Spotty Radio Communications!

[Mr. Lim]

Our robot communicates fine with our OI... for the most part.

but once every 30-40 seconds or so, the RC's Radio Modem light flashes red, and our robot disables for a split second (not noticeable by our drivers).

The only reason why we did notice this is we have some very fast pneumatics that suddenly switch states. Our disabled state is different from the state we normally run them in.

We noticed the problem worsens when we have two robots (with different team #s) running nearby.

I don't know if any other teams have experienced this, but basically, if you run your robot hard, and follow it around and watch the LEDs, you might notice the Radio Mode light blip red.

I don't know if this can be attributable to a noisy 900 MHz channel. We tried changing from channel 40 to 1, and it got marginally better, but it was still occuring. And yes, we changed our team number >2048 and tethered up to change the radio channel.

Are any other teams experiencing this? We had Team 1558 visit us, and they were experiencing the same problem in our practice facility, and we visited 1114's practice facility, and we experienced the same problem there.

I'm trying to figure out if this problem is more widespread than just us!

Thanks in advance!

-SlimBoJones...