CQIR:  Ireland Calling announcement

In 2007, the Irish Radio Transmitters Society celebrates the 75th anniversary of its founding in 1932.

As part of the jubilee celebrations the Society is organising an International Amateur Radio Contest, 'CQIR - Ireland Calling'.

For this event, references to Ireland mean the island of Ireland and its offshore islands - both EI and GI.

CQIR is a once-off event with a difference - the difference being that overseas Entrants with 75 or more QSO's have the opportunity to win a trip to Ireland.

CQIR is a 24-hour, single-operator HF CW/SSB contest on the weekend of the 29th and 30th of September 2007. As this is the fifth full weekend in the month, there is no clash with any established event.

CQIR is a celebration of both the IRTS Jubilee and the "Irish" amateur radio community world-wide. It's where the Irish, at home and abroad, work the World - and where those of Irish descent identify themselves by including their ancestral County in the exchange: County Mayo, County Antrim etc.

Full rules and county codes will appear on www.irts.ie
and will be available shortly in Echo Ireland. Free software will be provided to support CQIR.

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