[CQ-Contest] Topband: Stew Tomorrow!!

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A quick update.  Thor, TF4M has stepped up to the plate and sponsored
a plaque for the highest mobile score (for the next four years).  You
must be able to make QSOs while in motion - so no fair backing your
car to your 4 square.

On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Lew Sayre <w7ew at arrl.net> wrote:
> Yo Radio Rapscallions of the TopBand Variety,
>    Tomorrow is the start of the 16th running of The Stew Perry TopBand Dx
> Challenge sponsored by The Boring Amateur Radio Club.
> Be there or be square. Fling some 160M energy into the air and see where it
> lands.
>     Go to the Website and check out the rules.  The rules are different
> than the usual rules. Read them. Memorize them.
> Quote them to your family loudly and often.
>  http://jzap.com/k7rat/stew.html
>     Listed below are the TopBand Thinkers and Shakers and Movers who have
> donated $55 for each plaque
> to reward some hard working TopBander for a particular achievement. Read
> the list and understand what they
> want and then compete.  When you see any of these Stalwart Sponsors be sure
> to thank them and offer to buy them
> a beverage for their valor.
>
> 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  (1)                              "Top Score S/O, Hi-Power Colorado
> or Wyoming"
> GMCC   (1)                             "Top Score S/O, Low Power
> Colorado or Wyoming"
> N5IA                                      "Most Grid Squares Worked"
> N0TT                                     "Youngest USA Op > 100 QSOs"
> AC8AP                                   "Top Score QRP"
> AC8AP                                   "Longest DX QRP"
> KI7Y                                       " Top Score World- 2X1 Call"
> K1EP                                     "Top Score YL Operator
> VE9AA  (2)                              "Eastern VE Op and a wire"
> VK6VZ                                "Top Score N. Hemisphere
> station working S. Hemisphere stations"
>    (Winner gets official Flying Doctors of VK Baseball hat rather than
> plaque)
>    1)GMCC is the Grand Mesa Contest Club
>    2)  Top Score Atlantic Canada at legal CW power level in Canada (750W
> CW in Canada), but must be a single wire,
> shunt fed tower or dipole/ inverted V. (No 4 squares, loops, phased arrays,
> curtains or yagis). No gain antennas in other words.
> (Dipoles accepted however). Also no RX Beverages, K9AY arrays or RX
> antennas of any kind. Just a man and his wire.
> This area would include VE1, VE9, VY2, VO1, VO2, CY0 and CY9
>
>     If you are stricken by a perfect plaque idea then immediately let me
> know and I'll get it onto the final plaque listing.
> The category should be in a non-offensive vein and kept to a 1 sentence
> idea.
>    The hundreds of members of The Boring Amateur Radio Club would like to
> thank the sponsors of the plaques
> and the Radio Operators who inhabit 160M for the great support and
> participation for The Stew Perry TopBand
> Challenge.  See you in The Stew!
>    73 and I remain,
>   Lew   W7EW
> The Boring Amateur Radio Club Word Mangler
>  w7ew(at)arrl(dot)net
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