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Originally Posted by Koko Ed
I thought FIRST banned radios and cell phones from the field so you couldn't get additional coaching from someone in the stands.
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Originally Posted by MooreteP
Koko is Korrect.
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True, but 3.17 bans walkie-talkies completely, not just for coaching.
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Originally Posted by EricH
FIRST staff and venue staff have radios, operating on various frequencies and channels. Now, some random team accidentally gets onto, say, the FTA's channel or the Pit Admin's channel, or, worse, the channel used by the production folks. Can you imagine the rumor mill that could be triggered? I don't want to. And that's assuming they don't try to talk on the radio to the aforementioned people.
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Several years ago the FLL team used walkie-talkies to communicate at events when needed. So the girls decided to use them to talk between cars as we traveled home from the event. They had a nice conversation with the Home Depot stocker as we passed by ...