Actually, the FRS isn't a bad idea. As John Stimson said, we had the
problem of having two different radio channels, but an apparently random
assortment of course workers/grid workers/starter on each channel. Once a
group is running, that's not very easy to correct. At least the FRS is a
totally different radio, so you wouldn't accidentally hand one to a course
worker like you might with a regular walkie talkie set to the wrong channel.
Having said that, I think we managed to get fairly accurate cone counts in
group 5. As cone counter, I only heard half of the course workers on
channel 1, but it did seem like someone else in the trailer was listening to
channel 3 as well.
In the end the event ran quite smoothly thanks to the efforts of some great
event chairs.
Peter
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Ochi
To: Elbert Chin; ba-autox@autox.team.net
Sent: 1/30/01 9:55 PM
Subject: Re: Trailer crew in 3rd heat
At 08:50 PM 1/30/2001 -0800, Elbert Chin wrote:
>Here's my suggestion: why not have the starter and card sorter use FRS
>radios to communicate with each other?
Or, just run the normal radio on a different channel...
Jim
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