Greetings to Top Band Men, Women and undecided,
The starting gong for the 20th Edition of The Stew Perry TopBand
DX Challenge will go off at 1500Z, Dec 26 and the ending gong will
happen at 1500Z Dec. 27. In between these times grid square gladiators
will utilize cunning, wit, resolve, Morse code and some immutable laws
of physics for 14 hours out of the 24 to joust with similar TopBand
believers
in the most unique radio contest available. Why is The Stew Perry TopBand
DX Challenge unique? Just manipulate your monitor over to this site and
read
all about it!
www.kkn.net/stew/
The list below reveals available plaques and their very smart sponsors
who
have sharpened their senses and opened their pocketbooks to make available
actual wooden and metal plaques denoting categories of radio rapture that
will be awarded for certain performances during The Stew. These sponsors
are radio stalwarts and should be accorded great respect for their
foresight.
It is never too late for you to sponsor a plaque. Just email me with your
category, find and send $60 to us and you will have joined a very elite
group of radiowave wranglers.
KL7RA Top # of QSOs
North Pole Contest Group To be decided
K7FL/5H2DA Top Score 100% Search & Pounce
KR2Q Golden Log Award
N0TT Top Score < 21y/o, >200 QSOs
K7CA Top Score China
TF3KX Aurora Borealis Award- Top Score North
of 60 deg N geomagnetic Latitude
Dr. Beldar-L1AR Top Score,S/O, Temp Antenna erected after
Dec.14
VK6VZ- Flying Doctors of Top Score- N. Hemisphere station working
VK Baseball hat S. Hemisphere stations
UX1UA Top # NA + SA Qs by Zone 16 station
UX1UA USA station with top # Qs with Zone 16
K6ND K6SE Memorial- Top Score World S/O
K1EP Top LP score between 30deg N & 40deg N
lat (any station located in xM##
gridsquare)
KH6LC VK/ZL Challenge- Top Score S/O, VK/ZL
N6TQ/A25TQ California Dreaming- Top # Qs with Calif
stations by a non California station.
W2GD Team Top # Qs, NA/SA by European Station
W7RH Top Score, Low Power, Asia
K7CA Top Score from Zone 24, 27 or 28
K7CA Top Score from either Zone 19 or 25
FWDXA KL7RA Memorial- Top Score, LP, Central
Division
NA0Y Top Score North America
N9TF Top Score, North America, S/O, QRP
Rochester DX Assoc. Top Score,Low Power,S/O, Outside N. America
N7UA Top Score High Power
Niagara Frontier Radiosport Top Score,S/O,Low Power,Single Antenna
TF4M Longest High Power QSO
N6TR KL7RA Memorial- Top Score, Hi Power,
CQ Zone1
The Boring Amateur Radio Club asks the radio combatants to be sure to
add
to their comments in their log submission what plaque or plaques they are
trying
to win. We are powerfully prescient in many areas, such as knowing that
most
plaque winners will do the majority of their operating while the sky is
dark outside.
However you will need to tell us if you have particular plaque aspirations,
Please alert your DX friends of the many plaques available only to
selected
DX areas. Nothing like having the Plaque of the Dancing Rat on your wall to
amaze your friends and consternate your friendly competitors.
There will be another notice to the 160M public noting even more
plaques
appearing, usually the day of The Stew Perry TopBand Dx Challenge, unless
I'm
outside repairing various wires damaged by Thor, Anemoi, Zeus or my
slightly
deranged neighbor John. So again, it is never too late to sponsor a plaque
for
this evocative event.
73 and I remain,
Lew w7ew
Boring Amateur Radio Club Committee on Subtleties
w7ew@arrl.net
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