Topband: Stew Tomorrow!!

[Lew Sayre]

Yo Radio Rapscallions of the TopBand Variety,
    Tomorrow is the start of the 16th running of The Stew Perry TopBand Dx
Challenge sponsored by The Boring Amateur Radio Club.
Be there or be square. Fling some 160M energy into the air and see where it
lands.
     Go to the Website and check out the rules.  The rules are different
than the usual rules. Read them. Memorize them.
Quote them to your family loudly and often.
 http://jzap.com/k7rat/stew.html
     Listed below are the TopBand Thinkers and Shakers and Movers who have
donated $55 for each plaque
to reward some hard working TopBander for a particular achievement. Read
the list and understand what they
want and then compete.  When you see any of these Stalwart Sponsors be sure
to thank them and offer to buy them
a beverage for their valor.

Call                                              Category
KL7RA                                "Top Number of QSOs"
North Pole Contest Club        "Might be-Best Dressed Ham at Dayton"
TF4M                                  "Longest DX" (2 stations, each gets
1 plaque)
W0UCE                               " Top Score USA/S-O/LP/single wire
for Tx & Rx"
KR2Q                                  "Golden Log" (Top # of QSOs w/o
a bust)
K7FL                                   "Top Score 100% Search & Pounce"
N7UA                                  "Top Score High Power"
N2KW                                 "Highest rate X 1 hour w/o
bust" (Speed Demon)
K6ND                                  "K6SE Memorial-Top Score World"
NA0Y                                  "Top Score USA"
F8BPN                                "Top Score EU- Low Power"
EI4HQ                                "Perhaps you were Irish and
didn't know it"
           (Top # of calls with sequential "EI" in them)
N9ADG                                "Top Score Asia"
AA6VB                                "Top Score base loaded vertical <
60' tall"
AA6VB                                "Top Score Big
City/Little Pistol-City>50K runniing <100W"
KH6LC                                 "VK-ZL Challenge- Top Score VK-ZL"
W2GD Team                         "Top # NA + SA QSOs by EU station
W0RI                                    "Top Score West of
Mississippi River"
K7CA                                    "Top Score Southern Hemisphere"
K7CA                                    "Top Score Japan"
TF3KX                                   "Aurora Borealis Award"- Top
Score N of 60 deg North geomagnetic latitude
GMCC  (1)                              "Top Score S/O, Hi-Power Colorado
or Wyoming"
GMCC   (1)                             "Top Score S/O, Low Power
Colorado or Wyoming"
N5IA                                      "Most Grid Squares Worked"
N0TT                                     "Youngest USA Op > 100 QSOs"
AC8AP                                   "Top Score QRP"
AC8AP                                   "Longest DX QRP"
KI7Y                                       " Top Score World- 2X1 Call"
K1EP                                     "Top Score YL Operator
VE9AA  (2)                              "Eastern VE Op and a wire"
VK6VZ                                "Top Score N. Hemisphere
station working S. Hemisphere stations"
    (Winner gets official Flying Doctors of VK Baseball hat rather than
plaque)
    1)GMCC is the Grand Mesa Contest Club
    2)  Top Score Atlantic Canada at legal CW power level in Canada (750W
CW in Canada), but must be a single wire,
shunt fed tower or dipole/ inverted V. (No 4 squares, loops, phased arrays,
curtains or yagis). No gain antennas in other words.
(Dipoles accepted however). Also no RX Beverages, K9AY arrays or RX
antennas of any kind. Just a man and his wire.
This area would include VE1, VE9, VY2, VO1, VO2, CY0 and CY9

     If you are stricken by a perfect plaque idea then immediately let me
know and I'll get it onto the final plaque listing.
The category should be in a non-offensive vein and kept to a 1 sentence
idea.
    The hundreds of members of The Boring Amateur Radio Club would like to
thank the sponsors of the plaques
and the Radio Operators who inhabit 160M for the great support and
participation for The Stew Perry TopBand
Challenge.  See you in The Stew!
    73 and I remain,
   Lew   W7EW
The Boring Amateur Radio Club Word Mangler
  w7ew(at)arrl(dot)net