Greetings to Top Band Men, Women and undecided, The starting gong for the 20th Edition of The Stew Perry TopBand DX Challenge will go off at 1500Z, Dec 26 and the ending gong will happen at 1500Z Dec. 27. In between these times grid square gladiators will utilize cunning, wit, resolve, Morse code and some immutable laws of physics for 14 hours out of the 24 to joust with similar TopBand believers in the most unique radio contest available. Why is The Stew Perry TopBand DX Challenge unique? Just manipulate your monitor over to this site and read all about it! www.kkn.net/stew/ The list below reveals available plaques and their very smart sponsors who have sharpened their senses and opened their pocketbooks to make available actual wooden and metal plaques denoting categories of radio rapture that will be awarded for certain performances during The Stew. These sponsors are radio stalwarts and should be accorded great respect for their foresight. It is never too late for you to sponsor a plaque. Just email me with your category, find and send $60 to us and you will have joined a very elite group of radiowave wranglers.
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 UX1UA Top # NA + SA Qs by Zone 16 station UX1UA USA station with top # Qs with Zone 16 K6ND K6SE Memorial- Top Score World S/O K1EP Top LP score between 30deg N & 40deg N lat (any station located in xM## gridsquare) KH6LC VK/ZL Challenge- Top Score S/O, VK/ZL N6TQ/A25TQ California Dreaming- Top # Qs with Calif stations by a non California station. W2GD Team Top # Qs, NA/SA by European Station W7RH Top Score, Low Power, Asia K7CA Top Score from Zone 24, 27 or 28 K7CA Top Score from either Zone 19 or 25 FWDXA KL7RA Memorial- Top Score, LP, Central Division NA0Y Top Score North America N9TF Top Score, North America, S/O, QRP Rochester DX Assoc. Top Score,Low Power,S/O, Outside N. America N7UA Top Score High Power Niagara Frontier Radiosport Top Score,S/O,Low Power,Single Antenna TF4M Longest High Power QSO N6TR KL7RA Memorial- Top Score, Hi Power, CQ Zone1 The Boring Amateur Radio Club asks the radio combatants to be sure to add to their comments in their log submission what plaque or plaques they are trying to win. We are powerfully prescient in many areas, such as knowing that most plaque winners will do the majority of their operating while the sky is dark outside. However you will need to tell us if you have particular plaque aspirations, Please alert your DX friends of the many plaques available only to selected DX areas. Nothing like having the Plaque of the Dancing Rat on your wall to amaze your friends and consternate your friendly competitors. There will be another notice to the 160M public noting even more plaques appearing, usually the day of The Stew Perry TopBand Dx Challenge, unless I'm outside repairing various wires damaged by Thor, Anemoi, Zeus or my slightly deranged neighbor John. So again, it is never too late to sponsor a plaque for this evocative event. 73 and I remain, Lew w7ew Boring Amateur Radio Club Committee on Subtleties w...@arrl.net _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband