A quick update. Thor, TF4M has stepped up to the plate and sponsored
a plaque for the highest mobile score (for the next four years). You
must be able to make QSOs while in motion - so no fair backing your
car to your 4 square.
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Lew Sayre <w7ew@arrl.net> wrote:
> Yo Radio Rapscallions of the TopBand Variety,
> Tomorrow is the start of the 16th running of The Stew Perry TopBand Dx
> Challenge sponsored by The Boring Amateur Radio Club.
> Be there or be square. Fling some 160M energy into the air and see where it
> lands.
> Go to the Website and check out the rules. The rules are different
> than the usual rules. Read them. Memorize them.
> Quote them to your family loudly and often.
> http://jzap.com/k7rat/stew.html
> Listed below are the TopBand Thinkers and Shakers and Movers who have
> donated $55 for each plaque
> to reward some hard working TopBander for a particular achievement. Read
> the list and understand what they
> want and then compete. When you see any of these Stalwart Sponsors be sure
> to thank them and offer to buy them
> a beverage for their valor.
>
> Call Category
> KL7RA "Top Number of QSOs"
> North Pole Contest Club "Might be-Best Dressed Ham at Dayton"
> TF4M "Longest DX" (2 stations, each gets
> 1 plaque)
> W0UCE " Top Score USA/S-O/LP/single wire
> for Tx & Rx"
> KR2Q "Golden Log" (Top # of QSOs w/o
> a bust)
> K7FL "Top Score 100% Search & Pounce"
> N7UA "Top Score High Power"
> N2KW "Highest rate X 1 hour w/o
> bust" (Speed Demon)
> K6ND "K6SE Memorial-Top Score World"
> NA0Y "Top Score USA"
> F8BPN "Top Score EU- Low Power"
> EI4HQ "Perhaps you were Irish and
> didn't know it"
> (Top # of calls with sequential "EI" in them)
> N9ADG "Top Score Asia"
> AA6VB "Top Score base loaded vertical <
> 60' tall"
> AA6VB "Top Score Big
> City/Little Pistol-City>50K runniing <100W"
> KH6LC "VK-ZL Challenge- Top Score VK-ZL"
> W2GD Team "Top # NA + SA QSOs by EU station
> W0RI "Top Score West of
> Mississippi River"
> K7CA "Top Score Southern Hemisphere"
> K7CA "Top Score Japan"
> TF3KX "Aurora Borealis Award"- Top
> Score N of 60 deg North geomagnetic latitude
> GMCC (1) "Top Score S/O, Hi-Power Colorado
> or Wyoming"
> GMCC (1) "Top Score S/O, Low Power
> Colorado or Wyoming"
> N5IA "Most Grid Squares Worked"
> N0TT "Youngest USA Op > 100 QSOs"
> AC8AP "Top Score QRP"
> AC8AP "Longest DX QRP"
> KI7Y " Top Score World- 2X1 Call"
> K1EP "Top Score YL Operator
> VE9AA (2) "Eastern VE Op and a wire"
> VK6VZ "Top Score N. Hemisphere
> station working S. Hemisphere stations"
> (Winner gets official Flying Doctors of VK Baseball hat rather than
> plaque)
> 1)GMCC is the Grand Mesa Contest Club
> 2) Top Score Atlantic Canada at legal CW power level in Canada (750W
> CW in Canada), but must be a single wire,
> shunt fed tower or dipole/ inverted V. (No 4 squares, loops, phased arrays,
> curtains or yagis). No gain antennas in other words.
> (Dipoles accepted however). Also no RX Beverages, K9AY arrays or RX
> antennas of any kind. Just a man and his wire.
> This area would include VE1, VE9, VY2, VO1, VO2, CY0 and CY9
>
> If you are stricken by a perfect plaque idea then immediately let me
> know and I'll get it onto the final plaque listing.
> The category should be in a non-offensive vein and kept to a 1 sentence
> idea.
> The hundreds of members of The Boring Amateur Radio Club would like to
> thank the sponsors of the plaques
> and the Radio Operators who inhabit 160M for the great support and
> participation for The Stew Perry TopBand
> Challenge. See you in The Stew!
> 73 and I remain,
> Lew W7EW
> The Boring Amateur Radio Club Word Mangler
> w7ew(at)arrl(dot)net
> _______________________________________________
> UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
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