Notes:
1. Multiple callsigns used with a single
rig.
2. Portable indicators are not
necessarily shown when in call area indicated by
callsign.
3. Contacts above 275 GHz only between
licensed radio amateurs are shown in the records table, to encourage
experimentation. Transmitters must employ coherent signals (e.g.
lasers, not light bulbs) and receivers must employ at least one
stage of electronic detection. Multiple records may be shown if
claims are made for significantly different frequencies of operation
(for example sub-millimetre waves, infrared, visible light). Such
operation is not covered by the regulations pertaining to Amateur
Radio. Operators using these frequencies are responsible for
ensuring that they meet any applicable regulations, such as those
pertaining to safe use of lasers
outdoors.
This table was generated based solely on
QSOs of which VE3SMA is aware. To distinguish laboratory curiosities
from real communications capability a minimum distance of 1 km has
been assumed to be listed here. To be listed, claimants will have to
provide both call signs, distance and date of the QSO. I am unaware
of any QSOs involving stations in Canada on bands between 50 and 275
GHz. Peter Shilton, VE3AX, is compiling Canadian distance record
data for the bands between 144 and 2450 MHz. Please send your claims
for these bands to him at ve2pij at qsl.net.
Where more than one QSO is shown as a
first, it is because the stations made the QSOs within a period of a
few minutes and can be considered co-holders of the "title". Where
more than one QSO is shown as a distance record it is because the
exact path has been worked more than once by different stations, or
(for now) only partial data has been received from the likely record
holder.
Please provide any inputs and updates
to:
ve2pij at
qsl.net
Information sources used in
compiling data:
Above 275 GHz: e-mails from VE7DXG, VE2PIJ
47
GHz: emails from N2EZS, K2LDU, WB2BYP
24 GHz: VE3SMA log, e-mails
from W2EV, WB2VUO, VE6KKZ, VE6TC, K2EHF, K2LDU, phone calls from
VE3OIK, VE3VXO
10 GHz: e-mails from VA3ELE, VE4MA, VE2PIJ, W1AIM, W1FKF, W0ZQ
& VE6TC, VE1BCZ (now VE3SMA) log (+memory), QSOs with VE3OIK,
VE3FN/2
5.7 GHz: VE3SMA log, e-mails from VE3OIK, VE4MA,
VE2PIJ
3.4 GHz: e-mail fom VE4MA, VE2PIJ, VE3SMA log, WW8M QSL card for
VE3SMA
General: e-mail from
N2WK
Contest results used in compiling
data:
10 GHz (+up) Cumulative:
1987,1992,1993,1996
Jan.VHF SS: 1977,1997
June
VHF QSO Party: 1995
Sept. VHF QSO
Party:1985,1994
ARRL UHF Contest:
1994,1995
