{"id":2151,"date":"2018-08-23T20:12:41","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T18:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sactest.net\/blog\/?p=2151"},"modified":"2018-09-11T12:14:19","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T10:14:19","slug":"rules-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sactest.net\/blog\/rules-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Rules 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>The rules for SAC has been updated for 2018 and w<\/strong>e have only made two minor changes in the rules this year.<\/h1>\n<p><strong>The first<\/strong>\u00a0change, is in the MULTI OPERATOR SINGLE TX category.\u00a0 We have now removed the 10-minute rule for the Multiplier Station. The RUN-station still have to remain at least 10 minutes on the band after a change of frequency band. It&#8217;s also important to indicate RUN and MULT station in the log. We hope this change will make Multi-Single category more attractive, allowing for serious multiplier hunting.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The second<\/strong> change, is how to deal with stations that don&#8217;t give out a serial number. We want you to put 000 into the log, not 001, 073 or some other random number.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Clarification (added 2018-09-11):<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Use zero (000) as received serial number if you work and log a station that doesn\u2019t send a serial number.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Do not enter a \u201cfake\u201d number if you log a station that doesn\u2019t send a serial number.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">QSO\u2019s with zero in the received serial number field will not give QSO points nor multiplier points.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">QSO\u2019s that we find with \u201cfake\u201d numbers will be lost, and may also lead to further penalties.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Frequencies to be used<br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">We would also like to remind everyone of last years rule change regarding allowed frequencies. In 2017 a couple of participants missed the rule and lost all QSO&#8217;s that was made outside the allowed frequencies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">\u200b<\/span><strong>CW<\/strong>\u00a0: 3510-3560, 7000-7040, 14000-14060, 21000-21070, 28000-28070 kHz<br \/>\n<strong>SSB<\/strong>: 3600-3650, 3700-3800, 7060-7100, 7130-7200, 14125-14300, 21151-21450, 28320-29000 kHz.<\/p>\n<p>As always,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sactest.net\/blog\/rules\/\">read the rules<\/a>\u00a0<strong><em>before<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>the contest!<br \/>\nThe changes in the rules are marked with <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">red<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>SAC CC<br \/>\nSM5AJV, OZ1BII, OH6EI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rules for SAC has been updated for 2018 and we have only made two minor changes in the rules this year. The first\u00a0change, is in the MULTI OPERATOR SINGLE TX category.\u00a0 We have now removed the 10-minute rule for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sactest.net\/blog\/rules-2018\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rules"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sactest.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sactest.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sactest.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sactest.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sactest.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2151"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.sactest.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2186,"href":"https:\/\/www.sactest.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151\/revisions\/2186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sactest.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sactest.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sactest.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}