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We had a related RC experience at Nationals, but luckily the driver noticed it before going out on the field.
Either the slot we use for initialization had a corrupted communications statement or the Main driving program slot had a corrupted Serin statement.
Re-downloading the program without any changes corrected the problem and it didn't recur.

The same think happened at least once in January during program development. Otherwise, our downloads have been very reliable, but unfortunately, you can't depend on pBasic editor verification checks. I kind of doubt if it does a verification check at all, but if it does it's probably limited to checksums where two wrongs can make a right answer.
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