Topband: Good reason for multiple Stews

[Steve Ireland]

G’day

As a long-time supporter of the Stew Perry TBDC and donor of Royal Flying Doctor Service caps, it has been great fun reading the various responses to the Boring Amateur Radio Club’s innovation of the Spring Stew. Owing to the organisers’ sense of fun, even the criticism was funny and fun to read!  

One of the great things about the Stew Perry (or any contest for that matter) is that it gives us a chance to operate for a whole night-plus and experience conditions over this period – and learn.  

This year was no exception – I’ve never experienced an all-night pipeline into the Baltic in 20 years of 160m operation from Western Australia and to be able to observe how the strength of the pipeline ebbed and flowed was fascinating.

A Spring (northern hemisphere) Stew is going to be very interesting experience and I look forward to it.

Rick N6RK (I think) made a good point about southern hemisphere conditions.  In VK6, the period between spring and summer equinoxes is the best time by far for working into Europe and North America, but it is the noisiest half of the year by far.  We have many thunderstorms and the general atmospheric noise level is high.  Please run QRO in the Stew so we can hear you all ‘down under’/’down south’ – that will help to maintain/increase participation.

Vy 73

Steve, VK6VZ   



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