Topband: Stew Perry Rules ?

[Greg Chartrand]

I find it ironic that spotting is not an accepted part
of the Stew Perry Contest. Some of us recall Stew
being the leader in state-of-the-art spotting in his
time; i.e. his newsletter that he composed, printed,
and distributed at his cost via postal mail for the
purpose of helping everyone find and work the elusive
160 DX. 

I further remember getting a 1 AM call from him via
telephone to work a very strong european after I wrote
him a note that DX was almost impossible at my
location due to noise. 

I think Stew would have welcomed, endorsed, and be a
top spotter on the web had he lived long enough to so
so. The 160 God's who make the contest rules probably
did not know Stew.

I know He's looking down at us through the ionisphere
wondering how a contest in his name doesn't endorse
and use the best communications tools available to
work DX on 160. 

Back in the 60's we did the hard way because there
were no other options!

Greg - W7MY
x-WA9EYY

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Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 09:30:26 -0500
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Subject: RE: Topband: DX window?
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Josep:

Not everyone who operates is planning to send an entry
for scoring.

If you don't plan to send a log, you are not bound by
any contest rules. You can post spots and use the
packet system to work new states or countries.

No rule changes is needed. The Stew is trying to take
us back to the "olden days" before the cluster, when
real operators needed to *listen*!

Happy Holidays!

73,

  Jeff Maass  K8ND

  Caribbean Contesting Consortium - PJ2T



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