160M Contesters, DXers, ragchewers and lesser lights, The Boring Amateur Radio Club is reminding you about The Stew Perry TopBand Distance Challenge which ignites Dec 28 at 1500Z and runs for 24 hours. This is an "old school" contest emphasizing the operator's abilities to tune, run and efficiently operate an amateur radio station while utilizing the freshest, fairest rules in all the galaxy emphasizing a distance mnemonic in scoring the results. There are a bunch of other excellent rules that you just don't find most anywhere else. Please guide your browser to http://www.kkn.net/stew/ and appreciate a role model for what contests will become. The Boring Amateur Radio Club is more than just a pretty face. We also emphasize the roles of the individual radio combatants in choosing which plaques are important to be noted. Listed below are radio heroes who have picked out a category and put their $60 where their ideas are. You can do that too even if you know nothing about 160M but recognize a good contest when you see one.
KL7RA Top # of QSOs KL7RA Top Score,S/O, North America W2GD Team Top # NA+SA QSOs by EU Station TF4M Longest Distance QSO- both ends get a plaque- TF4M Top Score 160M mobile (station has to be able to move) N0TT Top Score <21 years old with > 200 QSOs N5IA Most Grids worked N5IA Top Score Daylight only( use a second call) KH6LC VL/ZL Challenge- Top Score VK/ZL K5WA Top Score S/O, Low Power, Americas K5WA Top Score S/O, Low Power, Europe NA0Y Top Score USA TF3KX Aurora Borealis Award- Top Score N of 60N geomagnetic latitiude CE1/K7CA Top Score Southern Hemisphere CE1/K7CA Top Score Japan VK6VZ Highest # of contacts made by N. Hemisphere working S. Hemisphere. -Winner gets Flying Doctors of VK baseball hat This week, while the weather is absolutely atrocious, will be the optimum time to perfect your antennas. or wires, or installation, or significant other's attitude for readying yourself for The Stew Perry TopBand Distance Challenge. Our friends at the ARRL have a nice little 160M contest this weekend for you to test things out in advance of The Stew. We at The Boring Amateur Radio Club urge you to get on and dit and dah around. If you blow something up or catch something on fire this weekend then you'll have time to have everything functional for The Stew Perry. If you have questions, particularly about The Stew, please send them to the club and I'll get it to the correct committee for the correct answer. If you have a plaque idea that isn't just like any of the above sponsored plaques then send me an email and we can work it up shipshape. All it takes is $60 and be approved by a former Sunday School teacher who really believes that the devil is in the details. There will be more announcements as the plaque list becomes longer. 73 and I remain, Lew w7ew The Boring Amateur Radio Club Committee on Cool Contests w...@arrl.net _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband