Hello everybody and welcome back to the Everything Ham Radio Podcast! Due to poor planning and not realizing that I hadn’t made a podcast episode yet until the night before this episode is scheduled to be released, it is just me today. We are going to be talking about the School Club Roundup, some new information about this years Hamvention and more…
Tech Corner
Correction from the last episode
In the last episode, we talked about the stuff that was going on with the ARRL Board and some of the changes that they were talking about making. I said that the President and the three Vice-Presidents were paid employees of the ARRL. I have since been corrected of this, multiple time actually. The president and the three vice presidents are not paid. They are directors that are appointed to the positions and when they take the positions they lose their votes.
School Club Round up
Winter/Spring Term: February 12-16, 2018
Fall Term: October 15-19, 2018
Objective: To exchange QSO information with club stations that are part of an elementary, middle, high school or college. Non-school clubs and individuals are encouraged to participate.
Sponsored by the ARRL, its Hudson Division Education Task Force and and the Long Island Mobile Amateur Radio Club (LIMARC) to foster contacts with and among school radio clubs.
Award certificates will be issued for the following US and DX categories:

* Schools: Elementary, Middle/Intermediate/Junior High School, High School and College/University
* Non-school Clubs
* Individuals

Web Submission of Scores and Logs: Click here for the SCR score entry website.  Scores and logs for any School Club Roundup may be entered from the time the contest begins through the log submission deadline published below.  A logs-received page is also maintained and provisional scores will be published immediately following the log submission deadline. Thanks to WA7BNM for creating this new score reporting and publishing web site.
Multipliers: Note that a station can only count for a single multiplier as described in Rule 5 below. i.e. a contact may count for a “School” or a “Club” but not both.  A “school club” counts as a “school” only.  Contacts submitted claiming both multipliers will be scored according to the log submitted by the station contacted.
Post Photos and Stories: One of the best parts of School Club Roundup is showing off your team members and station.  Other participants will enjoy hearing about how you did and reading the story of your contest.  You can upload photos and text via the ARRL Soapbox web page.
Stay updated on SCR. Send an email to: SCR-L-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.
NEW RULES IMPLEMENTED 2016
Because of rules changes, logging software updates are needed. Be sure your software is up to date!
Contacts on digital modes such as RTTY and PSK31 now count separately from CW.  Modes must be abbreviated in the Cabrillo-formatted log file as PH, CW, or RY.
The number of contacts allowed per station has been changed to once per band per mode. One will now be able to make up to three contacts with a station on each band using CW, voice, and digital modes.  Multipliers will still only count once.
A minor change in the minimum break time may give some school operations some additional operating time.  The minimum break time is reduced from 30 minutes to 10 minutes.  This may be helpful in schools where operation is interrupted by the changing of classes.
ONLINE RESULTS
The full results writeup for the October 2016 and February 2017 contests will be available in the October 2017 issue of QST. Click