The arena was 75% completed when I left Kettering today.
Gas and seating arrived
1st Roboteers have also arrived and were put immediately to work.All were smiling and looking forward to the event.
LOL, roboteers not working untill early hours the night before? whats going on there then!!!!!!!!!!!!
James and I are still slaving away on our robots, with lots of work to do. Hopefully it will be ready for painting tomorrow evening. Still soldering, making selfrighter work properly, making sure things work and trying to get more than a few feet of signal! Just ran a coax wire through the inside of the bot and linked to the negative inside the receiver and i looks promising, but i need to get rid of the whole ariel and attach it to a boat arial lol.
Hi guys
Can somebody please give us a lift from our hotel to the event on the day we arrive , and perhaps a lift eveymorning to the event and back to the hotel in the evening ?
We will be at Kettring train station on Thursday at 2:30pm but will get a taxi to the hotel . Is it ok if i come on the thursday just to check everybody out ?
Its difficult enough that my mother cannot drive but its even worse when you are in an unknown country
LOL at Ewan! LOL!
Alistair you are more than welcome to come any day you wish to see how it is and so on. As its been stated, you will not be allowed in the PITS on a day your note competeing due to safety and room and so on. But there is a roboteers only area for watching the fights which you are more than welcome to bee there, see what its all like and watch.
Like i said i wont be there all week until Saturday/Sunday due to working in other areas of Roaming Robots at the moment, in hotel at mo half way across the UK.
I was at Kettering on Sunday to help, well stand and point lol coz i was tired from long driving.
Last i spoke to Jonno, a judge for the heats has not been organise yet, well it was but problems always arise. But for Saturday and Sunday when things are more important - i think the general word on the street at the camp was ill be the judge during the Quarted and Semi and Grand Finals.
Good luck to everyone in your heats, have fun in the tamed arena, wait till i get hold of it on the weekend. Im sure ill see all the fights that David Young and Dave Findlay are filming when i get hold of the footage when creating/editing the 2006 UK Championships DVD, so i wont miss your heats.
Mr Stu
Heavyweight ready to go, and 3 days early
im still at the workshop, just welded up the self righter. problems with signal are still there, i cant get more than a few metres of range using duel conversion!! hopefully sorted it out in the next 3 hours before i leave
Antenna too short? Antenna under metal? No caps on motors?
Do you have dual conversion crystal in the receiver?
yep, im running coax through the whole inside - then a boat arial on the outside. The coax is also grounded to the negative of the receiver!
I am using duel conversion crystals and the transmitter is often used in my plane so that deffinatly has good range, the receiver is used in the RoboKits and deffinatly works fine :sad:. My DX6 should have come by now but it hasnt! Im going to go and make an aluminium case around the receiver and put it right next to the outer arial and hope that helps.
How long is the r/x wire in total? r/x wire coming out of the r/c + coaxial then into the boat ariel base.
We have the same setup in Turbulence and we made the length between the r/x and boat ariel mount 1/4 wave length and its worked fine.
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