W7ASU
2007 School Club Roundup Results




This year, we were unable to come up with a sufficient number of volunteers with overlapping schedules to continue our seven-year tradition of operating on-campus, outside, underneath the balcony of the Student Services Building. Instead, we operated from club president KC7MOD's home station. Consequences of this decision included:
  1. We were neither able to recruit new members nor educate the general public about the benefits of amateur radio, the upcoming license changes, etc.
  2. Club member participation was reduced as a result of not being on-campus.
  3. We avoided the daily setup/tear down routine that costs us hours of labor.
  4. We didn't get wet when it rained (as it ALWAYS seems to do the week of the SCR!).
Propagation was the worst we have ever experienced during the SCR, causing us to submit our lowest score ever! Our original plan, to work 6 hours on Monday through Thursday and skip operating on Friday due to club member availability, was killed by horrible propagation from Monday through Tuesday afternoon. Propagation picked up to acceptable, but far from great, levels for roughly 24 hours before dropping off Wednesday afternoon. We took advantage of the better propagation and introduced the SCR to some of the hams that hang out on 80m -- after all, how many schools operate the contest at 07:00z? By Wednesday evening, our score was just slightly over what we had hoped to obtain the first day. Thursday's poor propagation meant CW operation for most of the day. Friday was better, but limited club member availability meant minimal operating strategy in order to reach the 24 hour time limit.




Summary Sheet

Summary Sheet

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Time Operated: 23:59

Operators

# of QSOs
% of QSOs
Op time
% of time
Avg QSOs/hr
KC7MOD (Nicholas) 216 61.5% 13:25 55.9% 16
KC7EFP (James) 88 25.0% 07:23 30.7% 11
WA7ZPU (Michael) 47 13.3% 03:11 13.2% 14

Loggers

Set up/Tear down

Score

Individual Phone QSOs 235
Individual Digital QSOs 68
Club Phone QSOs 4
Club Digital QSOs 5
School Phone QSOs 35
School Digital QSOs 4
KA2NRR Phone QSOs 0
KA2NRR Digital QSOs 0
States Worked 46
Provinces Worked 4
Countries Worked 16
QSO Points 428
Multiplier 279
Final Score 119,412

QSO Band Distribution

Band # of QSOs
15m 5 QSOs
20m 272 QSOs
40m 68 QSOs
80m 6 QSOs

Average Contest Rate

15 QSOs / Hour

State QSO Distribution

State # of QSOs
Alabama 4
Alaska 2
Arizona 5
Arkansas 2
California 34
Colorado 6
Connecticut 3
Delaware 0
Florida 12
Georgia 4
Hawaii 6
Idaho 4
Illinois 14
Indiana 6
Iowa 7
Kansas 0
Kentucky 3
Louisiana 9
Maine 1
Maryland 1
Massachusetts 1
Michigan 4
Minnesota 7
Mississippi 5
Missouri 5
Montana 2
Nebraska 4
Nevada 3
New Hamshire 0
New Jersey 1
New Mexico 1
New York 8
North Carolina 5
North Dakota 1
Ohio 1
Oklahoma 7
Oregon 19
Pennsylvania 8
Rhode Island 0
South Carolina 3
South Dakota 6
Tennessee 7
Texas 44
Utah 2
Vermont 1
Virginia 8
Washington 28
West Virginia 1
Wisconsin 5
Wyoming 3
Total United States 305

Province QSO Distribution

Province # of QSOs
Alberta 8
British Columbia 10
Manitoba 3
New Brunswick 0
Newfoundland 0
Nova Scotia 0
Ontario 1
Prince Edward Island 0
Quebec 0
Saskatchewan 0
Other Territories 0
Total Canada 22

DXCC QSO Distribution

DXCC # of QSOs
Alaska 2
Anguilla 1
Argentina 1
Aruba 1
Belize 2
Cuba 2
Dominica 2
French Polynesia 1
Hawaii 6
Marshall Is. 1
Mexico 1
Netherlands 2
US Virgin Is. 1
Venezuela 1
Total DXCC QSOs 24

Video

Check out this cool panoramic view of our station. Must have QuickTime to view.

Gallery


KC7EFP manning station 1.

Station 2 ended up being our primary station.

An array of antennas: Station 1 used the R7 (right in photo) while station 2 was connected to a doublet (follow ladder line in left of photo).

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