Topband: The Stew Perry TopBand DX CHallenge #14 v3

[Lew Sayre]

Dear Ditters and Dahters of the Ionosphere,
     All parts of the CQWW-all band tests have been exercised.  The nice
folks at the ARRL are having a very nice 160M contest
as a warm-up for The Stew Perry TopBand Extravaganza this very weekend.
Please get on and exercise your 160 meters
to be even more prepared for December 26 when the Stew grid-ions are
activated and legends will be born.  These months shall be
viewed as "the good ol' days" very soon as sunspots will emerge sometime
within the next year or two. You should be a part of this!
     We are lucky to have such excellent different 160M contests
with varying scoring mnemonics. The Boring Amateur Radio Club
thinks that the rules and scoring theorems  for The Stew Perry TopBand
Challenge is the fairest and most progressive of them all.
That is only one of the reasons why we have multiple committees working day
and night to make this great contest happen.
     The rules and information about this contest are fully explained at
this fine site:
  http://jzap.com/k7rat/stew.html
     A somewhat bizzarre but unique aspect of The Stew Perry Contest is the
ability for the radio combatants to sponsor plaques that
they themselves feel is important to recognize.  Listed below are contesting
giants and entities that have chosen a particular classification
that they feel should be honored.  You may also do the very same thing by
suggesting a class that would pass the family hour test and then
remitting $55 to The Boring Amateur Radio Club to realize the dream.  Email
me for more information.
     The Contesting Stalwarts and their classes are as below:

Donor                           Category

KL7RA                         Highest number of QSO's
F8BPN                         Top Score Low Power Europe
N7UA                           Top Score High Power
K6ND                           K6SE Memorial- Top Score World
K7FL                            Top Score 100% Search and Pounce
N7KQ                           Top Score Central/South America
N0TT                            Top Score Low Power Minnesota
DX Engineering              Top Score USA
DX Engineering              Top Score Hi-Power Europe
KH6LC                          VK-ZL CHallenge- Top Score VK/ZL
W0UCE                         Antenna/Power Limited *
N5IA                             Most Grids Worked
KR2Q                           "Golden Log" Top # of Q's without a mistake
KB7Q                           High Score QRP
VK6VZ                          Max # of points made with stations in S.
                                  Hemisphere**
AE6RF                          Top Score Low Power W6
K6DBG                          Top Score QRP West of Mississippi River
W2GD Contest Team      Top Score Multi World
TF3KX                            Aurora Borealis-Top Score > 60deg N.
                                    geomagnetic latitude
K0PK                             Top Score QRP Minnesota
Hudson Valley Towers     Longest DX contact
WA5GVI                        Top Score W6


             *-Must use single wire for Tx & Rx and <100W
            **-Winner gets Official Royal Flying Doctors Service of
Australia hat rather than plaque/winner must
                operate from N. hemisphere
     Radio Enthusiasts have queried when we will sponsor a SSB version of
The Stew Perry.  We feel that the language of 160M is CW, so
it may be a few more sunspot cycles or until other graphical areas are
frozen over before the SSB-Stew Perry is realized. If your fluency is SSB or
RTTY
then The Stew Perry TopBand Contest is the perfect vehicle to learn for and
to perform better The Morse.  You'll come to realize that QRS is very
powerful.
    The last 3 plaques for the 2008 contest will be going out soon.  The
little old plaquemaker has survived yet another season but will be
overwhelmed again
by even more plaque for this years running of The Stew. Pick out which
plaque you'll strive for from the list above.
     So get on this weekend for the ARRL, in December for The Stew and in
January for the CQ/Blank 160 Contest. It's all radio, all 160M and all good!
     More Boring notices concerning The Stew Perry TopBand Challenge will
undoubtedly happen before December 26.
     73 and I remain,
     Lew    W7EW/W7AT
     The Boring Amateur Radio Club Committee for Golf Handicaps
      w7ew at arrl.net