[CQ-Contest] One Week until The Stew Perry Top Band DX Challenge!

[Lew Sayre]

Greetings Top Band Insomniacs, RF Maniacs and Low Band Lovers,
     It is slightly less than one week until the starting gong for The Stew
Perry Top Band DX Challenge sponsored by The Boring Amateur Radio
Club.  Be sure to set aside up to 14 hours to participate in the best 160M
CW contest in our solar system Dec. 29/30. Please go read the rules:
http://www.kkn.net/stew/ <http://www.kkn.net/stew/>        Where else can
you spend an enjoyable
evening exchanging grid squares with 160M enthusiasts worldwide?
     Certain aspects of The Stew competition will be recognized by beautiful
plaques. Those special categories are sponsored by Radio Stalwarts as
noted below.  You can join this stellar group by sponsoring a plaque also.
Simply email me at my address listed at the end of this epistle for
information.

KL7RA        Top # QSOs, S/O
EI2CN          W/K/N/VE/XE station with most QSOs with EI/British Isles
N9TF            Top Score QRP, from RF deprived Grids EN00 through EN79
N9TF            Top # Grids NA,S/O,QRP non-resonant antenna <40' above
                      ground
N9TF             Top Score USA,S/O,L/P-multi trap vertical, non-resonant on
  160M           no matching device for 160 on or at antenna, tuner in shack
     OK.
UX1UA           Top # SA + NA QSOs by Zone 16 Station
UX1UA           Top # QSOs with Zone 16 by NA Station
K7CA              Top Score Zone 22
K7CA              Top Score Zone 24

W2GD Team   Top # QSOs wid NA/SA by EU Station
KH6LC            Top Score From VK or ZL
K1EP               Top Score by Op 21 y/o or less
K2PO               Top Score, S/O, Low Power, Zone 3
K5WA               Top # Grids using minimally directional antennas-
      (random wire, inverted V or Loop, etc.)
K5WA                Top # Grids 100 watts or less
N7GP                 Top # NA Grids worked from Zone 25
VE9AA               Top Score 100w Mobile- (vehicle,radio, antenna all
      capable of actual highway travel. No need to sign /M)
WA6CDR             N5IA Memorial- Top # Grids Worked
NQ6N                   Highest score by Station working other Stations
        who are running 100 watts or less
EI4HQ                 Top Score, S/O, QRP
K6ND                   K6SE Memorial- Top Score, S/O, World
W7RH                  Top Score Asia, Low Power (100W or less)
K7FL                    Top Score 100% S & P
KR2Q                   Golden Log- Highest # QSOs with no busts
VK6GX                 Heroic Tropical QRN Fighters- (Top Score +/- 15 deg
                              of equator)
K2AV                    Master of The Small Lot- (Top Score from property
     containing all antennas =/< 1/4 acre, 1012 meters square, 10890 sq ft)

VK6VZ       A Flying Doctors of VK Baseball cap for Top Score- Northern
Hemisphere  Station working Southern Hemisphere Stations.

     The Reflectors note excellent DX is afoot. Very long distance contacts
are
being completed on 160M. The weather is perfect for  this with blizzards,
floods,
windstorms, tornados and ice. So find a break in whatever nasty weather you
have
and get your system spiffed for next weekend.. The further away your QSO
partner
is at, the more points you get for that contact. What a concept!
     This year get your log in early and please specify in your comments
any
plaque that you might want to win. The Boring Amateur Radio Club has many
talents but mind reading is not one of those talents.  Even if you only
make 3 QSOs
please submit a log. You might win a plaque and you'll also have your call
on the
same list as the best 160M stations in the world.
     There will be one or two more Stew Perry TopBand DX Challenge
exhortations
to the 160M faithful, listing the available plaques.
73 and I remain,
Lew      w7ew
Boring Amateur Radio Club Committee on Nocturnal Radio
w7ew at arrl.net