ARLA/CLUSTER: Novo recorde de distancia em comunicações ópticas no Reino Unido

[João Gonçalves Costa]

New distance record set for optical communication

On 3 April a new distance record set for optical communication by a group of radio amateurs from North-East England. 

The distance worked was just a few metres short of 90km. Signals were exchanged on FM and SSB at remarkable strengths. 

The contact was made from Race Head in County Durham, which is locator IO94VS to Danby Moor near Whitby, which is locator IO84NK. 

The team at Race Head included two stations, Stuart, G8CYW running the transverter and LED transceiver of his design featured in recent articles in RadCom, and Brian, G8KPD also running his version of the designs, plus separate receive and transmit heads. 

The station on Danby Moor was operated by Rob, M0DTS using his version of the transverter featured in RadCom