<div dir="ltr"><h1 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:16pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div class="gmail-attachment" style="border:0px;font-family:&quot;Lucida Grande&quot;,Arial,&quot;Lucida Sans Unicode&quot;,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-weight:400;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(239,239,239)"><a href="https://ukamsat.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/david-bowman1.jpg" title="David Bowman G0MRF" rel="attachment" style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,79,153)"><img width="250" height="196" src="https://ukamsat.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/david-bowman1.jpg?w=250" class="gmail-attachment-1200x1200 gmail-size-1200x1200" alt="David Bowman G0MRF" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; height: auto; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-radius: 4px; padding: 4px;"></a></div><div class="entry-caption" style="border:0px;font-family:Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,Times,serif;font-size:1.25rem;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;margin:6px 0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(119,119,119);text-align:center;background-color:rgb(239,239,239)"><p style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:12.5px;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">David Bowman G0MRF</p><p style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:12.5px;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><img src="cid:ii_160b6ebd666af4db" alt="Imagem intercalada 1" width="458" height="344"></p><p style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:12.5px;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><strong style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;text-align:start;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);box-sizing:border-box">Dave Riley AA1A</strong><br></p></div></h1><h1 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:16pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">First transatlantic 472 kHz band contact</h1><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">The ARRL reports on first transatlantic contact on 630 meters (472 kHz) which took place between <strong style="box-sizing:border-box">David Bowman G0MRF</strong> and <strong style="box-sizing:border-box">Dave Riley AA1A</strong><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">They used the JT9 digital mode to complete the more than 5,160 kilometer contact during the early hours of December 23, 2017. <br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">On the UK end, G0MRF was running a modified Icom IC-7300 with a filtered preamp and a 60-W amplifier to a 250-foot wire configured as an inverted L. AA1A benefited from his near-Atlantic Coast location in Marshfield, Massachusetts, Bowman said.<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">Read the full story at <br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="http://www.arrl.org/news/radio-amateurs-continue-to-plumb-the-spectral-depths" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none">http://www.arrl.org/news/radio-amateurs-continue-to-plumb-the-spectral-depths</a><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">472 kHz site <br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="http://www.472khz.org/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none">http://www.472khz.org/</a><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">G0MRF projects website <br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="http://www.g0mrf.com/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none">http://www.g0mrf.com/</a></p></div>