Topband: They gathered on 160 at night

[Mike Smith VE9AA]

By Mike VE9AA

 

They gathered on 160 at night

To have that friendly fight

The static it crashed

Some records got smashed

The grids logged were mostly right

 

Antennas were hung just before

In hopes for a chance to score

A plaque by the man

Dr. Beldar  (says a fan)

That wood for a temp antenna roar

 

Other prizes were put up for grabs

For enduring noise and the jabs

For doing so well

Scoring up a spell

A niche one you can surely nab

 

There's even one that's a hat

Can you all imagine that?

A plaque for Space 2001

By a top scorer it won't be won

Check listings at Stew Perry, stat!

 

This test lets you sleep in the day

So if you're a vampire you'll say

This is the one for you

To dodge the sun and stay true

For it's darkness that makes Dracula's day

 

A band where the wires are real long

And playing here ain't a sing-song

The noise can be bad

And strengths at times sad

But the DX is sometimes quite strong

 

You can run any ol' power you want

>From flea power to a big elephant

Multipliers will help span the gap

>From short Q's to DX on the map

Til BARC does the math our scores we won't flaunt

 

The grids over Morse they go

>From FN to CM or JO

All signals they do squeeze

Into bandwidths that make us wheeze

Hey, we don't do this game for the dough!

 

The challenge is where it's at

For 14 hours (or less) we sat

Yes we all read rule six

We tossed out telnet tricks

And 1-point-8 was worked til  flat

 

The 'Topband' as it's sometimes called

Where Gentlemen are always allowed

To show their fine stuff

Welcoming the nice (and gruff)

And thus everyone is quite enthralled

 

So the year has nearly ended

The log is carefully tended

The grids come and go

To the Boring c.o.

And Tree'll mix all the numbers fine blended

 

I hope that you all had fun

In this exchange of grids that get run

To honor Stew (and LowBand Jack) 

To the top of the dial and then back

On the band that's THE BEST, bar none

 

HNY 2021 !

 

 

Mike VE9AA

Mike, Coreen & Corey

Keswick Ridge, NB