{"id":4137,"date":"2026-08-20T15:42:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T13:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sactest.net\/blog\/?p=4137"},"modified":"2026-08-20T15:42:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T13:42:22","slug":"sac-2026-hitting-the-ionosphere-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sactest.net\/blog\/sac-2026-hitting-the-ionosphere-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"SAC 2026 Hitting The Ionosphere Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sactest.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/sac-2026-invitation.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"118\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sactest.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/sac-2026-invitation-300x118.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4140\" style=\"aspect-ratio:2.3741807839742797;width:461px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sactest.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/sac-2026-invitation-300x118.png 300w, https:\/\/www.sactest.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/sac-2026-invitation-766x301.png 766w, https:\/\/www.sactest.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/sac-2026-invitation-1024x402.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.sactest.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/sac-2026-invitation-1536x603.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.sactest.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/sac-2026-invitation-500x196.png 500w, https:\/\/www.sactest.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/sac-2026-invitation.png 2001w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>It\u2019s time to plan your SAC adventures. The Polar Battle will once again hit the ionosphere with Scandinavian signals all over the bands. Are you prepared?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>SAC CW:<\/strong> 19-20 September 2026<br><strong>SAC SSB:<\/strong> 10-11 October 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This year we have updated the Plaques section of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sactest.net\/blog\/scandinavian-activity-contest-2026-rules\/\">rules<\/a>. Check out how you can be the proud winner of one of our standard or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sactest.net\/blog\/sac-sponsored-plaque-program-2026\/\">sponsored plaques<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Don\u2019t forget to announce your plans in our activity pages: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sactest.net\/blog\/announcements.php?mode=CW\">CW<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sactest.net\/blog\/announcements.php?mode=SSB\">SSB<\/a> <br>Use the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sactest.net\/blog\/announce_form\/\">web-form<\/a> to make your announcements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Looking forward to hear you on the bands!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">73,<br>SAC Contest Committee<br>SM5AJV, OH1SIC, LA6VQ, LA0FA, OZ1AA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s time to plan your SAC adventures. The Polar Battle will once again hit the ionosphere with Scandinavian signals all over the bands. Are you prepared? SAC CW: 19-20 September 2026SAC SSB: 10-11 October 2026 This year we have updated &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sactest.net\/blog\/sac-2026-hitting-the-ionosphere-soon\/\">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":[27,14,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-plaques","category-rules"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sactest.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4137","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=4137"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sactest.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4143,"href":"https:\/\/www.sactest.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4137\/revisions\/4143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sactest.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sactest.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sactest.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}