communication errors at national

[Dave Flowerday]

Originally posted by Matt Reiland
However after the match we noticed the next team in line had already hooked up their control system even though they weren't supposed to until after our match was over. Our theory was that this might have been on the same channel? Any one out there know if there are only two channels per side of the field or did we just have bad luck in this match?

Yup, I'll bet that's what happened. The radio modems we use are only capable of 40 channels. Divide by 4 (assuming they reused channels on Einstein since it was only used when the other fields were off) leaves you with 10 channels per field. The channels are close enough together that most likely Innovation First avoided assigning consecutive channels anywhere in the arena, so probably there were only 5 usable channels per field, which means that channels would have to be reused across the two sets of starting positions.

I don't know any of this for certain, but this seems logical.