Greetings Utilizers of the Night Forces,
In 4 weeks the Stew Perry TopBand DX Challenge will be upon us. For
Amateur Radio Operators
who are not familiar with this event it is a 24 hour Morse Code test on
160M only, with the contest
participants exchanging their calls and Maidenhead Grid 4 digit locators
for 14 hours. For Amateur Radio Operators who
are familiar with this event... it is still the same thing. The Boring
Amateur Radio Club sponsors this contest
which utilizes a distance mnemonic to reward more points for a far away
contact than for a not so far away contact.
We have official rules and information about this Great Contest which
live at:http://jzap.com/k7rat/stew.html
This web site is currently hosed and non-functional presumably related
to the massive amounts of RF thrown
into the sky by the recently concluded CQWW-SSB and the Sweepstakeses. Our
cracker-jack team of web site
restorers will soon resuscitate the site so that you may study for
yourselves the event and its subtleties.
The plaque program for The Stew Perry TopBand Extravaganza is unique
in that The Boring Amateur Radio Club
does not decide what performances should be rewarded with wood. The radio
combatants do that by sponsoring
categories that they individually feel are important. These Stalwarts
choose the accomplishment that they want rewarded,
send or Paypal $55 to the Club and then the fight is on for that category.
Listed below are the Radio Operators already in
for 2011:
Call Category
KL7RA "Top Number of QSOs"
North Pole Contest Club "Being Cogitated"
TF4M "Longest DX" (2 stations, each get 1
plaque)
W0UCE " Top Score USA/S-O/LP/single wire for
Tx& Rx"
KR2Q "Golden Log" (Top # of QSOs w/o a
bust)
VK6VZ "Top Score N. Hemisphere station
working S. Hemisphere stations"
(Winner gets official Flying Doctors of VK Baseball hat rather
than plaque)
If you are an individual Sponsor then the community will recognize and
appreciate your efforts to stimulate the competition.
If you are a business then the community should swarm your website and
phones to buy all of your wares to reward you for the support!
An email to me inquiring about a particular category should get a
reasonably swift response and a place on this list of donors.
All categories will be screened for appropriateness by the Boring Amateur
Radio Club Committee on Smut Detection whose decisions are
usually final.
The plaques for the 2010 Stew Fray are all ready to be taken to the
Postal Authorities so they should be arriving at the winners' abodes soon.
The Boring Amateur Radio Club understands that ol' Sol has brought
life to 10M and even some 6M propagation. Ancient dogma suggests that these
conditions
hurt 160M but we know better. These conditions test the TopBand contestors
and direct them to even better technology and operating in order to make
the TopBand QSOs.
We at the Club also understand that the 16th running of The Stew
Perry TopBand Challenge is the week before Chistmas during the Holiday
season. What better way to
cope with the frenzy and panic that can permeate those times than to sit
down and work the world on TopBand for a while?
Start doing good deeds now to fill up the favor bank so that you can
withdraw the favored time to play in The Stew Perry. See You in The Stew!
73 and I remain,
Lew W7EW
The Boring Amateur Radio Club Plaquerer
w7ew(at)arrl(dot)net
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