[ebarker]

Just for clarification I'd post the question on the official FIRST GDC FRC forum and ask if it is okay to replace the cables with ribbon cables.

For years we used ribbon cables from the IFI radio to the RCs. There is nothing technically wrong with that since it is 422, but some inspectors were uncomfortable with that and eventually last year the question was asked of the GDC and they ruled it must be the cables shipped in the KOP.

I didn't agree with their ruling but it is what it is and that was the rule.

So to make your life more comfortable in inspection, I'd ask the question of the GDC, and if positive, your students can take a printout with them to inspection.