Glengormley Electronics ARS success in IOTA contest

The Glengormley Electronics Amateur Radio Society, GEARS – GN0XYZ, once again put MI6X on the air from Ballycarry for the IOTA contest.

This year they smashed their contact tally for 2006 by logging nearly 900 QSO’s and 152 IOTA references in just over 18 hours of operation.

A number of English amateurs who took part last year returned again this year to enjoy the famous ‘Craic’ before and after the event.

Over the past few years, GEARS has become involved in the RSGB’s IOTA contest operating from both Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic.

In the last two years though they have stayed on home soil using their contest call of MI6X IOTA reference EU-115 from a community centre in the village of Ballycarry Co. Antrim.

Source: GB2RS News - Courtesy of the RSGB