ARLA/CLUSTER: As potencialidades reais para um novo recorde em 432 MHz com Cabo Verde.

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

New 432 MHz station on Cape Verde Islands raises possibility of new records
being set
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*144 & 432 MHz Yagi antennas on Cape Verde*So far in 2019, the D4C contest
team have made some pretty amazing contacts on 144 MHz. Using the call
*D41CV*, they have worked across the Atlantic to the Caribbean, up to the
UK, France and Ireland via marine tropo ducting and into Germany, Italy and
Slovenia with a combined Sporadic-E / marine ducting mode.

Many of these contacts were well in excess of 4000 kms in distance. See
links to posts HERE <https://ei7gl.blogspot.com/p/144-mhz.html>.

The D4C team have recently announced that they are now active on *432 MHz*
 (70cms).

"*We are now capable to be active on #70cm #432Mhz #uhf using a 16 El yagi
"Pinocchio" model (wooden boom) home made. **Transverter connected to
@FlexRadioSystem **6600M driving a solid state PA running 100W seems
working as we have worked on SSB loc IM66 for 3000 km dx #hamradio*"

As the tropo prediction map from F5LEN shows below, a marine duct off the
west coast of Africa seems to exist for long periods of time during the
Summer and Autumn months.

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This should allow D41CV on the Cape Verde Islands to work up to coastal
stations in Spain and Portugal on 432 MHz, a distance of roughly 2,900 kms

*Potential for new records???*

Before we look at the potential of D41CV setting new records, we should
probably look first at what the current IARU Region 1 record for tropo on
432 MHz is.

Back on the *9th of July 2015*, G4LOH in the south-west of England worked
D44TS on *432 MHz* CW. This was a sea path of roughly 4070 kms, an amazing
distance for 70 cms.

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This contact was as a result of the marine duct extending much further
north so that it managed to get as far as England.

Just to show how good conditions were that day, here is video clip showing
G4LOH hearing the D4C/B beacon on 432 MHz...

https://youtu.be/LApzLuabZXk

One important point here is that *G4LOH* worked *D44TS* where as *D41CV* is
actually on a different island. As you can seen from the map below, Cape
Verde is spread out over several different islands...

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You'll also notice that D41CV is further south than D44TS.

If we now look at how far *4070 kms* is from D41CV then we get this map...

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This means that if anyone in Ireland, Wales or England managed to work
D41CV on 432 MHz then it would be a new IARU Region 1 tropo record.

I would suggest that as long as there is a 432 MHz capable station active
on Cape Verde Islands then this is probably a case of '*when*' rather than '
*if *'.

*Trans-Atlantic on 432 MHz???*

It's hard to imagine a 70cms signal getting across the Atlantic but it's
something that can't be discounted.

Earlier in June of 2019
<https://ei7gl.blogspot.com/2019/06/historic-trans-atlantic-contact-made-on.html>,
there was a tropo duct across the Atlantic from Cape Verde to the Caribbean
which lasted several days and allowed the propagation of 144 MHz signals.

If 144 MHz signals lasted for several days, was there a shorter period of
time when 432 MHz signals would have propagated inside the marine duct?

If it were possible then this is what the 4070 km distance from D41CV looks
like...

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If a 432 MHz signal can travel 4070 kms from Cape Verde Islands to England
then perhaps trans-Atlantic is not impossible?

There should be some interesting times in the months and years ahead as
these possibilities are explored.

*Links...*
1) Archive from G4LOH's blog
<http://www.champagnebohemian.com/g4loh/archives/2015_07.html>
2) IARU Region 1 tropo records for 432 MHz
<http://vushf.dk/vushf/wp-content/plugins/IARU-DxList/ShowQso.php?Call=D44TS&Band=432%20MHz&Propagation=TR&Distance=3284>
3) F5LEN Tropo Forecast <http://tropo.f5len.org/>

Fonte: https://ei7gl.blogspot.com/
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