Topband: [Fwd: The Stew Perry TopBand DX Challenge IX]

[Lew]

      December is upon us with Holidays, a recently completed CQWW-CW
contest and the upcoming Stew Perry TopBand DX Challenge- brought to you
by The Boring Amateur Radio Club. We have invited various propagation
deities to allow us to have the best contest yet. The Boring Amateur
Radio Club encourages you to participate in the ARRL 160M contest this
weekend. It is a fine contest and will probably whet your appetite for
more action on the 160M Band which can be satisfied by operating The
Stew Perry TopBand DX Challenge for 14 hours out of the possible 24 from
1500Z Dec. 18 to 1500Z Dec. 19 time period.
      This contest is unlike others: The QSO points depend on the
distance between the two stations, final score utilizes factors relating
to the power you're running and also the power of the station you
worked, stations compete from all around the world, this as a CW only
contest, grid squares are used as part of the exchange and the
participants determine what honors are important by sponsoring certain
categories memorialized by plaques.

        http://web.jzap.com/k7rat/stew.html

      The above web page will answer your questions in more detail and
will give you sense of what this grand TopBand contest is all about.
      Already TopBand stalwarts have been sending in their sponsorship
for plaques to be awarded as the result of this 9th running of The Stew
Perry TopBand DX Challenge. Listed below are the Plaque donors and the
categories they feel are important, so far.
Donor                                             Category
KL7RA                   Top QSO Total
WA2DFI                 Top Score Single Op VE
W7EW                    Best DX distance
K7RAT                    Top Score Multi-Op World
VK6VZ                    The VK5AX Small Backyard Memorial- Top Score wid
                  antenna in space < 20mx10m or 66ft x 33ft.  Winner gets
coveted
                  Royal Flying Doctors Service of Australia hat

      There are  contesters out there right now deciding what category to
sponsor.  Decide what is important to you and sponsor it!  The Boring
Amateur Radio Club feels strongly that the participants shall decide.
Challenge a buddy across town or across an ocean for a category that
describes you and sponsor the plaque. The cost is a paltry $50.00. The
donor's call is also forever inscribed on the plaque which will hang in
a place of honor in the winner's abode.  To set aside a particular
category please email me at  leww at msn.com <mailto:leww at msn.com> with
your idea and then send the funds to me via CBA. First E-mailed-first
gets it.
      The plaques for the running of the 2003 edition of this fine test
went into the first class mail today, so they should be arriving soon.
(Don't worry Mau!)
      So get out there and spiff up those Beverages and verticals and
loops and hunks of other conductive material and get ready for The Stew.
      Updates of the sponsor list will be published weekly or so..which
means only a couple or three more times since the Stew Perry TopBand DX
Challenge will be a happening thing Dec. 18 - 19.
      73 and I remain,
      Lew   W7EW/W7AT
      Plaquemeister-Boring Amateur Radio Club