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Re: does anyone have OI and RC radio issues

WE were successful at correcting the problem that we were having last night..

Here is what we did:

1). We moved the antenna on the robot so that it is now as high as we could get it and made sure the antenna itself was totally vertical (perpendicular to the track).

2). The antenna unit was mounted to a metal vertical mast on our robot so we attached an "L" bracket to this metal mast and a piece of 1/2" plywood and attached the antenna to the plywood. The antenna is also cable tied to the plywood with a small piece of foam to cushion it and to keep it from touching metal.

3). We re-routed the data cable from the RC unit on the robot to the antenna unit so that is was not near any motors, victors or spikes.

With these three things we did not have one drop out condition all night long...

What a relief it is to clear that problem up... only a few more other problems to figure out.