The incredible tropo conditions between Cape Verde Islands and the Caribbean continue to amaze with trans-Atlantic contacts on 144 MHz and 432 MHz being made.

On Wednesday the 8th of April 2020, D4VHF in the Cape Verde Islands managed to work PJ2BR on Curacao on 144 MHz using the FT8 digital mode.

The distance was approximately 4,759 km which is roughly 300 km further than the previous trans-Atlantic record of 4,460 km set between D41CV and NP4BM on Puerto Rico in June of 2019.

The new 2-metre trans-Atlantic record distance was just 10 km or so short of the IARU Region-1 144 MHz tropo record of 4,769 km.