Make a note already now in your calendar for two nice weekends with lot of Scandinavian stations on the shortwave bands. While planning, take a tour the web-site and look for your past results in the results database. We are looking forward to see you again in the Polar Battle 2013.

Select the Results page in the menue above and take a look.
In order to see and download your PDF-award, click the rank number on the left.

73
Ingo SM5AJV
SAC CC Teamleader

This years SSB contest will go to the history and tales of bad propagation and I think everyone suffered a lot. But lot of people hang in and made the contest a good one to remember.

Kudos to Finland! The Finish ‘sisu‘ showed the other Scandinavian countries, that you have to have stamina and lot’s of good antennas to withstand bad propagation. The Scandinavian Cup was won by Finland with a big margin, leaving Sweden on second place and Norway on the third.

Even abroad the Finns made fantastic scores. Kim OH6KZP traveled to the LX7I station and made a new European record in the SINGLE-OP-ASSISTED category, while Ville OH2MM went to Brasil and PY2ZEA with a new South American Record in the SINGLE-OP class.

In the SINGLE-OPERATOR LOW POWER Category RV9CBW at RF9C broke the new Asian record.
DF3FS was at CR3L and was the first one to get a record in the SINGLE-OPERATOR-ASSISTED category for Africa.
The MULTI-ONE team of LZ5R with operators LZ1UK, LZ3RR and LZ4UU broke the new record for Europe.

Go to the Results menu (see above) and check your result. All UBN logs are public, click on a call to view a specific UBN.

73 and see you in 2013 again!
Ingo SM5AJV
SAC CC Teamleader

We are happy to see that the interest for SAC CW is still going strong with more than 1200 submitted logs. The Polar Battle victory found its way to Finland again, leaving Sweden on the second place, followed by Norway and Denmark.

In an effort to increase transparency, the checked logs of all SAC participants are open to the public. They are just a click away. Click on your call in the listings to see the UBN-file. Please send questions, information on any problems to support@sactest.net. Downloadable PDF Awards will be available after the SSB result is ready.

This year we enforced the rule that forbids operation below 3510 kHz and each QSO found in that region has been given zero points and no multiplier credit, but no further penalty.

Currently we are working with SSB logs and hope to publish them in a couple of weeks.

While waiting for the final result, we suggest that you take some minutes to fill in our Feedback Survey for SAC 2012. It only takes a short while and your opinions are valuable in order to develop SAC further.

Go to the feedback form!

CHECK YOUR CATEGORY
Before you submit your log, take extra care and check that you have entered the correct category according to the rules. Note that there are different sets of categories within or outside Scandinavia. If you are outside Scandinavia you may use the DX-cluster, but if you do, you must enter the Assisted category as a Single Operator.

USE THE ROBOT
Please submit your log, using our log-robot at http://sactest.net/robot
If you encounter any problems, you may submit your log again. If problems persists, contact us by email support@sactest.net.

DEADLINE
Log deadline is the 28:th of October 23:59 UTC.

GIVE US FEEDBACK
In hopes of continually developing the event, the contest committee is looking for your feedback.
Please go to Feedback SAC 2012 and tell us about your opinions before November 18, 2012.

• SSB 13 – 14 October 1200 – 1200 UTC

Things To Do:

• Read the rules Pay special attention to you choice of Category.
• Look for a record to break
• Announce your activity
• Check the propagation forecasts
• Put on the radio and have fun with the Scandinavians!

A reminder from the rules:
The 3.5 – 7 – 14 – 21 – 28 MHz frequency bands may be used according to the IARU HF Band Plan.
On 3.5 MHz, Region 1 stations must not transmit below 3510 kHz on CW or above 3790 kHz on SSB.

The log-robot stood up well with its first pile-up and we saw about 250 logs received the first hour after the contest. If you get trouble with the robot, please check your Cabrillo log. If you logged on paper there are several possibilities to make a Cabrillo log. You may use the PC-program SACMan or you can try WA7BNM’s SAC CW web form for entering your QSO’s.

If your are confused about the different classes in SAC, please take a look at the rules. Note, there are different classes for non-Scandinavians and Scandinavians.

The deadline for SAC CW logs is on Sunday September 30 23:59:59 2012 UTC

Next round…

… in the SAC Polar Battle is the SAC SSB contest 13 – 14 October 1200 -1200 UTC

See the teams and follow the live scoreboard (and audio/video for some) here:
http://sactest.net/blog/ntc-cw-teams/
http://cqcontest.ru/teamscore.jsp