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<h1 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:16pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">EI3KD works Cape Verde Islands on 144 MHz to set new DX record</h1><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">On Sunday the 5th of August 2018,<span> </span><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">Mark Turner EI3KD</strong><span> </span>managed to work<span> </span><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">D4Z</strong><span> </span>on the Cape Verde Islands off the coast of of Africa on 144 MHz, a distance of some 4163 kms. This remarkable contact, made on CW, was a new record for tropo in IARU Region 1. The previous record of 4130 kms was set back in July of 2015.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">The contact was made on 144.300 MHz at about 18:26 UTC at a time when the band was also open to the Canary Islands from the south of Ireland and the UK.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Just to give an idea of just how far the new record is, if the same distance of 4163 kms was measured west of EI3KD's location in Ireland then it would reach as far as Nova Scotia in Canada!</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Full info...<span> </span><a href="http://ei7gl.blogspot.com/2018/08/ei3kd-works-cape-verde-on-144-mhz-to.html" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">http://ei7gl.blogspot.com/2018/08/ei3kd-works-cape-verde-on-144-mhz-to.html</a></p>
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