Boring Amateur Radio Club
Stew Perry Topband Distance Challenge

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The Stew Perry Topband Distance Challenge has established itself as the “friendly” 160 meter contest. While it enjoys strong activity, the band is slightly less crowded than the major 160 meter contests. This provides more opportunities for the “non super stations” to make intercontinental QSOs.

The next Stew Perry is coming on December 27^th/28th 2008. Click here for full rules.

The pre-Stew event will be held on October 18^th/19^th 2008. This event was initially held in 2006 and was a great warm up for the main event. It also helped demonstrate how good the band is earlier in the Topband season.

Times for both events are 1500Z to 1500Z. Operate a maximum of 14 hours. Exchange your four digit grid square.

Cabrillo logs for both events get submitted to tbdc@contesting.com. We will try to take logs with or without RSTs in them this year… although the Cabrillo format for this contest includes an RST field (just put 599). This is because the definition was done back when the first contest was run – which did include an optional RST in the exchange.

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Here is what you probably are looking for:

• NEW!! Results of the 2007 event.
• NEW!! Results of the 2008 PreStew
• History of Stew Perry from June 1977 issue of 73 Magazine (Cover, Page58, Page59, Page60, Page61, Page62) – thanks WA5POK for scans.
• Plaques sponsored for the 2008 event (thanks W7EW).
• Rules - for the 2008 running on December 27th/28th - and the warm-up event on October 18th/19th.
• Records – maintained by K1PX.
• Results of the Pre-Stew event held on October 20/21^st 2007.
• Results of the 2006 event.
• Results of the 2005 event
• Results of the 2004 event
• Details of the Chemical Elements Plaque
• Results of the 2003 event.
• Results of the 2002 event
• Results of the 2001 event
• Results of the 2000 event.
• Results for the 1999 event
• Results from the 1998 event
• Results from the 1997 event
• Results from the 1996 event
• SPSCORE.EXE - A program that you can use to calculate your QSO points in the Stew Perry contest. Please note that it is not necessary for you to do this in order to submit your log.  All logs will have their QSO points recalculated during the log checking process.
• INSTEW.EXE - A program that allows you to quickly enter the callsigns and received grids from a Stew Perry paper og and create a Cabrillo file.  You can then e-mail that file to tbdc@contesting.com to submit your log.

Here is something you probably were not looking for:

• Boring Amateur Radio Club Home Page
• N6TR's Topband Web Page
• A very FB web page talking about Stew (thanks K1ZM)

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