Topband: Fwd: The 18th Stew Perry TopBand Challenge

[Lew Sayre]

   160M Contesters, DXers, ragchewers and lesser lights,
     The Boring Amateur Radio Club is reminding you about The Stew Perry
TopBand Distance Challenge which ignites Dec 28 at 1500Z and runs for 24
hours.
This is an "old school" contest emphasizing the operator's abilities to
tune, run
and efficiently operate an amateur radio station while utilizing the
freshest, fairest
rules in all the galaxy emphasizing a distance mnemonic in scoring the
results.
     There are a bunch of other excellent rules that you just don't find
most anywhere
else. Please guide your browser to
   http://www.kkn.net/stew/       and appreciate a role model for what
contests will become.
     The Boring Amateur Radio Club is more than just a pretty face. We also
emphasize
the roles of the individual radio combatants in choosing which plaques are
important to
be noted. Listed below are radio heroes who have picked out a category and
put their
$60 where their ideas are. You can do that too even if you know nothing
about 160M
but recognize a good contest when you see one.


KL7RA             Top # of QSOs
KL7RA              Top Score,S/O, North America
W2GD Team     Top # NA+SA QSOs by EU Station
TF4M                Longest Distance QSO- both ends get a plaque-
TF4M                Top Score 160M mobile (station has to be able to move)
N0TT                 Top Score <21 years old with > 200 QSOs
N5IA                  Most Grids worked
N5IA                  Top Score Daylight only( use a second call)
KH6LC               VL/ZL Challenge- Top Score VK/ZL
K5WA                Top Score S/O, Low Power, Americas
K5WA                Top Score S/O, Low Power, Europe
NA0Y                 Top Score USA
TF3KX                Aurora Borealis Award- Top Score N of 60N
                                geomagnetic latitiude
CE1/K7CA          Top Score Southern Hemisphere
CE1/K7CA          Top Score Japan
VK6VZ                Highest # of contacts made by N. Hemisphere working
                                 S. Hemisphere. -Winner gets Flying Doctors
of VK
                                 baseball hat

     This week, while the weather is absolutely atrocious, will be the
optimum time
to perfect your antennas. or wires, or installation, or significant other's
attitude
for readying  yourself for The Stew Perry TopBand Distance Challenge. Our
friends
at the ARRL have a nice little 160M contest this weekend for you to test
things out
in advance of The Stew. We at The Boring Amateur Radio Club urge you to get
on
and dit and dah around. If you blow something up or catch something on fire
this
weekend then you'll have time to have everything functional for The Stew
Perry.
     If you have questions, particularly about The Stew, please send them
to the club and
I'll get it to the correct committee for the correct answer. If you have a
plaque idea that
isn't just like any of the above sponsored plaques then send me an email
and we can
work it up shipshape. All it takes is $60 and be approved by a former
Sunday School
teacher who really believes that the devil is in the details.
     There will be more announcements as the plaque list becomes longer.
     73 and I remain,
    Lew     w7ew
The Boring Amateur Radio Club Committee on Cool Contests
w7ew at arrl.net