Calling all 160M Contesting Creatures,
The Boring Amateur Radio Club is producing the 11th edition of
The Stew Perry TopBand DX Challenge
and you should be there! All you really need is a radio, a hunk of
wire, vital signs and the time period off from
1500Z December 30 until 1500Z December 31 or at least 14 hours of this
time period preferably when it's dark.
The rules and information are straightforward and can be found
at: http://www.jzap.com/k7rat/stew.html
This contesting extravaganza is unique in several areas: score per
Q based on distance, score enhancements
for being low power or QRP or even working the peanut whistle types and
of course the ability of the contesting
combatants themselves to honor heroic achievements by sponsoring plaques
produced by The Boring Amateur
Radio Club. The famous, smart and good looking Hams listed below have
picked a particular category for this year's
edition of the Test. All it cost them for this immortality is $50 and an
e-mail to me advising me of your desired sponsored
category. The Boring Amateur Radio Club reserves the right to suggest
an alternative category if the one you've picked
seems risqué or perverse. Silly or stupid or clever is fine so the realm
of possibilities for your contesting brain is very large.
You can join these Stalwarts by thinking up a category and e-mailing me
and then sending the $50 pittance.
This year's plaques and Sponsors are:
KL7RA Highest Number of QSO's
W7TMT Top Score, Low Power, First time entry
KB7Q Top Score in Grid Field "DM"
N5IA Most Grid Squares worked
N7JW Top Score South of the Equator
K7CA Top Score Asiatic Russia
N0TT Top Score USA Op < 21 y/o & > 100 QSO
VK6VZ Top Score with antenna in a space < 20m X 10m
winner receives an official Royal Flying Doctors of Australia cap
NA0Y Top Score USA
K1PX Top Score, Low Power, Europe
K7FL Top Score 100% Search and Pounce
K8ND Top Score, Single Op, Caribbean
W7GNP/N7KQ Top Score Central/South America
K0UK Top Score by Station >4000' above sea level
KR2Q Top Score with Golden Log (no busts)
N9ADG We're considering several possibilities with this grant
You may have noticed that this is a CW only contest. If your code speed is
nonexistent
or the equivalent of not old enough to drive yet....don't despair! Practice
the magical
phrase "QRS", slide up the band a bit and have at it. When a di-dah jockey
goes too fast for
you, just whip out the QRS on him/her/it and they'll do it again slower.
The propagation gurus from The Kenai, Oklahoma, New Yurp, Singapore, Canada,
California and Texas
all agree that the possibility for tremendous conditions exist for this year's
edition of
The Stew Perry TopBand Challenge. So go put up a wire and set aside some
personal respite time
from all the Holiday blather and hub-bub so you can come out and play with us
on Radio's almost
toughest stage.
73 and I remain,
Lew W7EW/W7AT
The Boring Amateur Radio Club Vice President in charge of plaques, pizza
and propagation
w7ew@arrl.net
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