Calling all 160M Contesting Creatures,
        The Boring Amateur Radio Club is producing the
 11th edition of  The Stew Perry TopBand DX Challenge
 and  you should be there! All you really need is a radio,
 a hunk of  wire, vital signs and the time period off from
 1500Z December 30 until 1500Z December 31 or at least 14
 hours of this  time period preferably when it's dark.
 The rules and information are straightforward and can be
 found  at:          http://www.jzap.com/k7rat/stew.html
      This contesting extravaganza is unique in several
 areas: score per  Q based on distance, score enhancements
 for being low power or QRP or even working the peanut
 whistle types and  of course the ability of the contesting
 combatants themselves to honor heroic achievements by
 sponsoring plaques  produced by The Boring Amateur
 Radio Club. The famous, smart and good looking Hams listed
 below have  picked a particular category for this year's
 edition of the Test. All it cost them for this immortality
 is $50 and an  e-mail to me advising me of your desired
 sponsored category. The Boring  Amateur Radio Club
 reserves the right to suggest  an alternative category if
 the one you've picked  seems risqu? or perverse. Silly or
 stupid or clever is fine so the realm  of possibilities
 for your contesting brain is very large. You can join
 these Stalwarts by thinking up a category and e-mailing me
 and then sending the $50 pittance.
 This year's plaques and Sponsors are:
 
KL7RA               Highest Number of QSO's
 W7TMT               Top Score, Low Power, First time entry
 KB7Q                Top Score in Grid Field "DM"
 N5IA                Most Grid Squares worked
 N7JW                Top Score South of the Equator
 K7CA                Top Score Asiatic Russia
 N0TT                Top Score USA Op < 21 y/o & > 100 QSO
 VK6VZ               Top Score with antenna in a space <
 20m X 10m 
         winner receives an official Royal Flying Doctors
 of Australia cap NA0Y                Top Score USA
 K1PX                Top Score, Low Power, Europe
 K7FL                Top Score 100% Search and Pounce
 K8ND                Top Score, Single Op, Caribbean
 W7GNP/N7KQ          Top Score Central/South America GMCC Top Score by Station >4000' above sea level 
 level KR2Q                Top Score with Golden Log (no
 busts) N9ADG               We're considering several
 possibilities with this grant
 
   You may have noticed that this is a CW only contest.  If
 your code speed is nonexistent or the equivalent of not
 old enough to drive yet....don't despair!  Practice the
 magical  phrase  "QRS", slide up the band a bit and have
 at it. When a di-dah jockey goes too fast for  you, just
 whip out the QRS on him/her/it and they'll do it again
 slower. 
   The propagation gurus from The Kenai, Oklahoma, New Yurp
 , Singapore, Canada, California and Texas  all agree that
 the possibility for tremendous conditions exist for this
 year's edition of  The Stew Perry TopBand Challenge. So go
 put up a wire and set aside some personal respite time
 from all the Holiday blather and hub-bub so you can come
 out and play with us on Radio's almost toughest stage.
      73 and I remain,
       Lew   W7EW/W7AT
       The Boring Amateur Radio Club Vice President in
 charge of plaques, pizza and propagation
       w7ew@arrl.net