From: "Mike Dennison" <mike.dennison@rsgb.org.uk>
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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 10:38:06 -0000
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Subject: LF: More on last weekend
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I have calculated the locator of Larry, VA3LK, as either FN14TQ or 
FN14UQ, which makes the distance between him and Ko, NL9222, 
5731 or 5726km. This is the current world one-way record. 
Congratulations to both stations.

I have submitted the following story to the RSGB newsdesk (my 
colleagues in the next office) for use on the weekly GB2RS news 
bulletin. Please let me know urgently if I have anything wrong.

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Over the weekend of the 12th to the 14th of January, stations in Canada, 
the USA and Europe attempted the first two-way transatlantic contact on 
the 136kHz band. Although the two-way was not successful, the one-way 
distance record was broken in both directions. VE1ZZ received OK1FIG 
at distance of 5694km, and SWL NL9222 received VA3LK at a world 
record distance of 5726km.
G0MRF, who was the first station to cross the Atlantic on 
136kHz, put up his antenna on an apartment block on the Sunday, but was 
hampered by the high static levels and poor conditions that made that 
day's tests a washout at both ends. On the Saturday, several UK stations 
received good signals from Canada but MM0ALM was the only 
European, apart from OK1FIG, to make it in the opposite direction.
Extremely slow Morse was used by all stations to enable signals 
to be decoded well below the noise level. VE1ZZ was occasionally 
audible in the UK but the strength was not sufficient to read normal 
speed Morse.
The USA team, operating from North Carolina, heard a number 
of LF stations including VE1ZZ, but no Europeans.
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Mike, G3XDV (IO91VT)
http://www.lf.thersgb.net