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RADIO RECORDS: WA1ZMS AND W4WWQ GO 114 KM ON 241 GHZ
A pair of United states hams are now the likely distance holders for a contact on the 241 Gigahertz band.
At 01:24 U-T-C on January 31st, Brian Justin, WA1ZMS portable 4 operating from Grid Square FM07 made contact with Peter Lascell, W4WWQ, also operating portable 4 from Grid Square EM96. That’s a distance of 114.4km and beating out the old record of 79 km by 35.4 Km.
WA1ZMS says that the QSO was over 2 years in the making with several failed attempts at even shorter distances during that time period. He says that the key to success this time was the very driest of winter air that may only take place one day a year in his part of the country. The mode used for the contact was CW. (WA1ZMS)