Re: [amsat-bb] elmer award

["Bruce Paige" <kk5do@xxxxxxxx>]

QSL cards are not needed but the intent is to work actual school club stations. 
having a demo at a school is great and hopefully it will entice school 
administration to get licensed and set up a station. but it was really intended 
to have the schools participate as well. the students themselves do not need to 
be licensed when operating a club station but the club station needs to be 
registered to the school. 

as in the  case of olle middle school down the street from me. they have a 
call, k5oms. there is a ham radio class each semester and some kids do wind up 
getting a license at the end of the semester. but others are in it for the 
elective. as long as they are operating as k5oms, it is the trustees 
responsibility that they operate correctly. frosty, k5lbu, is the trustee and 
the teacher. 

this is different from the clear lake arc, k5hou, going into a school to give a 
demo and having the kids operate. this would not count as it is not the schools 
club callsign but rather a ham clubs call. 

there are actually a lot of universities that have club callsigns (they would 
count as well). there are a lot of them out there, getting them on the air 
might be a different story. remember emory-riddle university in florida. there 
were 3 or 4 students there about a year ago that were on the air almost every 
day as they went after worked all states and vucc. they were operating with 
their personal calls which would have only counted for a personal contact, 
however, you probably could have got them to give you a qso with the school 
club call.

73...bruce


From:           	"lou" <maranatha11@attbi.com>
To:             	<amsat-bb@AMSAT.Org>
Subject:        	[amsat-bb] elmer award
Date sent:      	Mon, 1 Apr 2002 06:57:14 -0500

> Hello to all,
>     I have not been on the birds for a month or so, due to a heavy work
> load, but do have a question for Bruce, and maybe it will help anyone else
> going for the elmer award, as Bruce stated some are close to the basic
> award, I am almost there also. my question lies with the school clubs, I
> have made qso with a club in Kansas, and allso a club in Nort Carolina.
> both stations operated under the control operators call, due to unlicensed
> student.  do they qualify?  or do I need an actual school club call to go on
> record?  I have 1 qsl the other never mailed on, but realize QSL's are not
> needed. thanks for any insight, hope everyone is well. BTW I used to be KB1HJB
> (Bravo) I am now N1GOD  and have great qsl cards for contacts, when I can get
> out there again. 73 LOU    N1GOD AMSAT 33776
> 
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