[CQ-Contest] The Stew Perry Contest is Near

[Lew Sayre]

Yo Top Banders, Contesters, DXers, and lesser lights,

I've heard it firsthand, that up on Top Band, the propagation can be rather
scary.
But here comes a test that's above all the rest, and is best known as The
Stew Perry.
Conditions can be bad but the Q's can be had, if the Op really knows of the
mix,
by twiddling the knobs to filter the slobs who insist on running
transmitters with clicks!
The band can be tough with operators quite rough who will search each
frequency and cranny,
The winners who care to sit up all night there, and keep their perch under
their fanny.
The Stew scoring rules now challenge the fools who keep unfair judging
alive,
you'll make a long Q which makes more points for you than the old country
multiplier jive.
You'll have 14 hours to test out your powers of sending and getting mayhem.
You may shriek, you may swear but the signals with care you'll pull right
out of the din.
This time of the year, with Christmas so near makes operating time a prized
thing.
So make things good deeded to get the time needed to compete for The Stew's
wooden bling.
The donors below are the Stalwarts we know who typify real radio lore.
They make a donation for a plaque-type creation that'll drop your jaw right
to the floor.
So I've written this tome, I wouldn't call it a poem, to attract your care
and attention.
to invite you to play, in a nocturnal way, in the 16th Stew Perry
Convention.
     Dr Big Gun, call withheld, with apologies to Robt. Service


    You want to see the rules?  Want to see other cool stuff? Go to
  http://jzap.com/k7rat/stew.html
and check them out.


Call                                              Category
KL7RA                                "Top Number of QSOs"
North Pole Contest Club        "Might be-Best Dressed Ham at Dayton"
TF4M                                  "Longest DX" (2 stations, each gets 1
plaque)
W0UCE                               " Top Score USA/S-O/LP/single wire for
Tx & Rx"
KR2Q                                  "Golden Log" (Top # of QSOs w/o a
bust)
K7FL                                   "Top Score 100% Search & Pounce"
N7UA                                  "Top Score High Power"
N2KW                                 "Highest rate X 1 hour w/o bust"
(Speed Demon)
K6ND                                  "K6SE Memorial-Top Score World"
NA0Y                                  "Top Score USA"
F8BPN                                "Top Score EU- Low Power"
EI4HQ                                "Perhaps you were Irish and didn't
know it"
            (Top # of calls with sequential "EI" in them)
N9ADG                                "Top Score Asia"
AA6VB                                "Top Score base loaded vertical < 60'
tall"
AA6VB                                "Top Score Big City/Little
Pistol-City>50K runniing <100W"
KH6LC                                 "VK-ZL Challenge- Top Score VK-ZL"
W2GD Team                         "Top # NA + SA QSOs by EU station
W0RI                                    "Top Score West of Mississippi
River"
K7CA                                    "Top Score Southern Hemisphere"
K7CA                                    "Top Score Japan"
TF3KX                                   "Aurora Borealis Award"- Top Score
N of 60 deg North geomagnetic latitude
GMCC                                   "Top Score S/O, Hi-Power Colorado or
Wyoming"
GMCC                                   "Top Score S/O, Low Power Colorado
or Wyoming"
VK6VZ                                "Top Score N. Hemisphere station
working S. Hemisphere stations"
     (Winner gets official Flying Doctors of VK Baseball hat rather
than plaque)
GMCC is the Grand Mesa Contest Club

    If  you would like to sponsor a plaque for the Stew Perry TopBand DX
Challenge sponsored by The Boring Amateur
Radio Club then send an email to me with the details very soon.  The cost
is $55 per plaque or 3 for $150.
The Stew Perry TopBand Extravaganza is a CW contest on 160M only held this
year Dec 17/18.
     The Boring Amateur Radio Club will not accept any written essays,
stories, poems or endorsements of political candidates.
We do not know any Hollywood agents although we could play one in the
movies.
     There will be at least one more posting to The Faithful of the plaques
that are sponsored for this years edition of the Contest.
73 and I remain,
    Lew    W7EW
   Boring Amateur Radio Club Doggerel Expert
w7ew(at) arrl(dot)net