There was a remarkable trans-Atlantic tropo opening on 144 MHz the 27th and 28th of August 2020 between the Canary Islands and the Caribbean. Several stations on the island of Tenerife managed to make successful contacts on FT8 and SSB with stations on Puerto Rico, Guadeloupe and Martinique.

EA8CXN managed to make at least two trans-Atlantic contacts on SSB with FM5CS on Martinique and FG8OJ on Guadeloupe, a distance of approximately 4,800 kms.

The contacts with Puerto Rico were in the region of 5,200 kms which is a new distance record across the Atlantic. Back on the 8th of April 2020, D4VHF on Cape Verde worked PJ2BR on Curacao and the distance on that occasion was about 4759 kms.

Amazingly, EB1DJ in the north-west of Spain reports that he got one single decode of the FT8 signal from KP4EIT in Puerto Rico...a distance of just over 6000 kms.

More Infomation - https://ei7gl.blogspot.com/2020/08/trans-atlantic-opening-on-144-mhz.html