Scandinavian Activity Contest

This year we celebrate the 50th Scandinavian Activity Contest, it all started in 1959. But wait! It may have started earlier. In the ARRL magazine QST from May 1929 we found this “evidence” of that the SAC may have started allmost 80 years ago.
Click on the “thumbnail picture” to see the full article.
What do you think? This was perhaps what inspired the founders of the current SAC allmost 30 years later. In 1963 we find the first “stray” about SAC published in QST from September 1963.

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How is the view from the Scandinavian horizon? Click on the Great Circle Map above to see how the radio horizon looks from Scandinavia. Interesting targets are of course North America and Far East, but in between we sometimes have lady Aurora Borealis! Currently when the sunspots are almost absent we hope that the Lady stays at home and not get out to dance in the ionosphere. And it looks promising the forecast is saying that we will have low K-index during both the CW and SSB leg of SAC.

Preliminary Forecast
Here is a preliminary forecast for SAC with Sweden, Stockholm as QTH.
Go to Forecast…
Update
What do you think about this type of propagation presentation? It may be convenient for band planning and decision before and during the contest. Take a look at Forecast Table for SAC
In a couple of days we hope to present some more detailed propagation forecasts for the contest. Stay tuned!

You may now upload photos of you and your radio, antennas etc.

Go to the Photo Upload Page to upload. Please limit your photo size to below 1Mbyte.

Don’t forget to announce your planned operations during SAC CW and SSB. Goto the Announcement page to see who will be on during SAC.

Njae kanske inte! Men vi leder i varje fall logstatistiken än så länge! Så här såg det ut den 11:e oktober om man tittar på CCF:s lista över mottagna loggar.

        CW     SSB     TOTALT
Sverige 78(94) 92(89)  170(183)
Finland 63(55) 57(38)  120(93)

2006 års siffror inom parentes.
Tendensen är helt klar, Finland har satsat rejält på att få igång fler stationer i år!