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Originally Posted by Doug Leppard
We didn't see the problem until we tested heavily this week. I think a lot of teams are having the problem but just don't see it yet.
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We just had our "pre-ship mini-meet" here in Central Texas, and we had a number of issues that were very, very strange - I would say they all could be related to the radio modems. It seemed as if when our robot got near our team coach, the robot would be very unreliable. In one event the drivers were pushing the joysticks to make the robot turn, but the robot suddenly became completely nonresponsive, though there was no indication on the LEDs that the radio was out.
Our shop just isn't large enough to do any kind of really decent radio modem tests, though we never had any problems in our shop with the OI and RC between 5 and 10 feet from each other or near our team coach or other sources of interference. This is making us very concerned, we've followed all the regular best practices specified by IFI but there were too many instances of radio unreliability this weekend.
-Danny