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Originally Posted by Karibou
I'm not a programmer/electrical kind of person, but you might want to double-check (because I'm sure you've checked it a lot already) to make sure your radio is functioning properly, especially if you're using the same one from last year. Our radio from last year was having problems with losing comm any time it was jostled, which we figured out in week 4, so we ordered a replacement and haven't had any comm problems since.
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What Karibou said. Also, be sure your radio isn't mounted to something too rigid. There are some parts in the radio that don't stand up well to shock loads. We try to mount it to something that flexes so even when our robot gets a jolt, the jolt isn't directly translated into the radio. This year we have our radio mounted to one of our 1/8" sheets of lexan. There were a couple of teams last year that were breaking radios frequently. We convinced one of them to change the radio mounting and that solved the problem.