Hello 160M Operators, Contesters, DXers and Mutants, The Boring Amateur Radio Club reminds you of the upcoming Stew Perry TopBand Distance Challenge happening Dec. 28-29. This contest is unique and adheres to very fair and thoughtful rules which are found at: http://www.kkn.net/stew/ The basic idea is that you make more points for contacting a very distant station as compared to contacting a closer one. Plus you get extra points for contacting low power and qrp stations. Multiply those ideas times many contacts and you make a good score and have a good time while doing it. The Boring Amateur Radio Club also encourages the radio combatants to come up with categories of operating that is important to the contesters. $60 is the cost to sponsor a plaque that will be vigorously fought over. The Radio Operators listed below are heroes who have proposed a category for a plaque for the 2013 edition of The Stew Perry. If you meet up with one of these stalwarts be sure to thank them and offer to buy them a beverage. If you meet up with two of them, then that makes a party.
Sponsor Category 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 latitude CE1/K7CA Top Score Southern Hemisphere CE1/K7CA Top Score Japan K1EP Top Score First Time Entrant K2PO Top Score,S/O, Low Power Zone 3 K6ND Top Score World- K6SE Memorial W7RH Top Score, Low Power, Asia K7FL Top Score 100% Search and Pounce VK6VZ Highest # of contacts made by N. Hemisphere working S. Hemisphere. -Winner gets Flying Doctors of VK baseball hat We sometimes field questions about the timing of The Stew Perry TopBand Distance Challenge. It is held this time of year due to the physics of radio propagation- not because we are anti-holiday. We understand that the crafty, wise 160M Op who wants to participate in this fine radio contest needs to plan carefully his/her December time to get the 14 hours necessary to operate in this friendly contest. If you'd like to sponsor a plaque or discuss a plaque idea then please email me at the address below. We appreciate good taste and measurable endpoints for the plaques. More epistles will be sent to the reflectors about The Stew Perry TopBand Distance Challenge sponsored by The Boring Amateur Radio Club as indicated. 73 and I remain, Lew w7ew The Boring Amateur Radio Club Plaquer w...@arrl.net _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband