| Call Used | Category | School/Club Name | Participants |
|---|
| W7WSD | School Club - Senior High | Wahkiakum Mecha Mules | 21 |
| Primary Operator/Sponsor |
| Call | QTH | Name |
|---|
| W7ERY | WA | Ron Wright |
| Score | CW/RTTY/Dig Qs | Phone Qs | US | VE | DX | Clubs | Schools |
|---|
| 109,151 | 0 | 503 | 49 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 29 |
Comments:
As every other school says: Thanks much to all of the Amateurs who spoke with our school and kids. Much appreciated.
The sixth grade class came to the radio room for two hours on Thursday, and just before they left I asked them on a scale of 0 to 5 would you like to do this again, and nearly everyone held up a 10. Nearly everyone had made one contact, and they made 25 total in their time in the shack. On Friday morning the other sixth grade class complained so much about not being able to get to go that their math teacher called and we made an "emergency" club operating opening for them.
Somehow, and I don't know why, talking on the radio seems more real to kids than talking on their cell phones.
Our core team of 2 HS (Peter and Cor) and 3 MS (Jett, Stevie and Teagan) students really outperformed our expectations, and had help from the sixth graders and a few others.
This antenna and operating station were a test. Our biggest accomplishment isn't our score, rather it was "proving" our operating station and antenna. This set-up is proposed to be our county's main communications hub for health and welfare traffic in a major emergency. With 49 of the 50 states and 500 contacts, we now know it works. And, on the "emergency" Friday morning unexpected start-up, it literally took less than 30 seconds to be operational.
