{"id":2755,"date":"2020-09-18T09:04:25","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T07:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sactest.net\/blog\/?p=2755"},"modified":"2020-09-18T09:05:33","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T07:05:33","slug":"sac-cw-is-this-weekend-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sactest.net\/blog\/sac-cw-is-this-weekend-2\/","title":{"rendered":"SAC CW is this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The Scandinavian Activity Contest on CW is this weekend 19-20 September 12-12 UTC. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Each part of this &#8220;Polar Battle&#8221; gathers 1000+ contesters from all around the world. As the Nordic hams enter their radio huts en masse, SAC offers non-Scandinavians a unique opportunity to work the propagationally challenged Arctic nations and practice your skills.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Things to check out<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget to read the <strong>rules <\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sactest.net\/blog\/rules\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.sactest.net\/blog\/rules\/<\/a>. Changes compared to 2019 are marked in red.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have a tradition of making <strong>Results booklets<\/strong> from each SAC. Go to<br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sactest.net\/blog\/sac-booklets\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.sactest.net\/blog\/sac-booklets\/<\/a> and read what happened the last years with lot of nice stories and pictures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please take a look on our <strong>Sponsored plaques program<\/strong> (geographical, special skills, etc.) <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sactest.net\/blog\/rules\/sac-sponsored-plaque-program\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.sactest.net\/blog\/rules\/sac-sponsored-plaque-program\/<\/a> Maybe you will earn one this year!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ham radio and contesting is very much about <strong>propagation<\/strong>. Learn about propagation to Scandinavia: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sactest.net\/blog\/propagation\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.sactest.net\/blog\/propagation\/<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Announce your activity<\/strong> and challenge your friends at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sactest.net\/blog\/announce_form\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.sactest.net\/blog\/announce_form\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>73 &amp; CU!<\/strong><br>SM5AJV, OH6EI, OZ2I, LB8DC<br>SAC Contest Committee<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Scandinavian Activity Contest on CW is this weekend 19-20 September 12-12 UTC. Each part of this &#8220;Polar Battle&#8221; gathers 1000+ contesters from all around the world. As the Nordic hams enter their radio huts en masse, SAC offers non-Scandinavians &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sactest.net\/blog\/sac-cw-is-this-weekend-2\/\">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":[4,15,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","category-propagation","category-rules"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sactest.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755","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=2755"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.sactest.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2761,"href":"https:\/\/www.sactest.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755\/revisions\/2761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sactest.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sactest.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sactest.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}