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ir beacon range

we have the beacon and receiver code running, and everything seems to be working fine - the beacon output looks correct on an oscilloscope, and the code is running without errors, but the problem we are having now is that the receiver is only recognizing the beacon if the beacon is held directly in front of the receiver at a maximum range of about 4 inches. this is using just the default code, modified so that the beacon and reciever can run on the same frc (we dont have an edu controller). has anyone else run into this problem? ive noticed that most people have been having the problem of their sensors being too sensitive, so i dont know what our problem might be.