{"id":61454,"date":"2024-12-20T06:17:10","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T10:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=61454"},"modified":"2024-12-20T06:17:10","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T10:17:10","slug":"saq-on-the-air-christmas-eve-morning-dec-24th-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/saq-on-the-air-christmas-eve-morning-dec-24th-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"SAQ On The Air Christmas Eve Morning (Dec 24th 2024)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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SAQ antenna tower #1 with its tuning coil. (Photo source: The Alexander association)<\/p><\/div>\n

Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Paul Jamet, who notes that\u00a0SAQ will be on the air on Christmas Eve Morning, Dec 24th 2024.<\/p>\n

Details can be found here:
\nhttps:\/\/alexander.n.se\/saq-to-air-on-christmas-eve-morning-dec-24th-2024\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Paul Jamet, who notes that\u00a0SAQ will be on the air on Christmas Eve Morning, Dec 24th 2024. Details can be found here: https:\/\/alexander.n.se\/saq-to-air-on-christmas-eve-morning-dec-24th-2024\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[3619,9691,1416],"class_list":["post-61454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-alexanderson-alternator-station-saq","tag-paul-jamet","tag-radio-grimeton-saq"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-fZc","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":58564,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/saq-transmission-scheduled-for-christmas-eve-morning\/","url_meta":{"origin":61454,"position":0},"title":"SAQ transmission scheduled for Christmas Eve morning","author":"Thomas","date":"December 23, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Kris (G8AUU), who shares the following announcement from SAQ: SAQ transmission scheduled for Christmas Eve morning, Dec. 24th On Christmas Eve morning, Sunday December 24th 2023, SAQ Grimeton is scheduled* to be on the air, to send out the traditional Christmas message to the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "News"","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/SAQ.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/SAQ.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/SAQ.jpeg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/SAQ.jpeg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/SAQ.jpeg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/SAQ.jpeg?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":55111,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/saq-transmission-scheduled-for-christmas-eve-morning-dec-24th\/","url_meta":{"origin":61454,"position":1},"title":"Cancelled: SAQ transmission scheduled for Christmas Eve morning, Dec. 24th","author":"Thomas","date":"December 20, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: The Alexander association) Update: This broadcast has been cancelled due to several of the SAQ staff contracting Covid-19. 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