Greetings to the Static Quo Operators of our Solar System, The Boring Amateur Radio Club is pleased to invite you to participate in the Stew Perry TopBand DX Challenge commencing 1500Z Dec. 26 and running to 1500Z Dec. 27, 2015. Our friendly contest is a 160M CW (Morse Code) contest where you can enjoy TopBand jousting for 14 hours out of the 24 hours available. Our Club suggests that you operate during your times of darkness because for various reasons contestors seem to make more and further away QSOs on 160M when the sun is below their horizon. Go figure. Also this contest uses a distance mnemonic to figure out the score rather than the silly multipliers the old fashion contests utilize. You actually get more points for contacting another station way far away as compared to another closer station. What a concept! The rules for this stellar event live at www.kkn.net/stew/ Read them as there exists even more innovations to make The Stew Perry the fairest contest in civilization. One of the tenets of this contest is that the participants decide what feats of radio heroism deserves to be immortalized by a wooden plaque. Listed below are the radio stalwarts who are sponsoring a plaque and the criteria for their category.
KL7RA Top # of QSOs North Pole Contest Group To be decided K7FL/5H2DA Top Score 100% Search & Pounce KR2Q Golden Log Award N0TT Top Score < 21y/o, >200 QSOs K7CA Top Score China TF3KX Aurora Borealis Award- Top Score North of 60 deg N geomagnetic Latitude Dr. Beldar-L1AR Top Score,S/O, Temp Antenna erected after Dec.14 VK6VZ- Flying Doctors of Top Score- N. Hemisphere station working VK Baseball hat S. Hemisphere stations You 160M thinkers can join this group by sending to me a category and $60 ($63 if PayPal) per plaque. The category should uphold the highest values of morality and ethics while honoring an aspect of radio contesting. All decisions of appropriateness are final as determined by The Boring Amateur Radio Club Committee on Honesty, Virtue and Beverages. We understand The Stew Perry TopBand DX Challenge is the day after Christmas this year. What better way for you to escape the holiday maelstrom by joining the 160M believers for some friendly ditting and dawing? Start by doing great acts of helpfulness to your loved ones now in order to have a bit of dark time off for The Stew. There will be further bulletins from The Boring Amateur Radio Club as the plaque list expands and to bring attention to The Stew Perry TopBand Extravaganza 73 and I remain, Lew w7ew The Boring Amateur Radio Club Announcer w...@arrl.net _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband