[CQ-Contest] The 11th Edition of the Stew Perry TopBand DX Challenge

[lew]

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 at arrl.net