Topband: TopBand: Stew Perry Challenge
So everyone is eagerly anticipating the Stew Perry Challenge in less than 24 hours. Please can I ask that as this also coincides with part of the RAC Winter Contest, please give VE stations a serial number as well as your grid square - I will be asking VE stations to do likewise and give Grid Squares on 160m as well as their province. Thanks and good luck in the SPC. -- Tony VE3RZ _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
Re: Topband: Stew Perry Challenge
I second your sentiments Eddy! One of my favorite contests. Very fair across the board. I was hoping for a bigger turnout from the locals in Eastern VE with wires,(competing for the local plaque) but everyone was pooped from the RAC contest, so there was only a small turnout. Reading some of the comments here, and on 3830 I recognized some QRPers, so it does my heart good that I worked some, just using the inverted L. If there was anyone that I missed, I would be curious to find out who. Mike VE9AA - Original Message - From: Eddy Swynar To: topband@contesting.com Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2011 3:04 PM Subject: Topband: Stew Perry Challenge My thanks to the Boring Amateur Radio Club for its continued sponsorship of this fun event on Topband... While I hardly set the 160-meter world up on its ear with my meagre effort here, I certainly enjoyed the time that I spent on the air, was pleased to hand-out FN03 to any all comers. It was especially gratifying for me, personally, to be able to dig-out some of the weaker stations out of the noise that I did---I suspect that there were more than a few QRP contestants in this year's fray, compared to other years...! ~73~ de Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.454 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/4087 - Release Date: 12/17/11 19:33:00 ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
Topband: Stew Perry Challenge
My thanks to the Boring Amateur Radio Club for its continued sponsorship of this fun event on Topband... While I hardly set the 160-meter world up on its ear with my meagre effort here, I certainly enjoyed the time that I spent on the air, was pleased to hand-out FN03 to any all comers. It was especially gratifying for me, personally, to be able to dig-out some of the weaker stations out of the noise that I did---I suspect that there were more than a few QRP contestants in this year's fray, compared to other years...! ~73~ de Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
Re: Topband: Stew Perry Challenge
On Sun, 2011-12-18 at 14:04 -0500, Eddy Swynar wrote: My thanks to the Boring Amateur Radio Club for its continued sponsorship of this fun event on Topband... While I hardly set the 160-meter world up on its ear with my meagre effort here, I certainly enjoyed the time that I spent on the air, was pleased to hand-out FN03 to any all comers. It was especially gratifying for me, personally, to be able to dig-out some of the weaker stations out of the noise that I did---I suspect that there were more than a few QRP contestants in this year's fray, compared to other years...! ~73~ de Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK Hi Eddy, I am not ever going to set any contest on it's ear just from my relaxed attitude about contests. I got into it to exercise my station and to have some fun. Whenever I have been in a contest I just give the winners another QSO to add to their scores evil grin. The hams that took the trouble to work my weak signal got four points for getting my QRP entry in their logs. Some of them had to work for it. There was lots of QRM sometimes to help make it more challenging. I was surprised that some of the weaker stations I worked completed the exchange with one transmission while some of the stronger stations we had to try several times. I thought I heard your call last night but I looked at my scratch pad where all the calls I tried to work are listed whether or not I could complete a QSO. It's not there. Paper logs are still working for my lightweight contest efforts. I'm not gunning for ten QSOs per minute, I can write on the papers and sip coffee in between contacts. Lessons learned: On top band work 'em while the band is open - sleep later. I saw some pretty strong stations fade out even while I was getting ready to pounce. After I slept a while the band was not viable here. Be ready for Murphy! I'll try to have more radios waiting as spares eyeballing the DX-100 on the bench awaiting overhaul. I spent more time repairing my transmitter than operating during the Stew. 73, Bill KU8H ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
