The D4VHF station on Cape Verde Islands off the west coast of Africa had another remarkable opening to Europe on 144 MHz on Thursday the 2nd of July 2020. Using the FT8 digital mode, they worked at 20 stations on 2-metres in Italy (11), Slovenia (2) and Croatia (7).

The best DX was 9A6NA who was just over 5000kms away, a remarkable distance for a terrestrial 144 MHz contact.

It is thought that the most likely mode of propagation was a maritime duct from Cape Verde to the coast of Morocco coinciding with a Sporadic-E opening to southern Europe.

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