Amateur Radio Contact – New Zealand – 8000 + Miles – 20 Meters (14 Mhz)

KA4UDX <-> ZL2WL on 20 Meters (14.160 Mhz) – with a pretty good DX pileup on him. I couldn’t seem to raise him on OCF Dipole Antenna – Switched to Ground Mounted Trapped Vertical Antenna and got him with about 500 watts station power output here. He is coming in very good, very readable, around 5-5 to 5-7 R.S.T. signal pretty steady going on over 1/2 hour now.

http://www.qrz.com/db/zl2wl

ZL2WL – Google Earth Distance – Measured 8003 miles with Google Earth Ruler Tool

ZL2WL-Google-Earth (New Zealand Location)

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73 de KA4UDX,

Alan Spicer

Latitude -39.646328 (39° 38′ 46” S)

Longitude 176.910423 (176° 54′ 37” E)

Grid Square RF80ki

Bearing 236.5° WSW (from KA4UDX)

Distance 8007.5 mi (12886.9 km)