Topband: Stew Perry 2018

[Lew Sayre]

Greetings to TopBand Operators Worldwide,
      The 2018 running of the Stew Perry TopBand DX challenge is finished.
Now the
scoring work remains to be done. Please send in your log promptly!  You can
watch
your score grow as QRP and low power stations send in their logs. You will
receive a multiplication factor when you work a qrp or low power station for
that QSO.  You will find the initial results and the growing score base at:
http://www.kkn.net/stew/  which also tells you how to submit your log.
Please be
patient as all good things take a modicum of time to get started
     Our fearless log checker will be eagerly awaiting your logs so send
those logs in
today!
    The nearly complete plaque list is listed below. There may be a few
additions as Ops
consider honoring categories yet unseen and maybe a few deletions if the
funds aren't
 received to sponsor the plaque.    A big thank you to all the plaque
sponsors from
The Boring Amateur Radio Club.

KL7RA        Top # QSOs, S/O
EI2CN          W/K/N/VE/XE station with most QSOs with EI/British Isles
N9TF            Top Score QRP, from RF deprived Grids EN00 through EN79
N9TF            Top # Grids NA,S/O,QRP non-resonant antenna <40' above
                      ground
N9TF             Top Score USA,S/O,L/P-multi trap vertical, non-resonant on
  160M           no matching device for 160 on or at antenna, tuner in shack
     OK.
UX1UA           Top # SA + NA QSOs by Zone 16 Station
UX1UA           Top # QSOs with Zone 16 by NA Station
K7CA              Top Score Zone 22
K7CA              Top Score Zone 24

W2GD Team   Top # QSOs wid NA/SA by EU Station
KH6LC            Top Score From VK or ZL
K1EP               Top Score by Op 21 y/o or less
K2PO               Top Score, S/O, Low Power, Zone 3
K5WA               Top # Grids using minimally directional antennas-
      (random wire, inverted V or Loop, etc.)
K5WA                Top # Grids 100 watts or less
N7GP                 Top # NA Grids worked from Zone 25
VE9AA               Top Score 100w Mobile- (vehicle,radio, antenna all
      capable of actual highway travel. No need to sign /M)
WA6CDR             N5IA Memorial- Top # Grids Worked
NQ6N                   Highest score by Station working other Stations
        who are running 100 watts or less
EI4HQ                 Top Score, S/O, QRP
K6ND                   K6SE Memorial- Top Score, S/O, World
W7RH                  Top Score Asia, Low Power (100W or less)
K7FL                    Top Score 100% S & P
KR2Q                   Golden Log- Highest # QSOs with no busts
VK6GX                 Heroic Tropical QRN Fighters- (Top Score +/- 15 deg
                              of equator)
K2AV                    Master of The Small Lot- (Top Score from property
     containing all antennas =/< 1/4 acre, 1012 meters square, 10890 sq
ft)
WQ4RP                Top Score, Multi-Op, world, QRP
N7UA                    Top[ Score, S/O, High Power, World

VK6VZ       A Flying Doctors of VK Baseball cap for Top Score- Northern
Hemisphere  Station working Southern Hemisphere Stations.

     Thanks again for participating in the 22ed running of The Stew Perry
TopBand DX Challenge sponsored by The Boring Amateur Radio Club
with propagation provided by the cosmos, physics and  yet to be discovered
principles.
     73 and I remain,
  Lew    w7ew
The Boring Amateur Radio Club Committee on Fun
w7ew at arrl.net