flares. I sent copies of ARGO pictures to Dave@picks.
73 de John VE1ZJ
Mike Dennison wrote:
> 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
