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The Beginning of Innovative Race Scanners

Innovative Spectator Products (ISP), makers of RACEceiver, was founded in 2001 by Joe Vinson and Ken Pirkle. The company was founded based on the concept of making a smaller, more user friendly radio scanner for NASCAR fans.

Ken, who worked in two-way radio sales, had been a racing enthusiast all his life and was in tune with needs of race fans. Joe was in the paging and cellular phone sales business and had ventured into pager manufacturing. The pair met after the 2001 Daytona 500 and discussed the possibility of making a smaller, better scanner for NASCAR fans. A year later, RACEceiver was born.

Over the next 3 years, the company and the product improved through trial and error and a lot of hard work. In 2003, Joe met with H.A. “Humpy” Wheeler, President of Lowes Motor Speedway and pioneer of the Legend Car Series. The meeting produced lucrative business relationships and the idea to introduce the World’s Smallest Scanner to the drivers of the Legends racing series. This has allowed race officials to talk to the drivers for safety and efficiency purposes without having the drivers talk back. The plan was so successful that RACEceiver became the title sponsor of the Legends Series which opened the eyes of the racing fans and industry leaders to the value of the RACEceiver.

In 2004, the company’s sales grew substantially, and in 2005 the TruScan was introduced – a new model of the RACEceiver that truly meets the needs of all racing enthusiasts.

Today, Joe Vinson, who is now the sole owner of Innovative Spectator Products, continues to fuel the rapid growth of the company through new, innovative ideas for the racing industry.