PEARS go 'off road'

Eighteen members of South Africa's Port Elizabeth Amateur Radio Society were involved in providing communications for the 'Eastern Cape 500 Off-Road Race' which took place on 18 and 19 April in the general area of Port Elizabeth, much of it in the Longmore Forest.

The event was organized by the Algoa Motorsport Club, who also organises the annual VW Rally, for which PEARS has been providing the communications ever since its inception in the mid 1980's.

This event is one of the national series in the sponsored
ABSA National Off-Road Championship. There were something like 45 competitors, including a few international entrants.