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[CQ-Contest] The Stew Perry TopBand DX Challenge IX

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Subject: [CQ-Contest] The Stew Perry TopBand DX Challenge IX
From: Lew <Lew@dsl-only.net>
Reply-to: leww@msn.com
Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 15:14:31 -0800
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Well, The ARRL 160M CW Test has been run with conditions being described as so-so to maybe OK. The fun factor was generally good with a lot of 160M RF being flung all about the globe. It is now time to write down those possible improvements to your 160M system and get to work making them happen because The Stew Perry TopBand DX Challenge will happen Dec. 18 and 19. Even if that means shunt feeding that '64 Ford that's been rusting in the backyard. You just never know what will help out your 160M system.
This contest is unlike others: The QSO points depend on the distance between the two stations, final score utilizes factors relating to the power you're running and also the power of the station you worked, stations compete from all around the world, this as a CW only contest, grid squares are used as part of the exchange and the participants determine what honors are important by sponsoring certain categories memorialized by plaques.



http://web.jzap.com/k7rat/stew.html<http://web.jzap.com/k7rat/stew.html>


The above web page will answer your questions in more detail and will give you sense of what this grand TopBand contest is all about.
The Stew Perry TopBand DX Challenge is unique in that the prizes or plaques are determined by the radio combatants themselves. Almost any category, set of working conditions, QTH or other requirement may be used to set forth a plaque to stimulate or commemorate the action during the contest. The Executive Contest Committee of The Boring Amateur Radio Club reserves the right to ensure that most of the categories sponsored are of at least marginal value to somebody, somewhere in the 160M universe. A simple check of $50 to the Club at my CBA will insure your sponsorship, engraved forever on the awarded plaque, of whatever category you'd like to see emphasized.
Several 160M Stalwarts have already jumped into the fray and have sponsored the following categories. Why don't you conjure up an appropriate category and join these far seeing and far reaching Ops?
Donor Category
KL7RA Top QSO Total
WA2DFI Top Score Single Op VE
W7EW Best DX distance
K7RAT Top Score Multi-Op World
N5IA Most Grid Squares Worked
Horned Toad Wireless (N7KQ) Top Score-Low power, Rest of World
N9ADG Top Score West Washington- Low Power
K1PX Top Score EU- Low Power
K5KA Top Score US/VE Low Power
K8ND Top Score S/O Caribbean
W7GG Top Score S/O QRP
KB5NJD Top Score-Ant < 40' or 13m tall
KI7Y W7BX Memorial- Top Score JA
VK6VZ The VK5AX Small Backyard Memorial- Top Score
wid antenna in space < 20m x 10m or 66ft x 33ft. Winner gets coveted Royal Flying Doctors Service of Australia hat


If you're lucky enough to have room for a Beverage antenna or 4 then remember to listen for the DX, because the DX will be there looking, listening and calling for you. Even without Beverages, S & P along the band and CQ carefully as the DX will be there. The further away the contact is that you made, the more the contact is worth. In this contest, you too are the DX! The power that you use and the power that the station you contact also figures into the points that you make. The Boring Amateur Radio Club is making this a laboratory for fair contesting. Comments, after this year's contest is run, will be welcomed as to your impression of this contest.
If you see a glaring omission in the categories sponsored so far and you care, then send me an e-mail at: leww@msn.com
to sponsor that missing category. Further notes with regard to the Stalwarts who support this contest will be forthcoming.
Dec 18 and 19 is right around the corner.
73 and I remain,
Lew W7EW/W7AT
Plaquemeister-Boring Amateur Radio Club






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