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 <w...@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 _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK