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Originally Posted by HamishBoxer
Get that beam up now!The following courtesy again of Southgate ARC.
A historic contact was made on Sunday the 16th June 2019 when the Atlantic was spanned for the first time on 144 MHz.
D41CV on Cape Verde Islands off the coast of Africa managed to work FG8OJ in Guadeloupe on 144.174 MHz using the FT8 digital mode.
The distance was an incredible 3,867 kms.
To put that into context, the distance from the west coast of Ireland to Newfoundland is 3,000 kms.
Tropo prediction maps show a path right across the Atlantic and suggest that even more incredble contacts may be possible.
(Shame it was a digi mode)
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It's a good soundbite but FT8 is basically taking the operator out of the picture there. With no skill or experience whatsoever I got to Australia from London on 2W out on half a dipole in the middle of a tree with it. Half a dipole because I didn't realise that the glue I had sealed the BNC tag ring with in the balun had insulated it from the feed. It was basically a quarter wave 7MHz long wire on the end of 15m of RG58. My tuner just tuned it anyway
