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Unread 05-12-2006, 15:35
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Re: possibility of collaborative scouting through LAN?

I have never seen rules regarding wirless LANs before.

We used one back in 2005 at the Arizona Regional; a scouting crew in the stands used a program to enter information, then submitted that information to a main file we had on a laptop in our pits. It also allowed us to use instant messaging between the stands and pit as a form of communication, instead of having to run a person up there everytime we needed someone or something.

We allowed other teams to view our data, but you needed the program we wrote to view it properly, so I don't know how many actually used it (we gave a few copies of the program out).

I would love to use this again; paper scouting is less prone to loss, but is (in my opinion) a lot more time consuming to extract information out of.
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