Does anyone still use Onboard?

[prompter]

Onboard was a forerunner to DCC.Just wondered if anyone still uses it.

[Pruitt]

I've still got one.

I don't use it - I use the best DCC system there is -

NCE!

(I'm just kidding about that!!! It's simply my personal choice! Don't flame me!!!!)

[Don Gibson]

Yes. Those that bought it..

It was one of the forrunner's of DCC. The synthasized 'sound' was not as good as
d SOUNDTRAXX's.

[Anonymous]

I used Onboard for 15 years--it was great!. I am now in the process of converting everything over to NCE. I am especially impressed with DCC's running on dirty track. With Onboard, dirty track would eventually slow a locomotive down until it quit running. Doesn't happen with DCC- it just keeps running. Fantastic!

[Anonymous]

so how did OnBoard work? was it kind of like Dynatrol?

[Pruitt]

Onboard sent tones over the track (like a telephone), and the receivers decoded the tones and acted accordingly.

It was extremely sensitive to poor track contact, as nomac34 implied. I wound up putting Tomar sliding track contacts on my locos that were set up for Onboard.

Keller Engineering, the makers of Onboard, tried for a short time to "Fuse" their system with DCC, but they quickly disappeared from the scene.

DCC is magnitudes better than Onboard was.

Anybody want an Onboard system cheap?

[fmilhaupt]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Brunton


Anybody want an Onboard system cheap?

Nope, but I'm still looking for a used CTC-80 command station to use as a back-up for a buddy's layout until we can build the piece of equipment we need to make it acceptible to him to switch over to DCC...