good event, shame Alpha wasnt at its best but still did well. Well done RIP (again, you wait till next time :P)
Best food so far at an event!
115 flips in one fight, and we only used half the gas!
Just managed to pull myself out of bed :-)
First off a huge thank you to all of you (stus mentioned just about everyone i can think of).
We were overwhelmed and honered by the fantastic response right through from opnening applications to attend, to the event itself. Weve learnt a huge amount about running events on a bigger scale than we have before, and despite certain staff shortages (jas :-p ) I think we just about managed :-).
Were already in talks for an even bigger event next year, so things are looking good on that front. The last 2 Inspires and featherweight smashes have more than proved that Featherweights make great entertainment to a live audience, so, as Ewan said, we can hopefully look forward to a lot more featherweight events in the future.
All in all I had a great time, and hope you did too, and a big thanks for putting up with the various re-arrangements of some of the fights to accomodate for other machines having problems. Many thanks,
Eddy
another superb smash.
thanks to every one who came and all the antweight teams that made it here.
the event would have been brilliant had tx control not let it down. looking forward to doign the smash 05
Stu and Ed, thanks for having us. It was a great day out and I thourghly enjoyed it.
Mike.
Hang on a sec. Chris, what problem with TX control? as usual they were very efficent. If you are refreing to the frequency clash problems with the feathers, that was not their fault. May I sugest with all due respect that 1), Did the antweights check the frequency table on the featherweights.org site? (Please note that FRA rule 4.6 very clearly states that all teams MUST have AT LEAST 3 altenitive RX & TX crystal sets available) & 2) The ants take advantage of the altenitive frequency available under FRA rule 4.1 I quote..
Rule 4.1
All Featherweights, Lightweight, Middleweight, Heavyweight & Superheavyweight robots MUST use VHF frequency band 40 MHz..........Antweight robots are permitted to use the VHF frequency band 27MHz
Maybe when the ants share an event with other weights that they take advantage rule 4.1 In fact, I itend to propose that this be made a mandatory change to the rules at the next FRA meeting, as it would certainly be an easy way to eliminate the kind of problems we saw yesterday.
I done a report... see http://www.micro-maul.co.ukhttp://www.micro-maul.co.uk
Hey Hey - cool it.
It was not the ants fault.
FeatherWeights.org would like to and still are working very close with Ant Weights. We try and get the ant weights in the action and did so in the afternoon to keep the public happy, and we tried to make somthing big with the 3rd place play off and final of the Ant Weights.
Lets no point the blame at anyone - if anything it wmay have been my fault in placing TX control so far away from the ant weights. Something for us to fix for next year.
But the main mmm well not problem but ISSUE was that there was dobule the amount of ant weights this year, and 50% more feather weights. That was the problem.
also the other problem we have at our events which you dont get at normal Roaming Robots events, is that we had 2 arenas on the go with alot of robots. I think we did pretty damn well, and Angie at TX control was doing a great job, even more than she was asked, as she kept going to the ant weight area to get txs etc. She did a fab job.
please dont point blame at anyone - we all worked together in the end, and sorted the problem, something for us to learn from in the future. Chris that comment was out of order. it was not a big issue- just a delay on the Ant Weight fights. sadly we need the feathers running all the time as they Were the show. Ant Weights were filling in the spaces, and the ant weight roboteers understand that is what they are doing at a BIG event like that. hence why you only see about 6 ants at Roaming Robots events as there is no time for ants, its heavies and feathers in the big arena all the time.
But it went well, everyone was happy.
It went well, and we look forward to the 2005 event.
Mr Stu
http://www.FeatherWeights.org>
OK all,
Sorry, no offence intened to our antweight friends, it was just that I saw just how hard Angie was working, the poor girl didnt have chance to draw breath! (She was moaning that she only got to see one fight all day!!)
Like Stu, I Was just a little un happy with Chriss comment. Chris, Im quite happy to accept that it was badly worded rather than a direct complaint about TX cont.
I was thinking, Is there any merit in this question of ants using 27MHz when compeating at the same time as the 40MHz guys?
Im not an ant builder, but I would be more than happy to have your or any other ant builders opinions on how practical it would be.
Lets not allow a misunderstanding to spoil what was a bloody good event.
Im not sure if this is feasable but with regard to the antweights here are my thoughts.
1. There is no point in trying to get the ants onto 27mhz because most people have invested in 40Mhz equipment. Although I appreciate that some ants do run on 27Mhz.
2. The solution would be to ensure that all ants CAN change their crystals in say a couple of minutes.
3. For all roaming Robot and Featherweight.org events four frequencies could be allocated to the ants for the duration of the event. The same four frequencies would be used at every event in the future. Crystals could be made available by the event organiser.
I appreciate there are a few little hurdles to get over, like deciding what frequencies, and the issue over transmitters with single or dual conversion. But it should be a workable solution.
Any antweights who use 27Mhz could continue doing so, and those on 40megs could use the four standard issue crystals available at every event. (If they want to invested in their own set of the nominated crystals..thats their choice)
My suggestion is 40,685,785,885,& 985.
Antweight roboteers could continue using whatever frequencies they want at Antweight only events like the AWS.
Featherweight and Heavyweight roboteers would have to respect and avoid the above four frequencies in the future.
Any comments welcome.
Ian
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I meant to say 40.685,40.695,40.705,40.715
Ian
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