[CQ-Contest] Topband: The 16th Stew Perry TopBand DX Challenge

[James Rodenkirch]

And, to "pile on, sorta," to Lew's post, I'd like to continue toi promote your participation (that's "your" as those of you who'll be operating during the SP) in the QRP ARCI's Top Band Sprint the evening of 1 December. 

This six hour event is scheduled from 0000Z till 0600Z on 2 December 2011.  Note:  this is the evening of 1 December 2011 in North America

If you can find a little time to scour the Top Band for us QRP operators who'll be lookin' for QSOs on CW and/or SSB modes, we'll do all we can to promote the QRP participants to return the favor during your SP contest - we offer up a 4 point contact, don't forget, during the SP!

Thank you, in advance, for gettin' on the air if time permits the evening of 1 December and encouraging more Top Band operators, albeit at QRP levels.

72, Jim Rodenkirch, K9JWV
QRP ARCI Contest Managetr

 


> Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 19:53:11 -0800
> From: w7ew at arrl.net
> To: topband at contesting.com
> CC: cq-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: Topband: The 16th Stew Perry TopBand DX Challenge
> 
> Greetings Utilizers of the Night Forces,
>      In 4 weeks the Stew Perry TopBand DX Challenge will be upon us. For
> Amateur Radio Operators
> who are not familiar with this event it is a 24 hour Morse Code test on
> 160M only, with the contest
> participants exchanging their calls and Maidenhead Grid 4 digit locators
> for 14 hours. For Amateur Radio Operators who
> are familiar with this event... it is still the same thing.  The Boring
> Amateur Radio Club sponsors this contest
> which utilizes a distance mnemonic to reward more points for a far away
> contact than for a not so far away contact.
>     We have official rules and information about this Great Contest which
> live at:  http://jzap.com/k7rat/stew.html
>    This web site is currently hosed and non-functional presumably related
> to the massive amounts of RF thrown
> into the sky by the recently concluded CQWW-SSB and the Sweepstakeses.  Our
> cracker-jack team of web site
> restorers will soon resuscitate the site so that you may study for
> yourselves the event and its subtleties.
>      The plaque program for The Stew Perry TopBand Extravaganza is unique
> in that The Boring Amateur Radio Club
> does not decide what performances should be rewarded with wood.  The radio
> combatants do that by sponsoring
> categories that they individually feel are important.  These Stalwarts
> choose the accomplishment that they want rewarded,
> send or Paypal $55 to the Club and then the fight is on for that category.
> Listed below are the Radio Operators already in
> for 2011:
> 
> Call                                              Category
> KL7RA                                "Top Number of QSOs"
> North Pole Contest Club        "Being Cogitated"
> TF4M                                  "Longest DX" (2 stations, each get 1
> plaque)
> W0UCE                               " Top Score USA/S-O/LP/single wire for
> Tx & Rx"
> KR2Q                                  "Golden Log" (Top # of QSOs w/o a
> bust)
> VK6VZ                                "Top Score N. Hemisphere station
> working S. Hemisphere stations"
>            (Winner gets official Flying Doctors of VK Baseball hat rather
> than plaque)
> 
>      If you are an individual Sponsor then the community will recognize and
> appreciate your efforts to stimulate the competition.
> If you are a business then the community should swarm your website and
> phones to buy all of your wares to reward you for the support!
> An email to me inquiring about a particular category should get a
> reasonably swift response and a place on this list of donors.
> All categories will be screened for appropriateness by the Boring Amateur
> Radio Club Committee on Smut Detection whose decisions are
> usually final.
>      The plaques for the 2010 Stew Fray are all ready to be taken to the
> Postal Authorities so they should be arriving at the winners' abodes soon.
>       The Boring Amateur Radio Club understands that ol' Sol has brought
> life to 10M and even some 6M propagation. Ancient dogma suggests that these
> conditions
> hurt 160M but we know better. These conditions test the TopBand contestors
> and direct them to even better technology and operating in order to make
> the TopBand QSOs.
>       We at the Club also understand that the 16th running of The Stew
> Perry TopBand Challenge is the week before Chistmas during the Holiday
> season.  What better way to
> cope with the frenzy and panic that can permeate those times than to sit
> down and work the world on TopBand for a while?
>     Start doing good deeds now to fill up the favor bank so that you can
> withdraw the favored time to play in The Stew Perry.  See You in The Stew!
>    73 and I remain,
>     Lew   W7EW
>   The Boring Amateur Radio Club Plaquerer
>   w7ew(at)arrl(dot)net
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