the detail you want to change.

Results Tab This is only available if the race has been run. Shows the Competitors in Result order. You can alter the results by applying penalties or overtyping the result. The format to enter results is as you see them, laps followed by ‘/’ followed by time. You can enter the time in seconds or hours, minutes and seconds. The default is seconds.


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Lap Times This is only available if the race has been run.

Race Analysis This is only available if the race has been run.

Race View Toolbar

Races View Race Parameters

Colour Coding of Races

The Race Name will be either in White, Green, Red or Yellow. White indicates that the race is complete and there are no competitors that require inspection. Green indicates that there are spaces available fro more competitors. The number of places available is indicated in parenthesis after the race name. Red indicates that one or more competitors require attention. Either there is no available frequency or transponder. Yellow indicates that one or more competitors crystals have been altered from that previously in use. The most common reason for this is a frequency change from Heats to Finals.

Locating a Competitor

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8 Running Races

To run races, press and you will see a pop-up window listing all race types with the race types that are available in bold. Select the race type required and the left hand pane of the main window will be loaded with the Race Screen. While the Race Screen is active, you can not change any meeting details or change meetings. If you need to do this you can close the races by pressing

the button on the Race Toolbar. The Race Screen is divided into 4 Sections.

Race Header

This shows the current Race details. You can hide this section by

pressing on the Toolbar. If hidden you can restore this section

by pressing . The Hidden state is stored separately between and while races are running. You might choose to see this section between races and hide it during races.

Race Information

This shows the currently selected race. The competitors are listed in their grid order. There are multiple information columns associated

with the Competitors. You can show and hide them as described in Chapter 2. The first 4 columns are protected from being hidden. During the period before a race starts, if you have an auto count system cars crossing the line will record “Warmup” laps. This indicates that their auto count device is working. During the race, the competitors are shown in Race Order at all times. Right Mouse clicking a Competitor allows

penalties and corrections, best results display and the Font and Size for this section to be set. Left Mouse Clicking a competitor’s crystal displays all other

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Race Progress Race Progress is shown as a time, either increments or decrementing and also a “progress bar”. The time is shown in white during the countdown to a race, in Green during a race, in Yellow after race time has expired (Staggered Starts Only) and in Red when the competitors are finishing their final lap.

Secondary Race Information

The secondary Race Information section can display the lap table during a race, a viewer for any race other than the current race and the “live qualifying” based on current, or during a race, estimated results. The lap table builds up as the race progresses, with the fastest lap shown with a yellow background. Left mouse clicking a lap time shows the details of the signal qualify and clock time that the lap was recorded.

The Race Results viewer is loaded with the results of the race that has just finished. If the recorded time is the Competitor’s best, it is displayed with a silver background. A right mouse click on a Competitor allows penalties and corrections to be applied or removed and also allows the Font style and size for this View to be set. As each race finishes it is automatically displayed in this section. You can select any race from the Race Schedule

screen for display. Live Qualifying is based on the qualifying format set in the Race Class profile. The Race Information and Secondary Race Information views can

be shown side by side or one above the other by using the or

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The Race Schedule shows the Races that have been run and that are still to be run. indicates that a race has been run and indicates that the race is the next selected to run. When running in Auto

Mode all races not yet run have the scheduled start time listed. As soon as you start Heats in Auto Mode you know what time the last Heat will start. When trying to fit in a lot of racing this is useful. Right Mouse Clicking a Race

allows various operations to be performed on the Race. Transponder Signal Information Controlling Races

Races can be manually started and abandoned if necessary. Races can be run in automatic mode, with an inter race gap specified in the Race Class profile. The starting Heat number in each Round can be specified (in the Meeting) so the last heat in each round varies. This is sometimes required in Round By Round qualifying. Pressing

activates Auto Mode. The countdown to the start of the first race can be set using the drop down control to the right.

Race Toolbar Controls

Mode Selector The mode selector can be used to change from Auto Mode to Manual Mode. If a race is running, the race will complete. If you switch from Manual Mode to Auto Mode the Race Schedule will be resumed. If the race start is less than 30 seconds away, the countdown clock will be reset to 30 seconds. This is to ensure the start does not take everyone by surprise (if it was only a few seconds away.

Unknown Transponder Action This controls the action to be taken when an unexpected transponder is detected. This is most useful when AMBrc Personal Transponders are in use. If an unknown Transponder is detected, a New Competitor entry is created in the Race. Any existing competitor can be assigned to this Transponder, and if it is a Personal Transponder, it can be permanently assigned to that car in the Driver & Car Database and the other races in the current Race Type. It the Transponder is a Group Transponder, the Transponder assignments for other races in the current group are not changed. The reason for this is that if a particular number transponder is not available at the start of the race, the time keeper can advise the competitor to use an available number for that race, but revert to the correct transponder for subsequent races, when it is located. Any times recorded by an unknown transponder that has not been allocated to a Driver by the end of the race are discarded. Note that


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at the end of a race, if competitors continue to cross the Autocount detection loop, they will record Warm-up laps for the next race.

Frequency Scanner A Frequency Scanner is available to identify competitors on any

frequency. Click on the area to the right of . A Frequency Selection dialog appears. Select the frequency to scan and then

press and all Competitors on the selected Frequency will

be shown. Clear Unknown Transponders This clears all competitor entries for unknown transponders. Clear Warm-up Laps This clears warm-up laps. Warm up laps are for information only.


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9 Running a Series Making a New Series Updating Round Scores Updating Individual Competitor Information


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10 Publishing Results to the Internet Driver Details Competitor Details Practice Race Details Heat Details Finals Data Meeting Summary Series Data Meeting Index Race Results Index HTML Setup


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11 Maintaining Driver’s Ability View End of Round


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12 Open Practice Open Practice is provided so that lap times can be recorded in an ad-hoc way. The features available in Open Practice are dependant on the License in use.

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13 RC Crystals The Frequency bands are set up in System Setup | Setup Options.

Provision has been made in bbkRC for up to 10 separate RC frequency bands. These bands can be modified to suit local requirements. The Bands that are pre configured are: European 27Mhz 12 Channels 26.975-27.225 Extended European 27Mhz 16 Channels 26.865-27.225 USA 27Mhz 6 Channels 26.995-27.225 UK 40Mhz 34 Channels 40.665-40.995 Euro 40Mhz 19 Channels 40.665-40.935 Far East 40Mhz 20 Channels 40.610-40.990 USA 75Mhz 30 Channels 75.410-75.990 French 41Mhz 21 Channels 41.000-41.200 Swiss 35Mhz 23 Channels 35.000-35.220 Far East 29Mhz 27 Channels 29.725-29.985 You can add extra channels to any of these bands. You can also specify the minimum channel separation, so you can set UK 40Mhz to 20Khz spacing. If you have a mixture of UK 40Mhz and Far East 40Mhz crystals in use at a meeting, the crystal allocation will maintain the required minimum channel separation, so 40.675 and 40.670 could not be used in the same race. As you will only normally be using a small number of the above bands, you can select which ones should be available.


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Selecting Required RC Frequency Bands The Tabs in Bold are the Selected Bands that will appear in the Crystal Box Control. To Select a Band for Display, select it’s Tab and Check Enabled.

Adding and re Assigning RC Channels To add a new Channel, right click the List Box containing the Channels and select Add. A new channel will be added to the list. Enter a name and a frequency. You can rename any channel and change it’s frequency. Left mouse click on the Name of Channel to alter it. There is provision for up to 64 channels per band.

Marking RC Channels Unavailable If you are sharing a venue with other RC users, you might agree to not use a particular group of channels. You can set a channel to be avoided by left mouse clicking in the Avoid column.

Setting Minimum Channel Separation If you want to ensure that adjacent channels are not used together, you can increase the Band Width for a particular band. For example, the UK 40Mhz band has channels at 10Khz intervals. The Bandwidth is ± 5Khz. To increase the minimum separation to 20Khz, set the Bandwidth to ± 10Khz. When checking for crystal clashes, each frequency is check to ensure that bandwidths do not overlap.

Save or Cancel changes If you make any of the above changes, you need to press the

button to save them. If you want to discard the changes

press the button.

Resetting Default Bands & Channels You can reset all Crystal information to the original setting when you first installed bbkRC. If you do this you will overwrite all the changes that may have been made and you cannot discard these changes. There is a Safety Net dialog to allow you to cancel this action.


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14 Autocount Systems and Transponder Management You can use AMB20 and AMBrc Autocount Systems with bbkRC.

Setting up AMB20 The AMB20 system should be connected to a serial port on your PC. If you do not have a serial port on your PC you must install one. This interface must either be a card in a desktop PC or a PCMCIA Card in a Laptop. The USB-Serial adapters that are available will not work satisfactorily with AMB20. The passing messages will arrive late and will result in errors in recorded times. The AMB PC Interface cards will not work with any of the Windows system supported by bbkRC. To use an AMB20 Decoder, set the Autocount Device to AMB20 in the Meeting. You will see the left most panel on the Main Screen display AMB20 with a red background. Start the Practice Session and the

background should change to green. If this is not the case you will have to use Equipment | Test Autocount Equipment to select the correct Serial Port. Most PCs only have 1 serial port and bbkRC is set to use this one by default.

Using Test Autocount Equipment with AMB20 Run Equipment | Test Autocount Equipment.

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different types of Decoders. When searching for AMB20 Decoders all Com ports will be checked and those with an AMB20 Decoder connected will be listed in the Drop Down Control. Select the

required Port and press . You will see Heartbeat Messages in the Messages List box, showing that the Decoder is working correctly. If you pass Transponders over a loop connected to the AMB20 Decoder, you will see Passing Messages appear. You

can stop the AMB20 Decoder by pressing . The Com Port you selected has now been selected for use with AMB20 Decoders. If you always use the Decoder on this port, there is no need to use this Test utility again.

Edit/Explore Transponders with AMB20 Run Equipment | Edit View/View Transponders. An entry is made for each transponder number and the number of passing is recorded against each number, along with other information. As the AMB20 Decoder cannot distinguish between transponders with the same number this information is not particularly useful. It is primarily intended for AMBrc Decoders.

Setting up AMBrc You can connect an AMBrc Decoder to a Serial port of a USB 2.0 port. The decoder can be powered from the USB 2.0, 1.1 or 1.0 Port. If you have a USB 1.0 or 1.1 Port you will need to use a Serial port for data transfer. If you intend to use the USB Port for Power or Data you will need to install the USB Driver supplied by AMB IT. For your convenience it is included with the bbkRC CD in directory: USB It is also available as a Download from the AMB IT website, www.amb-it.com.When you first connect the AMBrc Decoder to you PC USB Port, Windows will ask for the location of this Driver. If you do not have a USB 2.0 port or serial port on your PC you must install one. This interface must either be a card in a desktop PC or a PCMCIA Card in a Laptop. The USB-Serial adapters that are available will not work satisfactorily with AMBrc. The passing messages will arrive late and will result in errors in recorded times.

Using Serial Ports for Data To use the AMBrc Decoder, set the Autocount Device to AMBrc in the Meeting. You will see the left most panel on the Main Screen display AMBrc with a red background. Start the Practice Session and the background should change to green. If this is not the case you will have to use Equipment | Test Autocount Equipment to select the correct Serial Port. Most PCs only have 1 serial port and bbkRC is set to use this one by default.


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Using USB Ports for Data To use the AMBrc Decoder, set the Autocount Device to AMBrcUSB in the Meeting. You will see the left most panel on the Main Screen display AMBrcUSB with a red background. Start the Practice Session and the background should change to green.

Using Test Autocount Equipment with AMBrc Run Equipment | Test Autocount Equipment.

The initial action will be to search for AMB Decoders. Once the initial search completes, you can select an alternative Tab for different types of Decoders. When searching for AMBrc Decoders all Comports will be checked and those with an AMBrc Decoder connected will be listed in the Drop Down Control. When an AMBrc Decoder is found, the Firmware and Software version information is displayed in the Message Listbox. In the above example, Decoder Firmware is V2.0 and the Software Version is V2.01, release date 27 September 2001. If you are using the Serial port for Data, select the required Port and

press . You will see Heartbeat Messages in the Messages List box, showing that the Decoder is working correctly. If you pass Transponders over a loop connected to the AMBrc Decoder, you will see Passing Messages appear. You can stop the

AMBrc Decoder by pressing . If the AMBrc Decoder is connected to a Serial Port for Data, the Com Port you selected has now been selected for use with AMBrc Decoders. If you always use the Decoder on this port, there is no need to use this Test utility again.


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Edit/Explore Transponders with AMBrc Run Equipment | Edit View/View Transponders. An entry is made for each transponder number and the number of passing is recorded against each number, along with other information. Transponders can be entered manually. When a new transponder is detected by bbkRC an entry is made automatically. Transponders entered automatically are set to Type AMBrc PT.

Transponder # The seven digit number stamped on the Transponder.

Nickname Nicknames are used to help identify Transponders owned by the Club

Owned by Club Indicates that a transponder is Club Owned. Some Clubs own Personal Transponders and loan them to members, either on the night of for a longer term.

Type Transponder Type, can be AMB20, AMBrc PT (Personal transponder) or AMBrc Group. Group Transponders are usually Rechargeable Transponders and the Group ID is usually the last Digit.

Group This control is visible only when the Transponder Type is AMBrc Group. Select the group that this transponder is to be a member of.

Trip Condition Count Data This provides a short-term log of transponder signal quality. Like

the Trip odometer on a car, pressing the button next to this data resets these counters.

Total Condition Data This provides a long-term log of transponder signal quality.

Date New This is set to the Date that the Transponder was first recoded.


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Date Last Used The date the Transponder was last used is recorded. This helps keep track of the usage of transponders owned by the Club

Last Bad Battery pressing the button to the right of this control clears this date.

Assigned To: This control will list the Driver and Cars that a Personal Transponder is assigned to. You can assign the following items of information to selections of Transponders: Group, Ownership, Colour and Last Bad Battery.

AMBrc Transponder Management If you have Rechargeable Transponders, you use this utility to assign them to groups. You can assign a number of Transponders to a group and when a Competitor’s Car is assigned a transponder in a Group, any Transponder that is part of that Group can be used. If you have 2 x 10 Rechargeable Transponders you would normally assign 2 to each of groups T1 – T10. You could equally well assign 1 transponder to groups T1 – T20, so you could run 20 car races.

Assigning Groups & Colours to Transponders If you have Rechargeable Transponders the easiest way to set them up is as follows: Set up the AMBrc Decoder and start Open Practice. Pass a complete set of 1 colour transponder over the loop so they are detected. Start Edit/View Transponders. You will see the Transponder numbers on the screen. Select all Transponders (Left mouse click one transponder then press Ctrl-A). Right Mouse click over the selected area and you will see the Popup menu. Select the first item “Auto Assign to Group”. Each of the selected Transponders will be set to the group from its last digit. Now select all the Transponders again and this time select “Set Colour Group”. Repeat this for any others sets you have, but only select the “new” transponders. The easiest way to do this is to segregate the Transponders using Group by: “Owned by” and select the Driver Tab. This will show all the new transponders

Assigning Ownership to Transponders If you have Personal Transponders that belong to the Club by setting the Owned By Club checkbox you can keep track of them. Club Owned PTS are shown in Green and Driver owned PTs are shown in Yellow.


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Assigning Nicknames to Transponders To further aid identification, you can allocate a Nickname to a Transponder. If you have Club owned PTs that are handed out on the night to drivers, it is easier to assign them to a competitor by typing “c100” than looking at the number on the PT. The Nickname will also be shown on Printouts and the Screen again assisting identification.


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15 Scoreboards


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16 Printing Setting up Printing Formats


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17 Sound and Speech


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18 Initial Screen Options


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19 DRIVERnet


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Appendix A Race Formats Supported The formats for Qualifying, Grid and Racing are based on common styles of racing. By mixing and matching you can arrange the set the type of racing you require.

Qualifying Formats Best 2 Times

Best Single Lap

BRCA 1/10th Off Road Round Points

BRCA Rallycross Round Points

BRCA Large Scale

Single sided Christmas Tree based on FTQ, with 2 Competitors promoted from each Race. For details on the promotion process see Chapter 7, Exploring Races.

EFRA Large Scale Double sided Christmas Tree based on FTQ, with 3 Competitors promoted from each Race. For details on the promotion process see Chapter 7, Exploring Races.

FTQ

Reedy Race of Champions

STCC Super Pole

STCC Triple Sprint

Total Times

Grid Formats You can set the Grid Rules for Practice and Heats. Grids for Finals are based on qualifying order and the racecar number reflects this.

Best Lap Grid Order is based on a Competitors best lap time in the current Race type (Practice, Heats etc).

Best Time Grid is based on a Competitors best time in the current Race type (Practice, Heats etc).


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BRCA 1/8th Circuit Assuming 10 cars, the grid is: 3 Rounds 4 Rounds 1-10 for Round 1 1-10 for Round 1 4-10 and 1-3 for Round 2 3-10 and 1-2 for Round 2 8-10 and 1-7 for Round 3 6-10 and 1-5 for Round 3 8-10 and 1-7 for Round 4

BRCA RallyCross Grid is based on a Competitors current overall qualifying position in the current Race type (Practice, Heats etc).

Last Race Grid is based on a Competitors time in the previous Race in the current Race type (Practice, Heats etc). This is in effect the previous Race finishing order.

Random Grid is calculated at random.

Reedy Assuming 10 cars, the grid is: Grid Round 1-10 1 2-10, 1 2 3-10, 1-2 3 ………………….. 9-10, 1-8 9 10, 1-9 10

Round 1 Grid for Best Lap, Best Time and Last Heat The Grid Order for Round 1 can be Car Number Order (e.g. 1-10) or a pre defined number order. This can be based on numbers drawn at random during Driver’s Briefing and ensures that Competitors Car numbers cannot be “arranged”.

Race Formats for Multi Leg Finals BRCA 1/10th Off Road

Club Rules


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Index Christmas Tree

Double Sided, 48 Single Sided, 48

Crystals Adding & re Asigning RC Channels,

36 Marking RC Channels Unavailable,

36 Resetting Default Bands &

Channels, 36 Selecting Required Frequency

Bands, 36 Setting for Competitor, 26 Setting for Driver, 17 Setting Minimum Channel

Separation, 36 Setting prefered, 26

Grid Formats Best Lap, 48 Best Time, 49 BRCA 1/8th Circuit, 49 BRCA RallyCross, 49 Last Race, 49 Random, 49 Reedy, 49 Round 1 Default, 49

Make Races, 27 Qualifying Formats

..Setting of, 22 Best 2 Times, 48 Best Single Lap, 48 BRCA 1/10th Off Road Round

Points, 48 BRCA Large Scale, 48 BRCA RallyCross Round Points, 48 EFRA Large Scale, 48 FTQ, 48 Reedy, 48 STCC Super Pole, 48 STCC Triple Sprint, 48 Total Times, 48

Race Formats Multi Leg

BRCA 1/10th Off Road, 49

Simple Rules, 49

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