Topband: Fwd: The Stew Perry TopBand DX Challenge #18

[Milt -- N5IA]

To all who are gearing up to operate in the Stew Perry Distance Challenge this coming weekend.

You will note that I am the sponsor of one of the unique plaque offerings in the upcoming SPDC contest.  The following is my reply to a previous inquiry regarding the 'RULES' to be considered for the "Highest Score Daytime Operation Only" plaque.

“The sponsored plaque will be winnable only by those stations that conform to a ‘Sun in the Sky’ parameter.  It is actual sunrise for a morning start and actual sunset for an afternoon ending, at the operator’s TX site.

At my latitude the sun rises at ~7:15 AM and sets at ~4:50 PM, local MST at 119 degrees west.  So I have historically, from the beginning in 1996, operated the Stew from 5 PM to 7 AM.

For a number of years I have done the following because the SPDC is a single night, 14 hours only contest.  The 14 hours wasn’t enough operating time and I wanted to have some more fun and get some more signals on the air.

I have encouraged others to do the same but perhaps I am the only one really doing this extended operation.

Since the Stew begins at 8 AM local, 1500 Z on Saturday morning, nearly an hour after sunrise, I operate HIGH POWER with a club call sign (N7GP) until the band fades away.  I come back at mid-afternoon, 3 PM local, and again operate at HIGH POWER with the club call sign for nearly two hours.

At 5 PM local, 0000 Z, a few minutes after sunset, I start operating at QRP level with my own call sign, N5IA.  I continue for 14 hours and finish the QRP operation at 7 AM local, 1400 Z, a few minutes before sunrise.  At sunrise I again operate HIGH POWER with the N7GP call sign for another 45 minutes or so until the end of the contest at 1500 Z.

I then submit TWO entries, one as a High Power operation with the N7GP call sign and one as a QRP operation with the N5IA call sign.”

For those that are interested in my 3830 report of my 2012 ‘Daylight Only’ operation, you can go to http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2012-12/msg02391.html

I encourage everyone to operate with a 2nd call sign outside the normal 14 hours with a primary call sign.  And I highly recommend the operation be a ‘Sun in the Sky’ operation.  Let’s see who has the advantage in this one.  Perhaps one of our more southern latitude ops with more daylight can take advantage and win this first time offered plaque.  Who knows.  Just do it.  Give it a try.  In some places you will be like fresh meat to the hordes.  Enjoy a run fest.

CU all in the STEW.

de Milt, N5IA, who will also operate a daylight operation as N7GP but will not be eligible to win the plaque.


-----Original Message----- 
From: Lew Sayre 
Sent: Tuesday, December 24, 2013 12:56 PM 
To: topband at contesting.com ; cq-contest at contesting.com 
Subject: Topband: Fwd: The Stew Perry TopBand DX Challenge #18 

Hello to Everybody in 160M Land,
     In a few very short days, the Stew Perry TopBand DX Challenge will
take place.
People from around the globe will fling RF mostly into the air and try to
catch the same
stuff with a variety of wires and metal devices. The rules are different
than most contests
so please browse yourself over to:
   http://www.kkn.net/stew/
and read the major points and contemplate the subtleties.
     The plaque sponsorship program has blossomed as listed below. The
sponsors are
solid people of good upbringing who are quick on their feet and fast to
come with good ideas
to spur the competition during The Stew. You can join this august group by
sending me the
idea and $60. The final list of sponsors will be sent out just hours before
the start of The Stew.
     When you meet any of these sponsors be sure to thank them for their
support of radio
contesting in general and The Stew Perry in particular.

KL7RA          Top # of QSOs
KL7RA          Top Score, S/O, North America
W2GD Team  Top # NA+SA QSOs by EU Station
TF4M            Longest Distance QSO- 2 plaques
TF4M            Top Score Mobile (has to be actually able to move)
N0TT             Top Score <21 years old, >200 QSOs
N5IA              Most Grids Worked
N5IA             Highest Score Daytime operation only
KH6LC           VK-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 60 deg N
                     geomagnetic latitude
CE1/K7CA      Top Score Southern Hemisphere
CE1/K7CA      Top Score Japan
K1EP             Top Score by First Time Entrant
K2PO             Top Score, S/O, Low Power, Zone 3
K6ND             K6SE Memorial- Top Score World
W7RH            Top Score, Low Power, Asia
K7FL              Top Score 100% Search and Pounce
W0RI              Top Score, S/O, Zone 4
AA6VB           Top Score, base loaded Vert <60' tall
AA6VB           Top Score Big City >50K,little pistol<100W
WA2DFI          Top Score VE
KR2Q              Golden Log- Top # of Qs without a bust
K1LT               Top Score from QSOs with low power & QRP
VK6VZ             VK6HD Memorial-Top Score by N. hemisphere
                 working S. hemisphere. Winner gets Flying Doctors
                 of VK baseball hat.

     In preparation for the 2014 Stew there will be a category for the top
score made utilizing 100W
and an all-indoor antenna in the same structure that you live in. Advanced
warning for those
radio people who may compete for this plaque as it may well take a length
of time to brew up
such an antenna safely.
     During discussions with our VK/ZL contesting brethren, it is clear
that they have a very difficult
time in hearing the North hemisphere during their summer. This is made
worse of course by using
QRP. So, If you are on the fence about running QRP or low power, consider
QRO in order to contact
these stalwart S. hemispheric 160M operators. Stew was a QRO man.
     It is not to late to sponsor a plaque. Think it up. Email me and it
can happen. Otherwise ensure
that Mother Nature has not hurt your 160M abilities so that you will be
ready for the Stew Perry
TopBand DX Challenge brought to you by The Boring Amateur Radio Club.
     73 and I remain,
     Lew   w7ew
The Boring Amateur Radio Club Committee on Vitriol
w7ew at arrl.net
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