Greetings Contesters or Wannabes of Top Band, The ARRL 160M contest is over and was pretty darn good. The participants have in mind what needs to be done for the final station systems preparation for The Stew Perry Top Band DX Challenge. If you don't have a working system you have until Dec 17, when the starting gong for The Stew is struck at Club HQ to brew up one up. You can do it! Where else can you sit for hours while it is dark outside listening to static while picking the sound shrapnel out of the cacophony while using physics in its finest form? The rules are unique and pretty clear. Go memorize them here: http://www.kkn.net/stew/ Read them critically and you'll see contesting in a different light. The Boring Amateur Radio Club sponsors The Stew Perry and the contestants sponsor plaques to spur on and reward the combatants for great radio feats performed during The Challenge. The sponsors and categories listed below are to be congratulated and thanked for their creativeness and support. You can become a listed Stalwart also by emailing me with your plaque idea and the $60 or $63 to make it happen. You can do it now.
KL7RA Top # of QSOs by a S/O N0TT Top Score, S/O, <21Y/O, > 200 QSOs K7CA Top Score S/O China K7CA Top Score S/O CQ Zone 24,27 or 28 KH6LC VK/ZL Challenge- Top S/O VK-ZL AA6VB Top Score Big City >50K, Little Pistol <100W AA6VB Top Score Base Loaded Vertical < 60' tall N6TQ/A25TQ California Dreaming- Top # of QSOs with Cal VK0EK Stations by a non-California station Rochester DX Assoc Top Score,S/O, L-P, Outside N. America UX1UA Top # NA + SA QSOs by Zone 16 station K7FL Top Score 100% Search and Pounce K9JWV/WC7S Top QRP Score,West of Mississippi,wire antennas Dr. Beldar-L1AR Top Score,S/O, Temporary Antenna erected > Dec.3 (All parts of temporary antenna including radials must be installed after Dec. 3, 2016. This antenna must be the only antenna for TopBand at the station and may be left erected because as we all know "temporary" means "until I die" KR2Q Golden Log Award K2PO Top Score, S/O, Low Power Zone 3 N6TR Top Score, S/O, Hi-Power CN Grid Field W2GD Team Top # QSOs, NA/SA by a European Station VK6VZ VK6HD Memorial- Top Score by N. hemisphere station working S. hemisphere stations. Winner gets a new, fresh Flying Doctors of VK baseball hat This year the time until The Stew is very short so please get those chores and promises done soon so you can spend an unencumbered night flinging and catching grid squares from anywhere that the Laws of Physics allow 160M radio waves to propagate. Don't see a category yet that quickens your pulse? Sponsor one and perhaps make it personal with your radio peers. Only the entire 160M radio Community will be noticing and participating. Just remember to include what plaques you are competing for in your comments section of your log submission. We're pretty good at putting on radio contests but not so hot at mind reading. 73 and I remain, Lew w7ew The Boring Amateur Radio Club Committee on Stew Stuff w...@arrl.net _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband