W7ASU
2005 School Club Roundup Results




Another School Club Roundup has passed. While we had fun as always, our members had a particularly hard time getting their schedules to align for operating purposes. As a result, we operated a record-low number of hours this year. While our score has suffered -- we'll be submitting an all-time low score, just a few 1000 points short of last year's score -- we feel it is a respectable score considering the short amount of time we worked and current propagation conditions.

The week was also excellent for recruiting. We encountered a large number of people interested in amateur radio, about half of which were already licensed! Perhaps amateur radio is undergoing a new surge of interest? We certainly hope so. Altogether we successfully recruited nine new members, many of whom we hope to see at our next event.

As always, thanks to all the club members who helped with this contest. A special thanks to KC7KFF for loaning us their antenna, and the new SSV Building Manager Patrick O'Rourke for accomodating us with space for the week. Also, thanks to all the SSV employees who dropped by to see what we were doing (turns our many of them are hams!). Some have seen us at this location for years and always wondered what we were doing. We haven't met a person from this building yet who isn't kind and cheerful to us!




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Time Operated: 15:35

Operators

# of QSOs
% of QSOs
Op time
% of time
Avg QSOs/hr
KC7MOD (Nicholas) 407 87.9% 13:25 86.0% 30
KC7EFP (James) 35 7.55% 01:27 9.30% 24
KB7FJN (Clint) 20 4.31% 00:43 4.59% 27
KD7TQA (Mayra) 1 0.21% 00:00 0.00% N/A

Loggers

Set up/Tear down

Score

Individual Phone QSOs 387
Individual Digital QSOs 9
Club Phone QSOs 10
Club Digital QSOs 0
School Phone QSOs 56
School Digital QSOs 0
KA2NRR Phone QSOs 1
KA2NRR Digital QSOs 0
States Worked 47
Provinces Worked 5
Countries Worked 18
QSO Points 472
Multiplier 375
Final Score 177,000

QSO Band Distribution

Band # of QSOs
15m 7 QSOs
20m 455 QSOs
40m 1 QSOs

Average Contest Rate

30 QSOs / Hour

State QSO Distribution

State # of QSOs
Alabama 9
Alaska 3
Arizona 7
Arkansas 8
California 23
Colorado 2
Connecticut 7
Delaware 1
Florida 29
Georgia 12
Hawaii 2
Idaho 6
Illinois 20
Indiana 10
Iowa 8
Kansas 8
Kentucky 6
Louisiana 3
Maine 2
Maryland 6
Massachusetts 8
Michigan 13
Minnesota 8
Mississippi 3
Missouri 11
Montana 7
Nebraska 12
Nevada 0
New Hamshire 0
New Jersey 4
New Mexico 0
New York 19
North Carolina 6
North Dakota 1
Ohio 12
Oklahoma 10
Oregon 10
Pennsylvania 18
Rhode Island 2
South Carolina 4
South Dakota 1
Tennessee 8
Texas 50
Utah 1
Vermont 1
Virginia 9
Washington 31
West Virginia 2
Wisconsin 11
Wyoming 3
Total United States 432

Province QSO Distribution

Province # of QSOs
Alberta 2
British Columbia 5
Manitoba 2
New Brunswick 0
Newfoundland 1
Nova Scotia 0
Ontario 2
Prince Edward Island 0
Quebec 0
Saskatchewan 0
Other Territories 0
Total Canada 12

DXCC QSO Distribution

Alaska 3
Bahamas 1
Belgium 1
Croatia 1
Costa Rica 1
Denmark 1
European Italy 1
Falkland Island 1
Finland 1
Hawaii 2
Macquarie Island 1
Moldova 1
Netherlands 1
Peru 1
Puerto Rico 1
US Virgin Islands 1
Total DXCC QSOs 19

Video


Gallery


KC7EFP fiddles with PSK-31 during a poor spell of propagation.

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