[N7UJJ]

At our scrimmage in AZ yesterday, there were several incidents of odd radio modem communications loss. Not sure why. It could be because of the radios but then again it can be battery problems, lose wiring, etc.

I think the real problem, for us anyway, is we don't trust the new radios because of all the bad reports. We kind of expect to see radio problems.

I would feel more confident if we were using the older radios. The problem with that, of course, is rookie teams do not have older radios, but veteran teams, who have been issued a radio set every year, have multiple sets and there should be plenty in the FIRST pool to provide everyone at competitions with a pre-2007 radio modem.

Actually, at competitions we only need 6 older radio sets, one for each robot competing. Another dozen or two for the teams in the queue and it seems the radio problem would be solved for this year.