<div dir="ltr"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:medium"><tbody style="box-sizing:border-box"><tr style="box-sizing:border-box"><td style="box-sizing:border-box"><div id="gmail-story" style="box-sizing:border-box;width:618.4px;font-size:16px;height:auto;float:left"><h1 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:16pt">FT8 used for record-breaking 432 MHz contacts</h1><p style="box-sizing:border-box">On Saturday morning, Dec 28, there were at least two record-breaking 432 MHz contacts of 4163 km and then 4544 km using the popular digital mode <strong style="box-sizing:border-box">FT8</strong><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">The Netherlands Ham News service reported that at 0900 GMT on Saturday, December 28 a troposcatter contact was made between D41CV on the Cape Verde islands and EI3KD in Carrigaline, County Cork, Eire over a distance of 4163 kilometers using FT8.<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">This was followed by tweet from the @DC4_team that at 1108 GMT on December 28 GM3SEK successfully completed a 4544 km 432 MHz FT8 contact with D41CV<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://twitter.com/D4C_team/status/1210885272214355969" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none">https://twitter.com/D4C_team/status/1210885272214355969</a><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">Read the Ham News story in Google English at<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/NetherlandsHamNews" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none">https://tinyurl.com/NetherlandsHamNews</a></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div>