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Why would an old football stadium be any different? Thanks for the insight!
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Not sure it would be, but my thought was that echoes from the whistle might be tricky. Also, in a regular arena, all of the electromagnetics are centered on the floor and bounded by the stands/walls, but in a football stadium the court is often offset around the 20 yard line with temp bleachers on one side, leaving the other half of the field dark and empty. Might be some interference or signal scattering from the timing pack's signal.
But there is probably an easy engineering solution or two to solve these problems, assuming they are even problems at all. |
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The clock is started by a push button, not the whistle. And like the stopping action, multiple start commands don't cause a problem. Interference, doubt it.
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It's the air from the whistle that stops the clock, not the sound of the whistle. You can blow directly into the microphone and the clock stops.
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I don't know the technology in use for this, but track and field starters can use a remote start sensor to start the clock. The way it works is it sends a signal that includes the time when the sensor was triggered. If the signal is missed by the receiving end, you press a button on the transmitter and it resends the time, effectively starting the clock retroactively.
If this works the similarly, it wouldn't matter which "echo" the receiver were to receive, it has a timestamp in the signal and can automatically adjust the clock to take that timestamp into account. |
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How the Systems Work The Precision Time Systems works via a radio transmitter in the belt pack worn by the officials. Attached to the belt pack is an omni directional microphone which docks in the microphone adapter on the lanyard just below the whistle. When an official blows the whistle, the belt pack recognizes the frequency of the FOX 40 whistle and sends a radio signal to the base station receiver that is connected to the scoreboard controller, stopping the clock at the speed of light. The Precision Time System not only stops the clock, it gives the official timer the ability to restart the clock, as well as each official. Each belt pack has a restart button, so the clock can be started from the floor, if necessary.
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Microphones detect sound, that's it. Blowing across the microphone opening at very close range to test them just happens to make a very loud sound across a wide spectrum of frequencies.....similar to the actual sound of the whistle.
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The microphone does detect air, actually the movement of air. Sound is a vibration that propagates as a typically audible mechanical wave of pressure and displacement, through a medium such as air, or water. Also, no air (or no medium), no sound propagation. I used to teach my middle school science students that if two astronauts were an inch apart on the surface of the Moon (no atmosphere), and yelled at each other at the top of their lungs, that neither would hear the other one (unless their space helmets were touching).
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I worked on a D1 floor this year and they let us use PTS. I got to learn a little about it cuz they had some problems setting it up and had to call the company to make sure the PTS was interfacing correctly with their clock system. The microphone diaphragm is calibrated to stop the clock when a certain pressure level is reached near the mic, not tuned specifically to the Fox 40 like I had previously thought. BNR was right, they test the mics by blowing on them and my guess it you could use any brand of whistle provided it was loud enough to trigger that noise threshold.
I don't know much about signal propagation from the wireless packs and it's performance in larger arenas but I would assume that wireless is omni-direction and the signal would have to pass the receiver before any signal echo would occur. |
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