December is upon us with Holidays, a recently completed CQWW-CW contest
and the upcoming Stew Perry TopBand DX Challenge- brought to you by The Boring
Amateur Radio Club. We have invited various propagation deities to allow us to
have the best contest yet. The Boring Amateur Radio Club encourages you to
participate in the ARRL 160M contest this weekend. It is a fine contest and
will probably whet your appetite for more action on the 160M Band which can be
satisfied by operating The Stew Perry TopBand DX Challenge for 14 hours out of
the possible 24 from 1500Z Dec. 18 to 1500Z Dec. 19 time period.
This contest is unlike others: The QSO points depend on the distance
between the two stations, final score utilizes factors relating to the power
you're running and also the power of the station you worked, stations compete
from all around the world, this as a CW only contest, grid squares are used as
part of the exchange and the participants determine what honors are important
by sponsoring certain categories memorialized by plaques.
http://web.jzap.com/k7rat/stew.html<http://web.jzap.com/k7rat/stew.html>
The above web page will answer your questions in more detail and will give
you sense of what this grand TopBand contest is all about.
Already TopBand stalwarts have been sending in their sponsorship for
plaques to be awarded as the result of this 9th running of The Stew Perry
TopBand DX Challenge. Listed below are the Plaque donors and the categories
they feel are important, so far.
Donor Category
KL7RA Top QSO Total
WA2DFI Top Score Single Op VE
W7EW Best DX distance
K7RAT Top Score Multi-Op World
VK6VZ The VK5AX Small Backyard Memorial- Top Score wid
antenna in space < 20mx10m or 66ft x 33ft. Winner gets coveted
Royal Flying Doctors Service of Australia hat
There are contesters out there right now deciding what category to
sponsor. Decide what is important to you and sponsor it! The Boring Amateur
Radio Club feels strongly that the participants shall decide. Challenge a buddy
across town or across an ocean for a category that describes you and sponsor
the plaque. The cost is a paltry $50.00. The donor's call is also forever
inscribed on the plaque which will hang in a place of honor in the winner's
abode. To set aside a particular category please email me at
leww@msn.com<mailto:leww@msn.com> with your idea and then send the funds to me
via CBA. First E-mailed-first gets it.
The plaques for the running of the 2003 edition of this fine test went
into the first class mail today, so they should be arriving soon. (Don't worry
Mau!)
So get out there and spiff up those Beverages and verticals and loops and
hunks of other conductive material and get ready for The Stew.
Updates of the sponsor list will be published weekly or so..which means
only a couple or three more times since the Stew Perry TopBand DX Challenge
will be a happening thing Dec. 18 - 19.
73 and I remain,
Lew W7EW/W7AT
Plaquemeister-Boring Amateur Radio Club
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