OZ1FF (JO45) and F6APE (IN97) set a new world record for 3cm rain scatter communication on the 25th of May. With the help of tropo over the North Sea, a whopping 1099km QSO was possible. All the details are here. Congratulations, boys!

After some tries, they did it: G4LOH IO70JC and D44TD HK86NO set a new record for 2m tropo range in the IARU Region 1: 4049km. Congrats, boys, well done.

G4LOH reports about a new 144MHz sporadic-E world record of 4293,6km between EA8AVI (IL28) and YO4FNG (KN44), and YO4FNG is claiming that QSO himself, too. That is beating the 1989 record of OE1SSB and RI8TA. While not exactly being related with contesting, i found that remarkable enough to publish it here.