It may be worth it to mention at the driver meetings for course workers to
be sure their radio is set to channel X. Starters could be instructed to
use Channel Y as they are checked off for work.
Just some brainstorming. How many radios are available for course work
anyway? There was no radio at my station (near the finish, between the
S-curve and finish lights) so I held any downed cone above my head for a few
seconds to hope somebody would radio it in. I doubt the motorhome crew
could have seen me over there.
Bryan Heitkotter
'87 MR2 - http://move.to/theMR2
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Thana, Peter {High~Palo Alto}" <PETER.THANA@Roche.COM>
To: "'Jim Ochi '" <jochi@ricochet.net>; "'Elbert Chin '" <lbc8@pacbell.net>;
<ba-autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 1:02 AM
Subject: RE: Trailer crew in 3rd heat
> 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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