Re: Legality of "Walkie-Talkie" at the Championship
 

We used an app to communicate to our drivers and pit when we would be running around, as well as talk to our person on field for alliance selections. The app ran off of cell data and was useful for being able to keep in touch while roaming around to scout or strategist. When on field the drive team would simply unhook the headphones and put them in their pockets. During one match while we were stuck waiting for close to an hour it helped because we radioed our pit guys to bring us a new battery and the laptop charger.

Re: Legality of "Walkie-Talkie" at the Championship
 

OP is from Israel. My guess was that they were looking for a quick solution to accruing roaming cell charges. If they have GSM phones, there's probably a way to get US SIM cards, but I'm not sure how complicated a process that takes.

Re: Legality of "Walkie-Talkie" at the Championship
 

My team is from Mexico, what we do is buy US sim cards. There is a data plan that for 3 dollars a day gives you 200 MB and unlimited calls and texts.

Re: Legality of "Walkie-Talkie" at the Championship
 

a reeeeeeaaaaaaly long string

Re: Legality of "Walkie-Talkie" at the Championship
 

Like suuuuuper long.

Re: Legality of "Walkie-Talkie" at the Championship
 

In the past we've used two separate Chat Rooms in some app to coordinate travel, plans, match strategies, who's needed where, etc. I don't remember the app. One group was mentor-only, the other was students-only + the lead teacher. This year we did Google Hangouts with the same setup.

Make sure you bring a couple of phone charger cords to your pits.

This type of thing is imperative for away events, IMO.

Re: Legality of "Walkie-Talkie" at the Championship
 

"Walkie talkies" purchased by consumers typically operate on FRS and would not be on the same bands as the business radios used by event staff which may utilize protocols like MOTOTRBO operating on DMR bands.

Re: Legality of "Walkie-Talkie" at the Championship
 

Just find a ham op to turn into an Elmer ;)

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Re: Legality of "Walkie-Talkie" at the Championship
 

Make a flexible display on the back of your team shirts and display a large monochrome QR code. Then snap pictures of the code from the stands with your smartphone. Do that both ways and you have bidirectional delivery of information using visible light.

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