Thanks to all who entered the ionospheric waves and participated in another SAC “Polar Battle”. Propagation was challenging on higher bands, but many could squeeze in a handful QSO’s on both 15 and 10 meters. Well done!
Please remember that the log deadline is now on Friday 23.59 UTC.
Submit your log to the Robot: https://www.sactest.net/robot/
If any problems please email us: support@sactest.net
SAC SSB is 9-10 October! We are looking forward to hear your voices!
The CW part of Scandinavian Activity Contest will take place
18. September 12 UTC – 19. September 12 UTC
Each part of this “Polar Battle” gathers 1000+ contesters from all around the world. SAC offers non-Scandinavians a unique opportunity to work the propagationally challenged Arctic nations and practice your skills.
Things to check out
Take a look on our Sponsored plaques program HERE – geographical, special skills, etc. – You may earn one this year!
We have a tradition of making Results booklets from each SAC telling what happened the last years with lot of nice stories and pictures. Take a look HERE
Ham radio and contesting is very much about Propagation. Learn about propagation to Scandinavia HERE
Announce your activity and challenge your friends HERE
Don’t forget to read the rules HERE
Best 73 from
SM5AJV, OH2BH, OZ2I, LB8DC
the SAC Contest Committee
As you may have noticed, Tomi OH6EI had left the Contest Committee earlier this year and the Finnish CC-member place have been vacant. However, Tomi has not completely left the work with SAC as he, this year again will organize the work with sponsored plaques.
We have just received the uplifting news that a new Finnish member has arrived and we are pleased to welcome Martti OH2BH to the working group. Martti are well known within the contest community and it looks to be an exciting spring 2022 when we again have to work further with new upgraded rules.
Welcome Martti from the rest of the SAC CC Team
LB8DC Morten + SM5AJV Ingemar + OZ2I Henning
As a result of the technical developments as well as the more and more advanced operator skills, SAC CC wants to introduce innovations in the rules. There is also a reason for changes due to the many contests that are taking place and to retain a reasonably number of participants in SAC.
Therefore, we want to involve as many of our participants as possible in the process of drawing up new rules. We start by asking you about the overall lines to hear what the mood is around these changes. We look forward to receiving a lot of responses and also comments with your proposals.
When filling in the form, please take an individual position on each question. In that way we get the best overview of your wishes. Please use the note field if you have some ideas for improvement of SAC.
Later, there may be further questions and proposals about new rules that work towards the wishes that are submitted here.
Now we will analyze all the answers from you and come up with new proposal.
We will let you know!
73 SAC Contest Committee
LB8DC SM5AJV OZ2I
The SAC Booklet for 2020 is here, full with results and contest stories.
Our hard working editor Henning OZ2I has made it again. Thank you Henning!
Read it here on-line or download the booklet for later reading! All previous booklets can be found on the SAC Booklet page!
The final results are now ready and we congratulate all winners.
In total we received 2485 logs when we sum CW (1431) and SSB (1054) – A new record!
You will find scores listings in the Result menu above. If you want to download your award, simply click on the rank number left to your call in the result listing. To view the UBN-file, click on the callsign.
SAC Contest Committee
Ingo SM5AJV, Tomi OH6EI, Henning OZ2I, Morten LB8DC
SINGLE-OP HIGH ALL – OH0T (op. OH2GEK)
SINGLE-OP LOW ALL – LA2AB (op. LA7MFA)
SINGLE-OP QRP ALL – OH0V (op. OH6LI)
SINGLE-OP HIGH ALL TB-WIRES – OH3RB (op. OH3RB)
SINGLE-OP LOW ALL ROOKIE – LA6M (op. LA6GX)
SINGLE-OP LOW ALL WIRE-ONLY – SF5O (op. SM0EOS) New Record
MULTI-ONE HIGH ALL – OH0Z (op. OH2N OH2XX OH6DD OH6EI)
MULTI-MULTI HIGH ALL – OH1F (op. OH1HS OH1NOA OH1RX OH1TM)
SINGLE-OP HIGH ALL – OH2BH (op. ES2RR)
SINGLE-OP LOW ALL WIRE-ONLY – SE4E (op. SM4DQE)
SINGLE-OP QRP ALL TB-WIRES – 8S3DX (op. OH6ZR)
SINGLE-OP HIGH ALL TB-WIRES – OH6DX (op. OH6DX) New Record
SINGLE-OP HIGH ALL ROOKIE – LB5GI (op. LB5GI) New Record
SINGLE-OP HIGH ALL WIRE-ONLY – OV7X (op. DL2JRM)
MULTI-ONE HIGH ALL – OH2BAH (op. OH2BAH OH2PQ OH2BMN)
MULTI-MULTI HIGH ALL – OH5Z (op. OH3BKL OH5CZ OH5LF OH5TS OH6XX)
SINGLE-OP HIGH ALL – EA8/OH0XX (op. OH0XX) New Record
SINGLE-OP HIGH ALL – EA8/OH0XX (op. EA8/OH0XX) New Record
SINGLE-OP HIGH ALL – P3X (op. 5B4AMM)
SINGLE-OP HIGH LOW-BAND – JA5NSR (op. JA5NSR)
MULTI-ONE HIGH ALL – UA9BA (op. R8AA UA9BA)
SINGLE-OP HIGH ALL – R8WF (op. R8WF)
SINGLE-OP HIGH LOW-BAND – R9AB (op. R9AB)
MULTI-ONE HIGH ALL – UA9BA (op. UA9BA R8AA)
SINGLE-OP HIGH ALL – I2WIJ (op. I2WIJ)
SINGLE-OP HIGH LOW-BAND – LY2A (op. LY2KA)
MULTI-ONE HIGH ALL – SP8R (op. SP8GQU SP8BRQ)
SINGLE-OP HIGH ALL – IK2YCW (op. IK2YCW)
SINGLE-OP HIGH LOW-BAND – LY8A (op. LY8A)
MULTI-ONE HIGH ALL – IT9YVO (op. IT9SSI IT9YVO)
SINGLE-OP HIGH ALL – AA2A (op. N2KW)
SINGLE-OP HIGH LOW-BAND – W3AKD (op. W3AKD)
MULTI-ONE HIGH ALL – WB9Z (op. WB9Z NV9L)
SINGLE-OP HIGH ALL – K3ZO (op. K3ZO)
SINGLE-OP HIGH LOW-BAND – AA2A (op. N2KW)
MULTI-ONE HIGH ALL – NV9L (op. NV9L)
SINGLE-OP LOW ALL – YB4HQ (op. YB4HQ)
SINGLE-OP HIGH LOW-BAND – ZL2AGY (op. ZL2AGY)
SINGLE-OP HIGH ALL – YB3DY (op. YB3DY)
SINGLE-OP HIGH LOW-BAND – YC5ACD (op. YC5ACD)
MULTI-ONE HIGH ALL – 7E3E (op. YF3CYT YF3CYU YF3CYS)
SINGLE-OP HIGH ALL – PY2ZEA (op. OH2MM)
SINGLE-OP HIGH ALL – PY5EG (op. PY5EG)
MULTI-ONE HIGH ALL – CE2LS (op. CE2LS)
For non-Scandinavian single operators (CW + SSB combined, unless otherwise mentioned)
Worked most LA (Sponsor: Morten Kvernmoen, LB8DC) I2WIJ
Worked most OH (Sponsor: Jukka Kulha OH2MA) I2WIJ
Worked most OZ (Sponsor: Thomas Andersen, OZ1AA) I2WIJ
Worked most SM (Sponsor: Kurt Brännäs, SE2T) I2WIJ
Worked most TF (Sponsor: Thorvaldur Stefansson, TF4M) I2WIJ
Best combined score (Sponsor Jari Perkiömäki OH6BG) EA8/OH0XX
Best YL/XYL (Sponsor: Veijo Kontas, OH6KN) LY5XX
Best NA (Sponsor: Hans Johansson, SM0IMJ) K3ZO
Best Baltic (Sponsor: Jyrki Nieminen, OH6CS) LY3BB
Best Germany + Poland (Sonsor: Uwe Dowidat DL8UD) DL1NKS
Best Italy (Sponsor: Helga Ferrante Picelli IN3FHE) I2WIJ
Best European Russia (Sponsor: Anton Teterin) UA5C
Most multipliers (Sponsor: Arto Liimatta OH2KW) I2WIJ
CW: Best Ukraine + Romania (Sponsor: Zaba Hubach, OH1ZAA) YO4NF
CW: Best BY (Sponsor: Mats Ericson, SM4EPR) BG7SSK
CW: Best Lithuania LP (Sponsor Timo Klimoff, OH1NOA/ES1NOA) LY5W
CW: Best JA (Sponsor: Jari Perkiömäki, OH6BG) JA6GCE
CW: Best accuracy (at least 200 QSOs) (Sponsor: Henning Andresen, OZ2I) SP2R
CW: First over 1000 QSOs (Sponsor: Jörg Pamp, DF6JC) No effort
CW: Best HS/E2 (Sponsor: Champ C. Muangamphun, E21EIC/KY1A) E21EIC
CW: Best Sunday score, 00-12 UTC (Sponsor: Peter Sundberg, SM2CEW) EU8U
CW: Best low band score (80+40) (Sponsor: Tommy Clemmensen OZ1THC) LY2KA @ LY2A
SSB: Best BY (Sponsor: Ville Lintervo OH1JD) BD7BM
SSB: Best JA (Sponsor: Kari Viitamäki, OH6FSG) JH1OGC
SSB: First over 1000 QSOs (Sponsor: Jörg Pamp, DF6JC) No effort
SSB: Best HS/E2 (Sponsor: Markku Korhonen OH8UV) E25KAE
CW + SSB: Best SOAB HP NON-assisted Scandinavia (Sponsor: Ville Lintervo OH1JD) OH2GEK @ OH0T
CW + SSB: Best YL/XYL (Sponsor: Ulf Melin, SB3W) DL3KWR @ OZ6SYL
CW + SSB: Best OX/OY/OZ (Sponsor: David Siddall K3ZJ) OZ1LO
CW + SSB: Best SOAB HP Unassisted Sweden (Sponsor: Tord Julander SM3EVR) SM0MLZ @ SG0X
CW + SSB: Best SOAB LP Unassisted Sweden (Sponsor: Tord Julander SM3EVR) SM5IMO
CW: Best SOAB HP Assisted Scandinavia (Sponsor: Tomi Ylinen OH6EI) SM2LIY @ SJ2W
CW + SSB: Most multipliers (Sponsor: Kenneth Hemstedt OZ1IKY) OH2GEK @ OH0T
CW: Best young operator (under 25) (Sponsor: Mika Liimatainen, OH6NVC) SA7GGO @ SK7AX
CW: Best accuracy (at least 300 QSOs) (Sponsor: Henning Andresen, OZ2I) OH2MGA
CW: Best SOAB HP Sweden (Sponsor: Mikael Larsmark, SJ2W) SM2LIY @ SJ2W
CW: Best Low Power Single Wire (Sponsor: Kenneth Lykke Poulsen, OZ1BIZ) SM5EOS @ SF5O
CW: Best Sunday score, 00-12 UTC (Sponsor: Peter Sundberg, SM2CEW) OH2GEK @ OH0T
SSB: Best SOAB HP Sweden (Sponsor: Mikael Larsmark, SJ2W) SM0MLZ @ SG0X
CW: Highest scoring Remote station (Sponsor: Thorvaldur Stefansson, TF4M) OH0Z
Thank you everybody for your participation in the 2020 SAC’s and also for your logs that now have been checked and very soon will the final results be online.
As the editor of SAC Booklet 2020 I ask you to send me some photos and maybe some short stories from your time spend in the SAC tests – or just some pictures of your radio, your antennas and your shack.
Every contribution will be appreciated !
We have reached the deadline for 2020 booklet so no more material this time.
Best 73 de OZ2I Henning
The SAC SSB preliminary scores are now ready. We received 1055 logs, close to the record in 2014 when we received 1088 logs.
Please check your Category, Score and UBN and tell us if anything looks wrong or if you have questions. Send an email to: support@sactest.net.
Click on your call in the listings, to see the UBN result.
Thanks for all feed-back on the Preliminary Results. We have found some minor bugs in the log checking program and have now updated the results.
Please check your entry! To see the UBN result, click on your call in the listings.
The SAC Robot has so far received more than 900 SSB logs. The deadline is on Friday 16th October 23:59 UTC. If not done already, please submit your log to the Robot at https://www.sactest.net/robot/ !
Received logs are listed at https://www.sactest.net/blog/received_logs.php?mode=SSB and you may re-submit your log as many times you like until the deadline on Friday.
If you have any trouble submitting, please contact us via support@sactest.net for help and guidance.