{"id":21254,"date":"2018-12-14T15:52:58","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T15:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=21254"},"modified":"2018-12-14T15:55:51","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T15:55:51","slug":"saq-to-transmit-on-christmas-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/headlines\/2018\/12\/14\/saq-to-transmit-on-christmas-eve\/","title":{"rendered":"SAQ to transmit on Christmas Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sweden\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/alexander.n.se\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Alexanderson alternator station SAQ<\/strong><\/a> has planned a Christmas Eve transmission on 17.2kHz.<\/p>\n<p>The transmitter will be tuned up starting at around 0730UTC, and a message will be transmitted at 0800UTC.<\/p>\n<p>The 200kW Alexanderson alternator is an electromechanical transmitter dating back to 1924.<\/p>\n<p>The event will be streamed live on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/AlexanderSAQ\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Alexanderson site YouTube Channel<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Listener reports are invited via email or direct to Radiostationen Grimeton 72, SE-432 98 Grimeton, Sweden.<\/p>\n<p>Amateur radio station SK6SAQ will be active on Christmas Eve on 7.035 and 14.035MHz on CW, and 3.755MHz SSB.<\/p>\n<p>Two stations will be on the air most of the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sweden\u2019s Alexanderson alternator station SAQ has planned a Christmas Eve transmission on 17.2kHz. The transmitter will be tuned up starting at around 0730UTC, and a message will be transmitted at 0800UTC. The 200kW Alexanderson alternator is an electromechanical transmitter dating back to 1924. The event will be streamed live on the Alexanderson site YouTube Channel. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-page-news","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}