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

[João Gonçalves Costa]

Record breaking UK Lightwave contact video

Peter Day G3PHO reports that a video of the new UK lightwave record breaking 111 km contact is now available.

He writes:

I've just uploaded a hastily edited video taken at the Sheffield end of G8AGN/P and G0EWN/P's UK record breaking 111km contact on Wednesday 6th April 2011. As we had no lighting (apart from the red luxeon!!!) a lot of the video is merely shadowy stuff but the audio comes through loud and clear.

If you have any comments please leave them at the You Tube site.

Congrats to Barry and Gordon on a fine job.

Peter G3PHO

P.S the April 2011 edition of the UK Microwave Group newsletter, Scatterpoint, will carry this news and the other exciting developments at lightwaves made by the North Eastern group.

Watch 111km lightwave record.m4v
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD0OJrYFIVA


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De: cluster-bounces  radio-amador.net [mailto:cluster-bounces  radio-amador.net] Em nome de João Gonçalves Costa
Enviada: segunda-feira, 11 de Abril de 2011 10:56
Para: 'Resumo Noticioso Electrónico ARLA'
Assunto: ARLA/CLUSTER: Novo recorde de distancia em comunicações ópticas no Reino Unido

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