W7ASU
2006 School Club Roundup Results

Despite being in just about the worst part of the solar cycle, the 2006 School Club Roundup was an excellent year for W7ASU. Participation was up (although it's never as high as we'd like it to be), as was our score. With Arizona being in the middle of a record drought, it was the first year that we weren't subjected to moisture, although we still experienced heat, cold, and record wind. (Fortunately for us, the R7 stayed up through it all!) Club members' schedules didn't permit us to work on Tuesday, causing Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday to be "use it or lose it" days in regards to the six hour rule. We were able to use all our time except on Friday, when the hour earlier termination of the contest, equipment failure, and poor propagation meant closer to 5 hours of operation. Thanks to the hard work and perseverance of KD7TQA, The State Press ran announcements about our event 3 of the 5 days, something they haven't done for us in years despite us filling out the paperwork! This allowed us to do a bit of extra recruiting as curious students and staff read the announcements and then dropped by to visit us.

The club continues its search for a space to set up a permanent station on campus. Until this happens, we rely on a large number of people in order to make events like the School Club Roundup happen. In particular, we'd like to thank KC7KFF for continuing to loan us their R7 antenna, Patrick O'Rourke, who allows us to use the SSV building for our temporary station during the week, and KC7EFP, who always loans us his equipment for the contest. Finally, we'd like to thank all the club members who dropped by to help make this event a success!

Summary Sheet

Soapbox

"Bouvet? Where the heck is Bouvet? Quick, someone wikipedia it!" KC7MOD on learning that the club had just worked a new country.

Time Operated: 23:07

Operators

	# of QSOs	% of QSOs	Op time	% of time	Avg QSOs/hr
KC7MOD (Nicholas)	380	66.4%	14:42	63.5%	25
KD7TQA (Mayra)	98	17.1%	04:33	19.6%	21
KC7EFP (James)	84	14.6%	02:55	12.6%	28
KD7VPG (Jenny)	7	1.22%	00:27	1.94%	15
KD7LGH (Carson)	3	0.52%	00:30	2.16%	6

Loggers

KC7MOD (Nicholas)
KD7TQA (Mayra)
KC7EFP (James)
KD7LGH (Carson)
KD7VPG (Jenny)

Set up/Tear down

KC7MOD (Nicholas)
KD7TQA (Mayra)
KC7EFP (James)
KD7VPG (Jenny)

Score

Individual Phone QSOs	472
Individual Digital QSOs	17
Club Phone QSOs	9
Club Digital QSOs	1
School Phone QSOs	68
School Digital QSOs	4
KA2NRR Phone QSOs	1
KA2NRR Digital QSOs	0

States Worked	46
Provinces Worked	6
Countries Worked	23

QSO Points	594
Multiplier	460

Final Score	273,240

QSO Band Distribution

Band	# of QSOs
15m	1 QSOs
20m	570 QSOs
40m	1 QSOs

Average Contest Rate

25 QSOs / Hour

State QSO Distribution

State	# of QSOs
Alabama	3
Alaska	9
Arizona	9
Arkansas	9
California	28
Colorado	6
Connecticut	2
Delaware	1
Florida	32
Georgia	11
Hawaii	0
Idaho	3
Illinois	19
Indiana	6
Iowa	9
Kansas	12
Kentucky	4
Louisiana	7
Maine	1
Maryland	8
Massachusetts	5
Michigan	21
Minnesota	8
Mississippi	2
Missouri	16
Montana	14
Nebraska	9
Nevada	0
New Hamshire	6
New Jersey	7
New Mexico	0
New York	16
North Carolina	16
North Dakota	2
Ohio	21
Oklahoma	17
Oregon	21
Pennsylvania	22
Rhode Island	0
South Carolina	7
South Dakota	4
Tennessee	8
Texas	64
Utah	2
Vermont	2
Virginia	10
Washington	38
West Virginia	6
Wisconsin	5
Wyoming	1

Total United States	529

Province QSO Distribution

Province	# of QSOs
Alberta	2
British Columbia	5
Manitoba	0
New Brunswick	2
Newfoundland	0
Nova Scotia	0
Ontario	9
Prince Edward Island	0
Quebec	2
Saskatchewan	2

Other Territories	0

Total Canada	22

DXCC QSO Distribution

DXCC	# of QSOs

Bouvet	1
Alaska	9
Argentina	1
Aruba	1
Bahamas	1
Belgium	1
Belize	1
Cayman Is.	1
Costa Rica	1
Cuba	1
Dominica	1
Dominican Republic	1
Fed. Rep. of Germany	1
French St. Martin	1
French Polynesia	1
Honduras	1
Japan	1
Lithuania	1
Puerto Rico	1
Serbia & Montenegro	1
Spain	2

Total DXCC QSOs	30