{"id":2536,"date":"2019-10-07T21:07:32","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T19:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sactest.net\/blog\/?p=2536"},"modified":"2019-10-07T21:09:22","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T19:09:22","slug":"its-soon-time-for-sac-ssb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sactest.net\/blog\/its-soon-time-for-sac-ssb\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s soon time for SAC SSB"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>There are only a few days left until it&#8217;s time to grab the microphone and turn on your radio for SAC SSB October 12-13. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The CW part was a great success with more than 1700 participants.  Almost 1300 logs with a total of 300.000 log lines was uploaded to the SAC Log Robot! A new record! Thanks to all participants!<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">60 years and still going strong<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our beloved SAC is 60 years old, and for this anniversary we offer special diplomas:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Bronze&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013 to those whose first SAC was 1980-1989<\/li><li><strong>Silver&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013 to those whose first SAC was 1970-1979<\/li><li><strong>Gold&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013 to those whose first SAC was 1960-1969<\/li><li><strong>Platina&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013&nbsp; to those who were in the first SAC 1959<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To get this you only need to report <strong>your first SAC-year<\/strong> when&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sactest.net\/robot\/\">uploading your log<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Rules<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please read the rules carefully&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sactest.net\/blog\/rules\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.sactest.net\/blog\/rules\/<\/a>&nbsp;.<br><br>F<strong>requency limits:<\/strong><br>\u200bSSB: 3600-3650, 3700-3800, 7060-7100, 7130-7200, 14125-14300, 21151-21450, 28320-29000 kHz. <br>Remember, QSO\u2019s outside the frequency limits will be scored zero points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The \u201czero rule\u201d:<\/strong><br>If the station worked does not send a serial number, log the contact with number 0<strong>.<\/strong>&nbsp;QSO\u2019s with zero in the received serial number field will not give QSO points nor multiplier points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Sponsored plaques<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks to a multitude of generous sponsors we have a large&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sactest.net\/blog\/rules\/sac-sponsored-plaque-program\/\">program&nbsp;<\/a>with sponsored plaques. Go and take a look and start planning!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Learn about propagation to Scandinavia<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Propagation to and from Scandinavia can sometimes be challenging. Do your own planning by visiting&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sactest.net\/blog\/propagation\/\">our propagation page<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Announce your activity!<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fill in the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sactest.net\/blog\/announce_form\/\">&nbsp;announcement form<\/a>&nbsp;and your plans will be on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sactest.net\/blog\/announcements.php?mode=SSB\">Announced Operations in SAC SSB<\/a>&nbsp;page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please be kind to forward this info to mailing lists or other internet media of your contest club, national league or other contest-oriented group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">73 &amp; CU!<br>SM5AJV, OH6EI, OZ1BII, LB8DC<br>SAC Contest Committee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are only a few days left until it&#8217;s time to grab the microphone and turn on your radio for SAC SSB October 12-13. The CW part was a great success with more than 1700 participants. Almost 1300 logs with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sactest.net\/blog\/its-soon-time-for-sac-ssb\/\">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":[10,14,15,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-logs","category-plaques","category-propagation","category-rules"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sactest.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536","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=2536"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sactest.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2540,"href":"https:\/\/www.sactest.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536\/revisions\/2540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sactest.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sactest.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sactest.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}