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Old 10-15-2022, 11:44 PM
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Make your own tag clones for under $25.
Get the following from Amazon.
HENA 125KHz Card Programmer, Upgraded Handheld RFID Reader Writer Duplicator Copier
ARONGTECH 125khz rewritable T5577 Sticker Coin Adhesive Back Dia 25mm Thickness 1mm

You can read your own card and write coin sized chips.
This will work with all the gates in the villages and I used them to clone my card and tested it in many gates.
This sort of access card can be made secure with passwords encoded on the card during manufacture of the chip and by writing a password on the chip during initial programming. I don't think that this was done and maintained over the 20 years that these cards were issued. I guess we'll all know the answer to that question in a year or so when the project is done.