By Mike VE9AA
They gathered on 160 at night To have that friendly fight The static it crashed Some records got smashed The grids logged were mostly right Antennas were hung just before In hopes for a chance to score A plaque by the man Dr. Beldar (says a fan) That wood for a temp antenna roar Other prizes were put up for grabs For enduring noise and the jabs For doing so well Scoring up a spell A niche one you can surely nab There's even one that's a hat Can you all imagine that? A plaque for Space 2001 By a top scorer it won't be won Check listings at Stew Perry, stat! This test lets you sleep in the day So if you're a vampire you'll say This is the one for you To dodge the sun and stay true For it's darkness that makes Dracula's day A band where the wires are real long And playing here ain't a sing-song The noise can be bad And strengths at times sad But the DX is sometimes quite strong You can run any ol' power you want >From flea power to a big elephant Multipliers will help span the gap >From short Q's to DX on the map Til BARC does the math our scores we won't flaunt The grids over Morse they go >From FN to CM or JO All signals they do squeeze Into bandwidths that make us wheeze Hey, we don't do this game for the dough! The challenge is where it's at For 14 hours (or less) we sat Yes we all read rule six We tossed out telnet tricks And 1-point-8 was worked til flat The 'Topband' as it's sometimes called Where Gentlemen are always allowed To show their fine stuff Welcoming the nice (and gruff) And thus everyone is quite enthralled So the year has nearly ended The log is carefully tended The grids come and go To the Boring c.o. And Tree'll mix all the numbers fine blended I hope that you all had fun In this exchange of grids that get run To honor Stew (and LowBand Jack) To the top of the dial and then back On the band that's THE BEST, bar none HNY 2021 ! Mike VE9AA Mike, Coreen & Corey Keswick Ridge, NB _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
