A fine evening

Results, Sixth Annual (2001) Stew Perry Topband Distance Challenge

Boring Amateur Radio Club – K7RAT

15125 SE Bartell Road

Boring, OR 97009 k7rat@kkn.net

It was a cold winter evening near the end of the year. You throw another log on the fire, go upstairs and slip on a comfortable pair of headphones. Turning some knobs result in familiar sounding radio waves being converted into dits and dahs that mean nothing to most people.

Perhaps you heard OQ4UN - a call you have never heard before. You know instantly who is behind the key, and you flash back to your last meeting at Dayton. Maybe you are lucky to hear one of the two VK6's - not many people were this year. Almost certainly, you hear W8JI or W2GD, the two big beacons on the east coast.

You fire up the transmitter and start calling some of your friends. You have worked them all many times before, but in these days of sunspots, you haven't heard many of them on the band as much. They start coming back to you, and you notice that the ones that are further away give you more QSO points. It reminds you of when you were a novice - keeping track of your best DX. You start trying to work as many of the west coast stations as you can - because you get 8 points for them, as opposed to 2 points for another east coast station.

After a few hours, you turn off the radio and sneak into bed. You are asked: "Did you have fun?”. For many, it appears the answer was yes.

Like a good wine, there are good years and better years. We are currently in the good years for 160 meters. The better ones are coming. However, even though we have had disappointing propagation for the past few Stew Perry events, it continues to grow in participation. This growth helps to offset the decreasing propagation and scores have remained almost constant. When the band improves during the next few years, and everyone can hear most everyone else again, we should see an explosion in the scores. We had exactly 300 logs submitted, which is more than ever before.

The Europe to USA path was once again almost non-existent. OQ4UN did manage 65 NA QSOs, but wore out his Ouji board pulling out the callsigns. W8JI and

VE1ZZ were very weak at John's QTH. The Multi-Single at W2GD setup at a new QTH and managed 65 DX QSOs with 33 different countries. The stations in Australia and Southeast Asia had a harder time this year. YC0LOW only managed to put 4 QSOs in the log. However, K6SE did manage to work Singapore – which is even more surprising when you consider Earl was running low power.

There were 35 brave souls who attempted this contest with 5 watts or less. With the new rule allowing a 2X multiplier for stations working a QRP station – there was extra incentive to dig out the weak signals. K4JA and KE9I put 23 QRP stations into their log and K4OAQ, W2GD and K8ND had 22. The top QRP score was Jeff, K1ZM with Al, K7CA right on his heels. Rich, K5NA came in third with only 10 percent less of a score. It is amazing how close these three scores are considering one came from each coast and the third from the middle of the country. GM3POI tried the QRP category this time, and had the overall top DX score. His QSO with VK6VZ with only 5 watts is the longest QRP QSO made in the contest.

In the popular low power category, W5TM made the best of being able to work both coasts to win the category. Second place went to our certificate awards manager K1PX from the east and third place went to WA7LNW from the west coast. Again, we have good dispersion across the country with the top three scores. G4VGO had the top low power DX score. K8ND worked 85 low power stations and KE9I worked 84.

In the shack warming high power category, K4JA edge out KH6ND for the top score. FM5BH was a welcome addition to this contest and posted the third place high power score. OQ4UN, who “wrote the book”, was the European high power winner.

In the multi-single category, K6SE used the 2X power multiplier to beat W2GD. The W2GD team worked VK6VZ/6 for the longest QSO made during the contest.

One of the attractions of this contest is the plaque program sponsored by many of the participants. Our Boring hats are off to the 27 of you that sponsored this year’s awards. We do not award more than one plaque per person, so if you win the Top Score in the world, someone else will win the plaque for the top score in your geographical area.

It would appear that the Boring Amateur Radio Club went off their rocker by sponsoring a combined 160 and 6 meter plaque. Something was mentioned about “bands with 6’s in them”. This plaque was won by K7RAT (raising further suspicion), with a combined score of 3,262 points. This was a result of a great opening into Japan that netted 117 QSOs with point values in the mid to upper teens. N8PR had a great run into Europe during the last couple of hours of the contest and had 89 QSOs. However, when he noticed the contest ended before the opening, he fell short of K7RAT’s point total.

NA0N employed good planning to end up with the score closer to the numeric average of the scores than anyone else. He just nudged out W9YS. The numeric average was 723.1. Is this the first time a truly average score has won a plaque?

Shortly after the contest – a robot was programmed to process the electronic logs. This was not well planned – but a large number of you did “dance with the robot” and submitted your score using the Cabrillo format. This really saved a lot of work for the log checking department. We expect to have the robot QRV for all of the logs next time. Some of the logging programs had a few bugs to work our concerning the Cabrillo format (including TR Log). Please make sure you have updated software this year. All logs will be directed to the robot and if your passes the test, you will receive a confirmation number. If you have problems, please e-mail k7rat@kkn.net for help.

Log checking reports are available via e-mail to k7rat@kkn.net or SASE to the K7RAT callbook address.

The Seventh running of this great event will be on December 28^th and 29^th. The rules will be the same as last year. You can find complete information, including the rules and sponsored plaques at our website http://www.kkn.net/stew.html.

Thanks again for all of the participation. See you on the Top Band this winter.

Sponsor	Category	Winner
1. ND3A	Top Score, Single-Op, World	K5NA
2. ND3A	Top Score, Single-Op, High-Power, Oceania	KH6ND
3. N5OT	Top Score, Single-Op, High-Power, World	K4JA
4. QSLs by N0TT	Top Score, Single-Op, Age < 21, QSOs > 50	None
5. AA8U	Top Score, Single-Op, QRP, W8 Call Area	N8XP
6. K7CA	Top Score, Single-Op, South America	PY2FUS
7. W7GG	Top Score, Single-Op, > 60 years of age	W7GG
8. N5IA	Top Grid Total, Single-Op	K8ND
9. WA9IRV	Top Score, Single-Op, Maine, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.	N1RJ
10. K1FK	Calcutta Award, Top Score, Single-Op, Ohio, VE4, Wisconsin, Minnesota and North Dakota.	WJ0M
11. Low Band Monitor	Top Score, Single-Op, North America	K7CA
12. K1PX	Top Score, Single-Op, Low-Power, Europe	G4VGO
13. KJ9C	Top Score, Single-Op, U.S.A. Black Hole (> 800 miles from Ocean)	N0TT
14. WA2DFI	Top Score, Single-Op, Canada	VE3KP
15. AA4NN	Top Score, Single-Op, High-Power, Europe	OQ4UN
16. Boring Amateur Radio Club	Top Score, Single-Op, Combined 160 and 6 Meters, World	K7RAT
17. KI7Y	Top Score, Single-Op, USA West Coast (California, Oregon and Washington).	W7GG
18. K7RAT	Top Score, Multi-Op, World	K6SE
19. N6TR	Top Score, Single-Op, Low-Power	W5TM
20. W7EW	Top Score, Single-Op, QRP	K5NZ
21. KL7RA	Top QSO Total	KE9I
22. Horned Toads Wireless	Top Score, Single-Op, Mexico	None
23. W4SAA	Top Score, Single-Op, USA	K5NA
24. N7JW	Top Score, Single-Op, Japan	JA2ZJW
25. WA4TT	Top Score, Single-Op, Asia (excluding Japan)	4X3A
26. W5GN	Average Score Award: Score that comes closest to numerical average of all scores.	NA0N
27. K8ND	Top Score, Single-Op, Caribbean	FM5BH

Multi operator - Low power

CALL C P GRID RAW DUPE BUST QSO PTS GRD CALL -BEST DX- KM QRP LOW

K6SE M L DM15 296 1 13 282 3334 157 9V1PC 14040 17 50

VE3OSZ M L FN25 233 0 1 232 1466 115 G0IVZ 5059 11 56

JA9SSY M L PM86 28 0 0 28 568 20 N7DD 9612 0 4

Multi operator - High power

CALL C P GRID RAW DUPE BUST QSO PTS GRD CALL -BEST DX- KM QRP LOW

W2GD M H FM29 458 6 17 435 2054 213 VK6VZ/6 18974 22 74

K8ND M H EN80 445 5 11 429 1490 179 ZL3IX 13941 22 85

K6NDV M H DM04 242 0 2 240 1324 129 JH6OPP 9536 16 44

HA3KNA M H JN96 78 0 3 75 219 55 K4JA 7515 0 12

JA3YBK M H PM84 19 1 0 18 192 14 NI6T 8689 0 2

Single operator - QRP power

CALL C P GRID RAW DUPE BUST QSO PTS GRD CALL -BEST DX- KM QRP LOW

K1ZM S Q FN51 264 4 0 260 4172 132 KH6ND 8461 11 53

K7CA S Q DM37 222 0 0 222 4076 117 JA2ZJW 9257 15 41

K5NA S Q EM10 246 2 1 243 3624 129 KH6ND 6214 14 54

N0TT S Q EM29 240 1 6 233 2956 129 K7MI 2531 17 55

GM3POI S Q IO88 163 0 1 162 2512 103 VK6HD 14922 0 24

K5NZ S Q EM20 162 0 0 162 2352 105 KH6ND 6404 8 38

NO9Z S Q EN60 226 4 7 215 2320 117 K7MI 3139 13 53

KD7AEE S Q DN31 168 7 4 157 2124 88 KH6ND 4828 7 31

K5IUA S Q EL29 102 0 1 101 1476 74 FM5BH 3864 3 28

WJ9B S Q FM06 142 0 2 140 1452 85 G0IVZ 5925 8 36

N2IC S Q DN70 104 0 1 103 1448 72 K1AR 2829 7 27

N7IR S Q DM43 92 0 0 92 1404 62 JA2ZJW 9679 7 15

W7QC S Q CN87 105 0 2 103 1328 57 KH6ND 4322 4 14

N2WK S Q FN03 131 5 4 122 1196 73 N6RO 3540 6 38

N6WG S Q CM87 97 1 3 93 1052 49 KH7A 3616 7 17

N9NE S Q EN54 101 0 4 97 948 67 N5RZ 1890 7 31

N4ROA S Q EM86 82 0 1 81 892 62 K7QQ 3488 11 23

WS4S S Q EM76 189 95 6 88 824 63 W7GG 3151 6 25

N9IJ S Q EN52 92 1 4 87 772 65 N5RZ 1740 3 26

N0FP S Q EN25 51 0 2 49 696 39 K6NDV 2372 4 13

W1CSM S Q FN42 81 1 1 79 608 45 N9JF 1712 3 15

K6XX S Q CM97 51 0 1 50 504 28 KH6ND 4053 5 11

N0UR S Q EN35 35 0 1 34 320 27 K7CA 1885 2 9

VE3WZ S Q FN03 40 0 1 39 284 30 WD5R 1359 0 9

OM6AJO S Q JN99 44 0 2 42 276 30 G4BJM 1439 0 7

VE3OIL S Q EN93 37 1 5 31 240 24 K5RX 1778 1 5

N8XP S Q EM79 63 0 33 30 228 27 KR1DX 1406 1 7

K6III S Q CM87 28 0 0 28 200 17 N7DD 1227 2 4

DL1LAW S Q JN59 25 0 0 25 200 21 RZ9AYA 3429 0 3

SM1HPV S Q JO97 20 0 0 20 196 18 RZ9AYA 2649 0 5

W0ODS S Q EN32 19 0 0 19 168 18 K1KI 1641 1 5

KG6ECI S Q CM97 16 0 0 16 132 12 W7AWA 1233 4 3

N2NU S Q FN20 15 0 2 13 100 11 WD5R 1509 1 2

KD7CTF S Q CN85 10 0 0 10 48 6 W6EU 686 0 1

W3ZMN S Q FN20 11 0 2 9 36 7 K4OAQ 617 0 2

Single operator - Low power

CALL C P GRID RAW DUPE BUST QSO PTS GRD CALL -BEST DX- KM QRP LOW

W5TM S L EM15 346 1 2 343 2422 162 KH6ND 6166 21 69

K1PX S L FN31 306 0 1 305 2058 149 OQ4UN 5672 17 65

WA7LNW S L DM37 241 0 15 226 2042 121 JA4DEN 9528 13 47

W7GG S L CN94 231 3 11 217 2036 121 FM5BH 6523 17 47

WB9Z S L EN60 303 1 7 295 1992 145 VK6VZ/6 17974 18 70

K4RO S L EM66 335 8 3 324 1858 146 FM5BH 3551 19 71

WJ0M S L EN36 270 0 11 259 1816 132 FM5BH 4632 16 64

WA9IRV S L EN54 288 7 1 280 1766 144 KH6ND 6801 19 61

G4VGO S L JO02 194 1 9 184 1764 126 W8JI 6885 2 29

W0QE S L DM79 241 1 3 237 1758 128 KH6ND 5465 14 48

N9JF S L EM49 280 0 5 275 1604 140 KH7A 6387 17 66

KB1EAX S L FN32 270 0 8 262 1548 124 OQ4UN 5603 17 56

K7LFY S L EM15 262 1 20 241 1546 132 PY2FUS 8390 14 57

G3WPH S L IO91 190 6 3 181 1478 117 W8JI 6791 3 26

AI3M S L FM18 254 2 3 249 1436 122 EA6ACC 6580 12 51

K9MMS S L EN51 247 0 3 244 1426 125 K7MI 2945 17 57

K0EJ S L EM66 243 2 0 241 1362 125 FM5BH 3551 18 62

KJ9C S L EM69 262 1 2 259 1358 136 FM5BH 3758 14 60

F8BPN S L JN05 183 0 11 172 1340 106 F5MA 7284 2 22

K9WJU S L EN71 244 0 3 241 1328 128 FM5BH 3784 13 61

K4OGG S L EM73 229 1 2 226 1320 127 W7AWA 3556 9 52

W0HW S L EN35 201 2 5 194 1250 109 K6NDV 2518 11 48

W1TO S L FN32 190 0 1 189 1138 101 S50A 6693 11 44

W5ODD S L EL09 143 0 3 140 1136 99 KH6ND 6034 8 35

N4XD S L FM05 193 4 4 185 1090 104 OQ4UN 6504 15 48

W9WI S L EM66 203 0 2 201 1068 106 W7WA 3189 11 53

N8PR S L EL96 134 2 3 129 1038 83 OQ4UN 7350 4 27

KA0GGI S L EM48 187 1 8 178 1030 104 K7MI 2894 12 43

WW3S S L EN91 213 0 2 211 1022 108 OQ4UN 6184 11 51

WX9U S L EN50 185 0 6 179 1018 107 FM5BH 3961 15 47

KX9DX S L EN50 198 0 13 185 946 116 W7AWA 2820 14 51

N5DO S L DM80 125 0 0 125 946 83 KH6ND 5640 8 27

KK7UV S L DN36 119 0 5 114 858 71 JK1GKG 8434 8 26

AA8UP S L EN90 159 0 1 158 832 94 N6LF 3460 11 44

N0AT S L EN34 145 2 3 140 824 86 N6FF 2492 10 43

K6LL S L DM22 100 0 0 100 808 68 KH6ND 4501 8 19

VE3KP S L FN04 171 1 6 164 798 89 W6BH 3475 8 41

N4DU S L EM71 132 2 2 128 796 84 W7WA 3670 7 36

N7LOX S L CN87 110 0 0 110 788 65 KH6ND 4322 5 19

PA3AAV S L JO22 147 0 7 140 756 91 W8JI 7139 3 23

N8NA S L FM29 155 0 1 154 750 87 N7DD 3315 9 38

NA0N S L EN25 120 0 0 120 724 79 W7AWA 2144 13 35

W9YS S L EN52 131 1 7 123 722 80 FM5BH 4102 9 32

N0AX S L CN87 100 0 6 94 716 55 KH6ND 4322 5 17

G4ERP S L IO81 150 0 22 128 712 88 KB1EAX 5210 2 23

W7DRA S L CN87 110 0 13 97 708 61 KH6ND 4322 3 18

K9CW S L EN50 126 0 0 126 704 82 FM5BH 3961 9 38

N8AA S L EN91 139 0 4 135 702 83 G0IVZ 5712 6 37

LY5W S L KO14 130 1 4 125 690 87 A61AR 4154 3 22

N8SM S L EM13 115 0 2 113 690 81 W7DRA 2677 6 37

KA7T S L DN13 82 0 2 80 660 57 JA2ZJW 8584 6 13

K9OT S L EN42 107 1 4 102 656 79 FM5BH 4229 10 28

W2RFC S L FN13 147 0 2 145 654 82 N6FF 3778 9 38

K8IR S L EN65 121 0 0 121 640 74 K7RAT 2791 4 33

UA2FZ S L KO04 123 1 3 119 626 81 4X3A 2787 2 22

AC0W S L EN33 123 2 7 114 622 74 N6LF 2414 4 32

N7WA S L CN87 93 1 2 90 586 47 KH6ND 4322 5 15

WA8WV S L EM98 134 0 0 134 584 82 ZF2NT 2106 9 38

VK6VZ S L OF75 12 0 1 11 580 11 W8JI 18178 0 1

AD8J S L EN90 130 0 4 126 578 76 FM5BH 3475 6 37

JE1SPY S L PM95 32 0 3 29 554 22 N7DD 9538 0 4

N5UM S L EM13 107 1 2 104 540 71 N6FF 2431 6 27

EU1AZ S L KO33 95 0 2 93 540 70 CT1CJJ 3052 0 15

KA2MGE S L FN02 134 0 4 130 520 77 N6RO 3552 6 30

W5JMW S L DM95 92 0 10 82 516 63 KH7A 5495 5 24

SM5BRG S L JO78 101 0 5 96 512 70 4X3A 3360 1 18

K9IJ S L EN52 112 0 10 102 490 70 N6LF 2756 4 26

SM5G S L JO78 85 0 1 84 468 66 RZ9AYA 2866 1 18

KN4Y S L EM70 100 0 9 91 462 65 N6FF 3591 4 21

W3CP S L FM19 116 0 4 112 460 62 G0IVZ 5579 3 28

K0INT S L DM04 84 0 11 73 454 41 JA2PJC 9028 4 15

DJ3RA S L JO72 105 1 1 103 444 74 RZ9AYA 3038 3 18

WO4O S L EM66 81 0 2 79 440 59 FM5BH 3551 6 24

YU1RA S L KN04 76 0 3 73 402 58 CT1CJJ 2492 1 14

N8BJQ S L EN80 75 0 0 75 402 52 FM5BH 3587 3 26

G3SVL S L JO00 71 1 3 67 400 53 N4AF 6271 1 14

8S0W S L JO99 61 0 3 58 392 48 VK6HD 13673 1 10

AF5Z S L EM10 53 0 3 50 366 46 KH7A 5875 1 10

OM4DN S L JN98 80 0 0 80 358 58 RW4PL 2323 1 13

W8RU S L EN82 70 0 1 69 358 54 K7MI 3391 1 18

W9OL S L EN61 83 0 11 72 350 57 K7RAT 2921 2 17

K8CV S L EN82 80 0 6 74 328 56 N6RO 3225 3 23

WT9U S L EN71 54 0 1 53 320 43 KI7Y 3077 2 19

WG1Z S L FN42 80 0 0 80 314 47 N2WW 2861 1 17

ND9P S L EN34 57 1 2 54 298 38 K7RAT 2355 1 18

N2CG S L FN20 70 0 1 69 294 49 G0IVZ 5376 1 14

OK1FCJ S L JO70 67 0 1 66 292 52 4X3A 2681 3 12

OQ6TJ S L JO20 60 0 1 59 272 45 RA1ACJ 1924 1 14

W7OT S L CN85 42 0 5 37 268 27 KT3Y 3836 1 11

OH4MFA S L KP32 37 0 0 37 266 33 4X3A 3494 1 7

K5KA S L EM26 50 0 2 48 264 38 K7RAT 2543 3 17

M0BIN S L IO91 46 0 0 46 262 37 RZ9AYA 4083 1 10

VE7IN S L CN89 34 0 1 33 256 24 KH6ND 4434 3 5

K0UK S L DM59 44 0 5 39 246 29 K8ND 2216 5 10

JE3UHV S L PM74 20 0 2 18 244 13 K6NR 9322 0 3

K6DGW S L CM98 65 0 7 58 236 32 N5RG 2270 3 8

K4IU S L EM78 57 0 1 56 230 43 N7UA 3220 2 20

W4NTI S L EM73 48 0 0 48 230 38 NA0N 1583 3 15

SM7EH S L JO77 45 0 2 43 230 35 4X3A 3270 1 13

NY4T S L EM65 65 1 7 57 224 42 N2WW 1650 0 15

PA0INA S L JO22 54 0 3 51 222 41 RV1CC 1785 1 14

7S4O S L JP70 40 0 1 39 220 30 RZ9AYA 2839 0 8

N3SD S L EN90 50 0 5 45 192 36 K7RAT 3431 2 14

NC4S S L FM19 51 0 5 46 178 39 N5RG 1958 1 15

SM4ANQ S L JP70 44 0 8 36 176 29 RZ9AYA 2839 1 8

HB9ARF S L JN36 45 0 0 45 174 38 GM3POI 1495 1 9

KB5NJD S L EM12 31 0 0 31 168 26 W2GD 2124 0 7

OK1DOL S L JN69 34 0 0 34 160 30 RZ9AYA 3300 0 9

GW3OIT S L IO72 32 0 1 31 154 28 OH2BO 2028 1 8

W9LYA S L EN62 40 0 2 38 142 33 N2WW 1548 1 9

KI5DR S L EM10 27 0 0 27 134 23 K8ND 1683 2 7

LY2FN S L KO14 34 0 3 31 132 25 RZ9AYA 2465 0 8

G0MTN S L IO92 21 0 0 21 110 20 RA1ACJ 2119 1 7

RW9QA S L MO25 13 0 0 13 102 12 S50A 3630 0 0

SM6IQD S L JO57 24 0 0 24 102 21 IV3PRK 1231 1 6

K6EP S L CM86 22 0 0 22 92 15 N5UL 1886 0 4

K4RFK S L EL96 14 0 1 13 90 12 K6TA 3952 0 3

VA3IX S L EN93 33 0 11 22 84 21 N2WW 2046 0 9

AD3Y S L FM29 22 0 0 22 78 19 N9JF 1375 1 2

K9PG S L EN62 19 0 2 17 72 15 K1ZM 1493 1 5

KA6BIM S L CM97 12 0 2 10 70 7 K8ND 3284 0 2

K4BP S L EM75 10 0 0 10 38 10 K1GU 1438 0 1

WA6BOB S L DM04 5 0 1 4 14 4 N2WW 1362 0 1

KU0KU S L EM28 3 0 0 3 14 3 W8JI 1058 0 0

Single operator - High power

CALL C P GRID RAW DUPE BUST QSO PTS GRD CALL -BEST DX- KM QRP LOW

K4JA S H FM17 397 2 5 390 1857 197 4X3A 9618 23 71

KH6ND S H BL01 168 5 2 161 1806 92 K1ZM 8461 9 21

FM5BH S H FK94 218 0 14 204 1729 116 HA5JI 8088 3 30

N6RO S H CM98 335 4 11 320 1694 159 JA4CUU 8911 16 63

N2WW S H DM79 416 8 8 400 1690 178 JA2ZJW 9639 21 76

KE9I S H EN61 455 0 8 447 1576 192 VK6VZ 17948 23 84

K7RAT S H CN85 281 0 8 273 1408 136 JE3UHV 8196 18 52

OQ4UN S H JO11 327 8 19 300 1401 181 VK6HD 14523 2 36

K4OAQ S H EM97 362 0 2 360 1326 169 KH6ND 7562 22 77

G0IVZ S H IO70 229 6 6 217 1268 145 VK6HD 15075 5 37

N5RG S H EM12 326 8 5 313 1253 153 PY2FUS 8162 21 76

WD5R S H EM45 377 2 10 365 1201 164 G0IVZ 6806 20 76

W3GH S H FN00 377 2 3 372 1196 172 PY2FUS 7822 19 75

NB1B S H FN41 262 0 10 252 1168 148 ZS6UT 12642 15 52

N1EU S H FN32 309 3 12 294 1149 156 PY2FUS 7780 19 66

KC7V S H DM43 232 0 12 220 1144 121 JA6GT 10170 13 42

K9DX S H EN52 324 0 29 295 1120 147 JA1CGM 10001 17 64

K6TA S H CM98 196 0 2 194 1118 110 JA7KYU 9395 12 37

W6EU S H CM99 231 1 2 228 1112 122 JA4DEN 8845 15 39

K2TOP S H FN20 306 2 9 295 1099 146 KH6ND 8001 19 60

KI7Y S H CN85 215 2 1 212 1078 118 JA2ZJW 8064 13 38

W7AWA S H CN88 224 7 12 205 1069 116 ZL3IX 11955 14 47

W8TOP S H EN72 320 0 10 310 1046 157 S59A 7395 18 70

K1KI S H FN32 210 1 1 208 988 127 HA0DU 6960 12 50

4X3A S H KM71 154 5 3 146 983 109 PY2FUS 10636 1 18

N8EA S H EN82 302 5 2 295 975 142 KH6ND 7304 19 66

K3WW S H FN20 312 4 6 302 969 149 S59A 6903 19 60

AE9B S H EM28 318 5 13 300 953 152 FM5BH 4266 19 64

WV7U S H DN70 251 0 5 246 927 131 EA8AK 8019 13 56

EA6ACC S H JM08 151 0 8 143 905 110 W8JI 7480 1 18

K5RX S H EM13 223 0 8 215 891 133 PY2FUS 8238 14 52

N6LF S H CN83 192 0 22 170 878 106 JA2ZJW 8181 10 37

K5MA S H FN41 208 0 1 207 859 121 HA5JI 6777 16 51

N5UL S H DM82 215 2 1 212 857 121 PY2FUS 8590 10 48

NR1DX S H FN42 244 2 10 232 827 124 S59A 6503 16 47

WT9Q S H EN53 275 0 8 267 810 139 OQ4UN 6523 17 64

W0GU S H DN70 198 0 0 198 803 115 FM5BH 5139 15 52

VE3QAA S H FN15 213 0 10 203 793 118 KH7A 7493 14 54

S50U S H JN66 201 0 0 201 791 122 W8JI 7950 4 25

K9AY S H EM83 221 0 6 215 780 130 KH6ND 7469 14 44

UA2FF S H KO04 233 0 6 227 773 144 VK6HD 13411 4 29

S50A S H JN75 237 0 11 226 765 143 FM5BH 7788 3 28

WA0I S H EM47 250 1 13 236 734 125 FM5BH 3907 17 61

HA5JI S H JN97 201 1 1 199 734 131 FM5BH 8088 4 25

RZ9AYA S H MO03 122 0 9 113 712 81 5H3RK 6964 2 15

N4IR S H EM86 303 8 14 281 710 130 W7AWA 3500 15 57

W5WMU S H EM40 211 2 8 201 706 122 FM5BH 3542 12 50

W4AN S H EM74 235 1 3 231 699 126 G0IVZ 6480 17 47

N4AF S H FM15 136 0 3 133 694 97 9A2AJ 7584 7 36

JA2ZJW S H PM84 49 0 4 45 689 28 N7DD 9750 2 7

OK1DX S H JN69 216 0 8 208 685 126 W8JI 7789 4 29

RA1ACJ S H KO59 189 2 12 175 670 113 VK6VZ/6 12921 2 25

7M3HLQ S H PM95 55 0 6 49 646 33 N7DD 9538 1 4

N1RJ S H FN43 146 0 4 142 636 94 ZS6UT 12692 7 33

K3SV S H FN10 157 0 0 157 634 102 KH7A 7568 12 44

RN6BN S H KN95 140 2 4 134 625 92 NB1B 8137 2 19

W1CX S H FN34 188 1 18 169 624 104 ZS6UT 12872 7 46

KR6C S H DM04 159 0 13 146 614 85 JA4DEN 9322 9 22

N6ZZ S H DM73 155 1 5 149 612 97 KH7A 5117 10 36

K5ZD S H FN42 100 0 3 97 611 75 T99T 6947 3 23

K6NR S H DM14 106 0 1 105 602 69 JK6SEW 9822 8 23

VK6HD S H OF85 26 0 3 23 585 22 W8JI 17995 1 2

K2KW S H CM99 168 4 3 161 581 92 JA2ZJW 8564 14 25

W3GN S H FM19 231 0 5 226 576 107 EA4VY 6528 10 52

NV7A S H DM09 132 0 4 128 572 74 JA2ZJW 8705 9 21

K4XU S H CN94 149 1 6 142 549 81 KH6ND 4312 10 25

RW4PL S H LO56 110 1 3 106 549 77 VK6HD 11840 1 20

K4BAI S H EM72 174 0 0 174 544 103 W7AWA 3628 9 45

W2VJN S H CN83 117 1 5 111 534 68 JA4DEN 8451 7 20

N7RT S H DM43 110 0 2 108 521 69 JA6GT 10170 8 18

WA4TT S H EM82 157 0 4 153 507 91 KH7A 7172 8 44

OH2BO S H KP20 128 0 1 127 469 87 VK6HD 13378 3 26

WM4Q S H EM65 177 0 12 165 469 98 KI7Y 3216 10 36

W7EW S H CN84 80 0 0 80 467 64 JA2ZJW 8122 11 24

K2ONP S H FN32 146 0 2 144 457 87 OM5ZW 6774 9 34

N6ZFO S H CM87 121 0 5 116 447 68 JA3YBK 8542 6 19

AA3B S H FN20 170 1 2 167 444 88 OQ4UN 5873 10 41

IV3PRK S H JN66 123 0 8 115 435 85 FM5BH 7633 3 18

RV1CC S H KO59 121 0 1 120 420 88 A92ZE 3977 2 21

XJ1NA S H GN37 66 1 2 63 412 48 K6NDV 5564 4 13

KW4DA S H EM85 152 0 4 148 405 95 N7UA 3549 9 39

K1FK S H FN57 133 0 8 125 405 74 G4VGO 4852 2 28

K7ABC S H DM22 100 0 2 98 402 70 KH6ND 4501 7 15

SM2T S H KP05 101 0 2 99 390 71 4X3A 3899 2 19

KG9N S H EN50 131 0 2 129 377 83 FM5BH 3961 12 33

W4SAA S H EL95 99 1 5 93 374 67 W7AWA 4444 4 18

LY2HN S H KO14 145 1 7 137 366 100 A92ZE 3859 1 21

WQ5L S H EM50 105 0 1 104 352 80 K7MI 3480 6 29

K3MD S H FN10 126 0 4 122 351 80 N6FF 3855 10 30

K1GU S H FN42 144 1 3 140 347 71 N5DO 3137 6 40

N4SL S H CN88 86 0 4 82 346 57 KH6ND 4377 4 17

NI6T S H CM97 85 0 0 85 340 56 JA3YBK 8689 6 19

PY2FUS S H GG66 23 0 4 19 326 19 4X3A 10636 0 2

OH2NN S H KP20 98 0 0 98 311 67 4X3A 3307 2 18

W6ISQ S H CM87 72 2 4 66 299 45 JA2ZJW 8542 3 9

OK1AYY S H JO70 109 0 3 106 288 76 K4JA 7039 3 20

ND5S S H EN72 103 0 1 102 280 73 FM5BH 3863 4 27

W0UY S H EM18 92 0 4 88 278 65 KH6ND 6154 4 29

OK1TP S H JO60 120 0 10 110 260 81 W2GD 6633 1 19

W7LNG S H CN82 84 0 7 77 260 46 KH6ND 4075 4 16

W4EF S H DM04 84 1 2 81 258 52 KH6ND 4159 4 15

JE1TSD S H PM95 23 0 1 22 251 19 N7DD 9538 0 5

N4ZR S H FM19 110 0 1 109 249 71 KI7Y 3788 4 37

W0TY S H EM48 105 2 5 98 233 64 N7UA 2771 4 21

G4DBN S H IO93 36 0 1 35 232 33 W8JI 6722 1 8

N2BJ S H EN61 94 0 4 90 224 62 W7EW 2931 5 27

N5TW S H EM10 58 0 1 57 207 47 W7WA 2914 5 15

W2FCA S H FN22 98 0 2 96 206 59 N7UA 3765 2 22

SM6WQB S H JO68 87 0 7 80 204 55 4X3A 3431 2 20

WO6M S H DM04 81 0 7 74 198 45 N8EA 3238 5 11

N1MD S H FN41 81 0 1 80 188 51 N5RZ 3053 2 17

F5YJ S H JN18 79 0 2 77 186 54 AA1K 6063 1 16

KE6QR S H CM88 63 0 2 61 182 36 KH6ND 3917 4 10

W5GN S H EM12 79 1 13 65 179 48 N6LF 2575 3 16

UA4FER S H LO23 49 0 2 47 178 40 G0IVZ 3380 0 9

K6XC S H CM87 55 0 3 52 173 34 K2AXX 3920 3 8

JA7IC S H QM07 18 0 2 16 167 13 N7DD 9262 0 4

N6CM S H CM97 54 1 5 48 166 29 7M3HLQ 8476 3 7

K6KYJ S H CM99 59 0 3 56 158 36 K4JA 3807 4 10

UA4RC S H LO64 36 0 1 35 144 31 G4VGO 3380 0 4

W7GNP S H DM33 70 2 21 47 141 34 KH6ND 4696 4 10

K6CTA S H CM87 50 0 4 46 115 27 KH6ND 3883 0 8

SM7BHM S H JO76 46 0 4 42 110 33 RZ9AYA 2908 1 8

DK7ZT S H JO40 58 0 2 56 107 44 RN6BN 2291 2 13

W7LR S H DN45 11 0 0 11 107 10 JA2ZJW 8829 2 2

JH6OPP S H PM53 17 0 1 16 104 10 N7DD 10245 0 4

K2AF S H FN20 45 0 5 40 81 31 AE9B 1731 1 5

K1US S H FN43 42 0 2 40 71 28 W8JI 1646 2 7

S56A S H JN76 31 0 1 30 68 26 4X3A 2390 0 6

W4OGG S H EM55 34 0 4 30 62 27 ZF2NT 1939 2 9

KB9CRY S H EN51 29 0 2 27 48 25 K1GU 1493 0 6

DL2AL S H JO51 25 0 10 15 28 15 SM2T 1660 0 4

YC0LOW S H OI33 4 0 1 3 16 3 VK6HD 3266 0 1

As always, I enjoyed the Stew this weekend, operating Multi-Single with long time 160 meter contesting cohort K1LT! The QRP QSO Bonus was a move in the right direction, but only partially resolves the problem of the skew in scoring in favor of the QRP operators. Why, if the QRP station gets 4x multiplier for generating a weak signal, does the receiving station get only a 2x multiplier for being able to do the heavy lifting in the QSO. The Bonus should be 4x for the station *working* a QRP station. Even so, I still maintain that there is no real reason to award a multiplier to a station based on the amount of power used by that station to make QSOs. Allow the numeric scores to accurately reflect the effects of the choice of power used by eliminating the Low and QRP score multipliers, and listing the Divisions (QRP, Low, and High Power) separately as done in 2000, emphasizing that QRP competes only with QRP, Low only with Low, and High only with High. Twelve of the twenty listed plaques are based simply on "High Score", without reference to power. The QRP operator is given an unfair scoring advantage over both High and Low Power entrants in winning a plaque, as they have the 4x score multiplier. Likewise, low-power has an advantage over the High Power entrant with the 2x score multiplier. There is nothing especially noble about making one's signal closer to the noise level. If an extra reward is to be given, give it only to those who *do the work* in making the QSO, and let apples compete with apples. I guess this qualifies as my "pet peeve". - K8ND

Conditions were not so good from here this time around, then the eastern half of the USA seemed to just go to sleep around 10z, even though the band was still open. - KH6ND

Lousy conditions! Not a single JA heard, and only just a couple of Asian stations (just a few UA9's, 4X4, A61, A92). . Best DX: VK6HD, who else! 5H3RK was a nice suprise. He was very strong coming in off the back of one onf my Beverages. To the US: poor, poor, poor. Never heard W8JI so weak! Even Jack, VE1ZZ was weak! Nevertheles I worked about 65 NA stations, the station furthest West was WB9Z. No sunrise peak either, signals slowly sunk in the noise about 20 minutes before sunrise. The Boring radio club certainly organised a boring contest... just 319 QSO's in 14 hours, barely 20 QSO's per hour. I think that as long as we see things happening on 50 MHZ (as it has been happening lately), we should not expect much better than this I think. One consoulation: it must have been poor for everyone. It was my first participation in the Stew Perry contest, and I hope to be able to do it again. VY 73 - John, ON4UN

What a great contest. The format is just right - the timing, the sections and the hours restriction. As a VHF/UHF contester, I think more HF contests should be scored this way. I can't get my head round the concept of spending 48 hours sending 599! This is the only international HF contest that I have entered and I really enjoyed it. Notes: 1) I must remember to look out the fan heater for the overnight session next year! 2) No room for Beverages here, but I did use a loop for receive and it certainly helped combat the local noise level. 3) Keyer threw a wobbly and lost all it's memories. Might have been related to (1) above. 4) Realised I hadn't quite got the timimg right when LY7Z and I were the only signals on the band - and I don't think he was working anyone either! 5) Must try harder next year. Many thanks - Richard G4ERP

Since I'm away at school, I'm no longer allowed to keep a station and antennas up at home. Every contest is a portable effort. Lots of fun, even though I didn't work any DX. I accidentally slept through almost all of the EU sunrise. From the sound of it, it didn't really matter that much, anyway. Does "under-21" include 21? Probably not...gotta draw the line somewhere. Thanks go out to N8ET and N8ICT for providing cores and a variable capacitor to get me on the air. - AA8UP

First of all - congratulations to K4JA for his outstanding signal! Bad conditions here. With good conditions, 14 hours is not long enough for this contest, but now, it is more than enough! All in all, I love this contest - HA5JI

The Sponsor really named the 160 contest-- Boring. Best DX was OQ4UN for 30 points. Who would have believed that 6 meters would have been so hot on Sunday? Best DX on 6 was 38 Points and had 55 QSO's 30+ points on 6 Meters. How do you score the two bands? Hope this will qualify me for the 160 + 6 Meter Plaque. - N8PR

Pleased with what I could work using flea power, VK6HD was a good signal and I fell out the chair when A61AR called me!! Congratulations to the guys that pulled me out the noise, as N2NT said after it took ages to get the grid sq "you must be qrp". I had to wait until the US signals peaked before calling. Best NA signals W2GD, NB1B and N2NT - GM3POI

Conditions have been poor, with very weak signals and spotlight propagation. This year there are even totally lacking JA's and VK6HD or VK6VZ! Best distance QSO's have been FM5BH and K9DX, both 16 points. Interesting spotlight on FM5BH that I could not hear for hours while other europeans were calling on 1.833, and

than came up at once picking 599 for five minutes: I got through at first call! From States side, most consistent and lasting signal by W2GD followed by N2NT. Most southern station was K4JA as I have been unable to get even a whisper from W8JI on 1.843: was Tom QRP? Rig has been always the same, running abt 600 W into a shunt-fed vertical and receiving on a 4 elem. vertical mini-phased array and two beverages (but this year, due to the weak signals, best receive was mainly on the TX antenna). Anyway the Stew Perry is always fun and the best event of the year! - Luis IV3PRK

No condx this year. Longest DX (km) - VK6HD and new one A92ZE - LY7W

Nice contest, but poor condx. I have worked no new country for me (as expected..), but several good friends from 'old era' when I was more active on 160. I still remember my first QSO with W1BB in 1980 and direct QSL card I received several days later. BTW, another TOP band gentleman left us several years ago, Peter DJ8WL. I met him several times, visited his QTH. He was very good operator and technican (mostly homemade RIG), devoted to LF bands, with top Eu score on 160, real HAM. I miss his signal.. - OK1DX

Best ears award from me is to W7GG for answering on the first call and second place is to K6SE, who only needed one fill on my Grid Square. There were several good signals from the west coast (K7RAT, W7WA, N6RO) that just didn't hear me calling. N6RO was consistantly 20 over S9. I thought you guys had an energy crisis out there? I worked 98% of everyone I heard calling east of the Rockies. I don't think going to 100 watts would have helped my score at all. - WS4S

Couldn't hear any NA station during the contest. 73 - YC0LOW.

Conditions could have been better but still enjoyed myself - M0BIN

FIRST TIMER FOR THIS ONE - USED NEW TITANEX AND 100W. WILL ENTER AGAIN NEXT TIME BUT TIME OF YEAR IS FOR FAMILY NOT CONTESTS! - G3SVL

Storm trashed my antennas the day before the contest so I heard a lot I couldn't work. No VK, no PY, and no west coast. Lots of sleep though! - G4DBN

I was not able to make more qso due to transceiver problem...maybe better next year I was using TS-440 (100 Watts) and Long Wire antenna - HB9ARF

This year, the condition between JA-U.S.A. was the best recent few years. My score 1999year 466, 2000year 326, 2001year 660. I could QSO with many U.S.A. west coast stations. I call them (was not called). Their signals were very strong, but they had not answer my CQ. I think this reason was QRMs in U.S.A. frequency. So I called CQ on 1910KHz. But no station answered my CQ too. It was very difficult problem. I would like to hear many opinion of U.S.A. stations about this problem. And it is very difficult to get high score from JAPAN on this contest. Because there is Pacific Ocean on east direction, and the counties of west direction's activity on top band was very poor (BY etc.) - JE1SPY

Friday went snowshoeing with the xyl for her one of her Christmas gifts...Had grand children..Saturday came home late in the day... then went to the gym for more exercise until 1200GMT. Made a few contacts. Thanks to all the great ops on in this contest. - K0UK

First time in SP and it was fun. A lot of people were confused by my California grid, as they were assuming an east coast grid! - K2KW

In all the holiday confusion I forgot the contest was this weekend until I tried 160m at dawn on 12/30 when it was all but over!! - K4RFK

As you will surmise this is an entry for 160M and not 50Mhz as the log shows. Put up the 160M parasitic array this summer and still adjusting it. There were very few that I heard and could not work. IMO if the other station was S9 and did not hear the QRP signal I was using maybe they need a better receiving system. It was fun let's do it again next weekend. – K5IUA

FIRST TIME IN THE SP CHALLENGE ... NEAT CONTEST BUT I THINK I NEED A BETTER ANTENNA. CURRENT ANT IS A SLOPING VEE ABOUT 250' ON A SIDE. SEEMS TO FAVOR THOSE PARTS OF THE WORLD WHERE THERE AREN'T MANY HAMS. – K6DGW

Big sigs from JA near end of contest, too bad not more of them. – KK7UV

Decided to finally try a contest from my home station. The old TS-830 and MLA-2500 amp (at 500W) seemed to work pretty good. The antenna is a 30 foot Shunt Fed Tower (Total height is 40 feet!) I was able to work 159 Q's in 12 hours of operating time (which included food, coffee and fuse replacement) Only DX worked was some KL7's, KH6, VE's, ZF, XE2's, and some JA's. Not many stations operating, but was enjoyable. Tnx for a fun Contest. – KR6C

Spent Saturday afternoon rescuing the coax snake receive antenna with a machete - "What is 160-meters, bwana?" As a result, have sore arms and hands, but a small sacrifice to the radio gods. Then had to deal with a wideband buzzy, growling noise that has cropped up in the last year. It disappeared after 11:30, so it must be a local digital TV leaking weak signals - I'm not sure if

it's worse than touch lamps, or not. Obnoxious, regardless. Oh, conditions? Not so hot - only heard a couple of JA's near the sunrise end of the contest. Activity seemed off, but with everybody working 6m all day, that's to be expected. Best DX was to the East Coast - W2GD and KT3Y - although KH6ND was worked and FM5BH was heard. Nice to know that the antenna is working - putting out the extra ground radials for the contest really helped. Nice to hear the regulars flexing their radio muscles. – N0AX

CONDITIONS WERE NOT AS GOOD AS LAST YEAR. LAST YEAR JUST BEFORE STEW PERRY CONTEST BEGAN, WE HAD 2 FEET OF FRESHLY FALLEN=20

SNOW WHICH I BELIEVE HELPED TOP BAND CONDITIONS. THIS YEAR NO SNOW HAS FALLEN TO DATE AND THERE IS MUCH MORE SOLAR ACTIVITY YIELDING ADVERSE TOP BAND CONDITIONS. – N2CG

Inconsistent propagation and light activity made this contest a real challenge. High point was working two Japanese stations. – N7IR

No VK6's this year but nice to get a few JA's. – N7RT

A vy enjoyable op event; add club participation? building better Beverage switch – N8EA

First time and I will be back next year – NC4S

RENEWED PLEASURE TO PARTICIPATE. JUST FOR THE FUN TO FIND ALL CONTEST FRIENDS. I WORK ONLY THE S&P METHOD. THE STATION HERE IS KENWOOD TS-570D & 80M QUAD LOOP.

MY AGE IS 66 AND I HAVE HEALTH PROBLEMS. I HOPE COME BACK AGAIN IN YEAR 2002! – ON6TJ

It takes the mathematician to make such a standard format! – S56A

NICE TEST THAT I HAD NEVER HEARD OF UNTIL I HEARD A CQ TEST – SM5BRG

An interesting event, I like the use of four digit grid-squares for the exchange, not as trivial as RST and province. If I get the opportunity I may try and run a real effort next year. I had a longer than 3/8 wave random wire between eight and 12 feet off the ground, no radials and I needed to use two tuners in series to get a usable match. – VE3OIL

MY FIRST STEW PERRY CONTEST BUT UNFORTUNATELY IT CONFLICTED WITH THE RAC WINTER CONTEST. HOWEVER WANTED THE GUYS TO GET THE EXTRA QRP POINTS SO HERE'S MY LOG. WILL TRY TO SPEND MORE TIME NEXT YEAR. – VE3WZ

The antenna used was an inverted L and the power was 50 W. The operator's age is 84 years - becoming 85 on 14 Jan. None of the plaque categories seemed like a perfect fit for w3cp, but the Challenge was enjoyed. – W3CP

Headache got the best of me after 4 hours. Decided to pack it in and get a good night's sleep. Felt pretty good the next day. Using 1/4 wave sloping elevated quarter wave vertical wire fed against 8 radials. Had single element beverages for SE, E, NE, NW, and W. Band seemed pretty quiet for a change. Managed to get G0IVZ to hear me, but did not hear any other Europeans. Did hear K4JA calling some, but not a whisper heard here. – W4AN

Couldn't stay as long as I wanted. But had fun with the contest and 100w/Inv L. – W4NTI

A limited effort on my part, but lots of fun. – W8RU

First time to play in this one. Part time fun! – WO4O

Lots of big sigs with no receivers! Lots of CQ, 2-second gap, CQ again. How will they ever work weak DX? RUNNING 100 WATTS (Probably a bit less!) – GW3OIT

1st participation in Stew-Perry with my brother. – JA9SSY

Much more fun from the coast than the blackhole! – K4JA

Poor DX conditions. Glad I had something interesting to read. – K4RO

Limited time to operate and even more limited DX to work. – K5RX

I got bored with the slow rate, so decided to work 100 QSO's using the K6LL callsign on low power, then 100 QSO's on high power, using my wife's K7ABC callsign. – K6LL

I have always been too busy with family things to do much in the Stew Perry, but this year I found more time to dabble (5 hours). The participation seemed to be very good this year, and, WoW, the JA's were as strong as the locals on Sunday morning. I had a blast. I used my remote station near Victorville Ca - a Kachina 505DSP and a SGC 500 watt solid state amplifier. Always exciting to have the modem drop temporarily during a QSO! Calling CQ is quite a mouse-intensive activity, moving between the radio control window, the CW send window, and the Writelog QSO entry window. S&P was easier. Antenna is a 40' top loaded 80m vertical with a trap and a 160m "L" wire, fed over 66 66' radials. Seemed to work well enough. Once again, a great contest. – K6NR

Operated from our dry salt lake bed QTH (which was wet) in southern California, grid DM15. The antenna was a full-size quarter-wave vertical supported by a helium-filled balloon. This worked so well in the ARRL 160 contest that we decided to take advantage of the x2 multiplier and run in the low power category with the FT-1000MP barefoot. The first QSO of the contest was QRP station NO9Z for 24 (6x2x2) points. Was thrilled to work 9V1PC for our farthest QSO, a distance of 14036.832 km. Peter e-mailed us after the contest that we were his only USA QSO in the contest, reaffirming the quietness of our QTH. We did not hear a trace of VK6VZ/6 or VK6HD, however. Was surprised when co-operator KH6DX stepped outside to "stretch his legs" and he called us from his mobile station just outside the operating trailer. He was the strongest station heard, even though he called me with no antenna connected. We worked everyone we heard except PY2FUS. I guess our low power wasn't cutting through his QRN. We heard a huge pile calling a station giving out grid IL28, but couldn't get his callsign due to the heavy QRM and the QSB. We thoroughly enjoyed the contest and hope to be back again for it next year. – K6SE

Not exactly a big effort... but fun. – K6XX

Did not start until 10pm local time, so missed the first most active six hours. – K9DX

cool contest! if I had only remembered to register my logging program before the contest, I wouldn’t have to cut and past my data now.. bummer.. – KB5NJD

Operated at W7RM again this year. Band not as good as past years. – KI7Y

Relatively quiet here in SW Indy for once. Too quiet. Not much activity heard. Finding water in the beverage switching box may have had something to do with that. Or a broken ewe to the west. But not hearing any KH6 for the first time was a shocker. Did manage a few far west coast QSOs for 7 points and ZF, but not much else. Got a few years before the sunspot null to fix the receive antennas, but need them more now. – KJ9C

NOT MANY SIGNALS. MOSTLY QRP. FIRST SHOT AT QRP FOR ME. – N0FP

A part-time effort on my part and a marginal improvement over last year's score. Activity seemed light. Propagation path into europe was tough going. I suspect a lot of localized openings - I could hear stations 100 miles east of me hearing & working stuff that didn't make it to Albany NY. The northeast direction sounded somewhat noisy and european signals generally were not only weak, but had a "grundgey" quality that made copy quite difficult. Signals from the west coast were not that strong, but luckily free from the noise/grundge effect. About 30 west coast stations were logged. Thanks to everyone who gave me a call and apologies to all the many stations I couldn't pull out. Copy was really tough at times. – N1EU

73 & Best wishes for 2002 - Barry N1EU

Great time! – N1MD

Condx decent enuff to pick up some Eu. – N4AF

Just giving out points. – N5TW

Surprised anyone heard me at all with my 102' G5RV at 40ft. 73 from the "TX Top Band Whisper" – N5UM

Condx not so hot here. Had much better antennas this year, and fewer contacts. Didn't seem as many stations on this year, maybe due to propagation. Worked almost all I could hear. Only DX was KH6, KL7 and XE. Heard one JA faintly. Had fun anyway and ready to go again. – N6WG

Less activity than last year. Not a peep from JA and NA.FB surprises A92ZE, VK6HD and VK6VZ/6. – OH2BO

I looked for the Stew Perry contest for long time. I worked last time in 1998. Then I cought nasty flu just after Christmas and I was not in good condition for the contest. Only one hour of operating, and that was already very hard. It was nice to hear many stations on the Topband, and I would like to spend much more time, but... Anyway it was fun and hopefully see You all next time. Good luck and lots of DX on the Topband in year 2002! - 73 de Jukka, OH4MFA

condx not too good...was fun anyway. – PA3AAV

Conditions on TopBand were not good during the contest, although I could hear the two US beacons (W2GD and W8JI) the whole night. FM5BH was also strong, peaking s9+ here, but could not hear me. The good surprise was working 4X3A and some US West Coast stations, including N6FF, W6BH and N7DD. The only station from EU heard was OQ4UN (not a conditions reference, too...). I apologize for those I could not copy, as sometimes I knew people were calling me, but the noise level did not allow me to complete the QSO - keep in mind is summer time here, and sometimes the QRN is S9+. The good news is I rebuild my US beverage and it now seems to be much better. See you all again next year! - Ron PY2FUS

Funny as always in SPTBC (with fighting snow here too), no extremely long DX's this time, CUL SP 2002 – S50U

My first Stew Perry, I like it. – SM2T

Did multi/single with son, VE3SMA this year for a change. We found conditions generally poor. QSB was deep and prevalent. Absorption seemed high and signals were weak. Few Europeans were heard and only G0IVZ was worked. On the other hand, we worked quite a lot of west coast stations. Thanks to the organizers for another enjoyable contest. – VE3OSZ

POOR DX CONDX BUT WEST COAST CAME THRU OK MISSED FIRST 1.5 HOURS AFTER SUNSET DUE TO TECHNICAL PROBLEMS. – VE3QAA

Operated from the Cape Leeuwin lighthouse at most extreme south-western point of Western Australia. Conditions were terrible, but the inverted vee up 132' over seawater helped. Only 12 QSOs using LP (60 - 80W), but lots of fun getting them. CU NXT YR! - VK6VZ

100w and antenna was a very twisty inverted L which could fit in the 46' box cube (not counting the radials). – W0QE

I enjoyed the contest. Best ever for me. The West coast seemed to not hear as well as we were hearing them. – W1TO

Operated from new home QTH this year using a low 40 ft apex inv vee and a receive loop. Started out LP but cud not get many answers, so switched on Centurion amp whiched helped some. Did not hear any EU and only a few west coast stations. May go back to the Keys again next year. Guess condx were not as good as last year. It was still great fun. – W4SAA

fun,condx cud hve been better,hope to next year – W5JMW

I THINK MY SCORE IS 2X FOR LOW POWER, OR 798, NOT 399 AS ABOVE I HAVE SPENT MORE TIME DOING THE .CBR FILE THAN OPERATING THE ARC5 AND 211S GLOWED NICELY AT 100W OUTPUT THIS IS THE LAST TIME I WILL COMPLAIN ABOUT COMPUTER LOGGING SUPRISING HOW THE 6AC7 CONVERTER AND BC453 COULD HEAR EVERYTHING – W7DRA

WHERE WERE THE EARLY RISERS? GOT LESS THAN 40 QSO'S IN THE LAST 7 HOURS OF OPERATION. NOISE WAS OK BUT PROPAGATION WAS AWFUL. BARELY WORKED KH6ND, AND ZERO DX HEARD. – WA9IRV

My first Stew Perry Contest. I was using a Marconi special prefix and a Canadian Marconi BH30 amp. The temperature in the shack went up by 5 deg C with the amp running. Also participated in the RAC and MCC contests which were running at the same time. Nice to see all these familiar callsigns in the log. The never-ending patience of the Cabrillo Robot in assisting me getting my log in the correct format is gratefully acknowledged. – XJ1NA

Topband operation is always FUN! – JE1TSD

Lots of fun, but I need a better antenna! – AD3Y

Conditions just so-so. Ran out of stations to work so I went to bed. – NB1B

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