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We also recently hosted a pre-ship scrimmage on Sunday and had nothing but trouble.

Some findings:
(1) Changing the configuration of the radio doesn't take.
We found that just changing the configuration of the radio, like ssid and encryption was not enough. The only thing that worked was resetting the radio to factory defaults and setting the new configuration.

(2) Team radios misconfigured.
Even though we had a team member go to each team's pit, we didn't make a list of all teams and inspect and set each team's radio. When team's came to the field, a number of teams radio's were still wrong or set in AP mode.

(3) The new radios for this year have issues.
(3.a) This may be more of an issue for off-season configuration. In the scrimmage mode, we run with the radio in BRIDGE mode connecting to a single SSID to the field AP. We suspect that FIRST runs the competition with the radio in AP mode, we couldn't remember from last year and this year's configuration might change. We identified one radio that even though the switch was set to BRIDGE mode the radio was still operating in AP mode. This operation would disrupt the entire field.

(3.b) Another of the new radios when reset went into emergency web server mode, requiring the firmware to be downloaded. I couldn't find the new firmware on the FIRST KOP website, but another Team's mentor had a copy.