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<DIV><SPAN id=phc_Text style="DISPLAY: inline-block"><FONT face=Verdana
size=5><STRONG>500 kHz distance record broken again
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<P><SPAN style="DISPLAY: inline-block"><FONT face=Verdana>On February 21, Neil
Schwanitz, V73NS, on Rio-Namur in the Marshall Islands in the Pacific, received
a signal from experimental station WD2XSH/6. </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="DISPLAY: inline-block"><FONT face=Verdana>This experimental
station, operated by Pat Hamel, W5THT, is located in Long Beach, Mississippi -
6679 miles from the island in the Kwajalein atoll. </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="DISPLAY: inline-block"><FONT face=Verdana>This contact breaks
the previous record for the longest 500 kHz contact. That record, set in January
2008, was for a distance of 4737 miles from Cottage Grove, Oregon to Roi-Namur.
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<P><FONT face=Verdana>Fonte: Radio Bulgaria's DX
programme</FONT><BR></P></BODY></HTML>