[RDXA] The 18th Stew Perry TopBand Challenge

[Paul Mackanos - K2DB]

Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 21:21:09 -0800

From: Lew Sayre <w7ew at arrl.net>

To: topband at contesting.com, cq-contest at contesting.com

Subject: [CQ-Contest] The 18th Stew Perry TopBand Challenge

 

     Greetings to all TopBand Operators,

    The Boring Amateur Radio Club is happy to announce the 18th running of

the

Stew Perry TopBand Challenge. It will be held publicly starting 1500Z 28

December

to 1500Z December 29, 2013. This contest will utilize 160M only and

requires the

contestants to use CW or Morse Code. You have a bit over a month to learn

the code

if you'd like to participate. No semaphore, no SSB, no RTTY, no drones.

Just good old

fashioned dits and dahs floating through the cold darkness. 25 WPM is about

right.

     The exchange is simply your call and your operating position's grid

square. Signal reports

are optional. This contest utilizes your transmit power and distance based

mnemonic to arrive

at your score. It is the fairest scored contest in the galaxy as you get

more points for working

another station very far away as compared to working somebody close. The

rules live at:

      http://www.kkn.net/stew/

      Amazing rules such as receiving 2X points for working a low power

station and 4X points for

working a QRP station are found here. So it does pay to turn up the hearing

aids and ask just

one more time for that weak whisper of a call that you might have heard. It

also helps to send in

your log even if you think it really doesn't amount to much as it helps the

overall scoring process.

     Another facet developed by The Boring Amateur Radio Club is that all

plaques awarded are

dreamed up and sponsored by the radio contestants. If you think a category

is important to

emphasize and it could be discussed at a church social, then for the paltry

sum of $60 you could

have your call listed below with these Stalwarts of Contesting.

 

KL7RA             Top # of QSOs

KL7RA              Top Score,S/O, North America

W2GD Team     Top # NA+SA QSOs by EU Station

TF4M                Longest 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

 

     If I have omitted anyone, please email me directly and I'll rectify

things. If you have a category that

you would like to sponsor, then utilize the address at the bottom of this

note.

     Start now to obtain the time off from your usual duties. This year the

contest is cleverly timed

and just might be the needed tonic to get you through the grueling times

typically known as the "Happy

Holidays".

     The plaques for last year's Stew Perry TopBand Challenge sponsored by

The Boring Amateur Radio

Club, have been finished by the little old plaquemaker and will be sent out

this week to the winners.

     Further email epistles will be forthcoming as the list of plaque

donors grows and the categories that

can be created by the brilliant minds of 160M radio operators will be

displayed.

   73 and I remain,

   Lew Sayre   W7EW

The Boring Amateur Radio Club Plaque Monger

w7ew at arrl.net

 

 

 

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