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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">144 MHz Trans-Equatorial Propagation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Erico Salutti PU2WHY has posted a video of his 2m FM contact with Jean-Louis Maridet FM8DY over a distance of 4268 kilometers
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The YouTube description reads:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I caught one very very rare DX contact by TEP (Trans-Equatorial Propagation). I'm in GG57AS, operating base with one Icom IC-2200H transceiver and one 3x5/8 GP-7MKII antenna (made in China, bought in Paraguay, this is
a vertical cheap antenna).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">With 65w I got 58 from FM8DY in FK94MO, Martinique Island, 4268 kilometers away (2652 miles). Radio operator Jean-Louis Maridet. I've recorded this video on hurry, so I don't have the start of QSO, where Jean told me
I was 58 to him.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I told him he was 56 for me, because his first signal was 56, and then I didn't looked to my transceiver anymore, I just wrote all the informations of this QSO on my notebook and heard him, this is why I told him he was
56 for me when he really was 52 (I'm sorry Jean). In this video Jean was running 100w on a 16 element Yagi horizontally polarized.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I'm sorry about my ugly station guys, we are overhauling over here, cleaning and opening more space for my "new" Kenwood TS-440S/AT that it coming on the way.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">To know more about this rare phenomenon, acess:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"></span>English - http://bit.ly/ficFpH<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Portuguese - http://bit.ly/htlp0w<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Watch DX on 2 meter VHF band between PU2WHY (Brazil) and FM8DY (Martinique) by TEP<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/embed/uYJnCqPhM2U?rel=0">http://www.youtube.com/embed/uYJnCqPhM2U?rel=0</a>
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