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Date By Manager Notes 2009-10-06 MN0OCG MI0MVP Mr ALEX MI0MVP QSL MANAGER SEE QRZ.COM

Callsign: MN0OCG Name: ORCHARD COUNTY DX CLUB URL: http://WWW.MN0OCG.CO.UK Views:2379	Country: Northern Ireland Lat: 54.408703 Lon: -6.604478	Information supplied by QRZ.com
QRZ.com Bio                                                                                 Club Web Site Now  http://www.mn0ocg.co.uk   RAMS ISLAND  After our trial period on the island,we have finally been given permission to operate from 17th/18th Oct 2009 and will be on the following bands 20,40,80,17,15 mtrs please listen out for us and get your call in our log.                                       Alex MI0MVP Club Admin.         www.ramsisland.org   The most obvious monastic relic is the Round Tower which stands on top of a steep eminence near the east shore of the island. It is constructed from fairly small rounded stones which may well have come from the island's shores, and is forty three feet high, but was probably somewhat higher when it was originally built. The original doorway was about eight feet above ground level on the south side of the tower, a more recent one at ground level on the west side was built up in the late 1960s to give the tower extra strength and to hinder vandals. Two fairly small windows survive further up the tower. In the eighteenth century Ram's Island was owned by a fisherman named David McAreavy who sold it for one hundred guineas in 1804 to the Lord O’Neill. When Lord O’Neill bought the Island it was just over six acres and due to the four lowerings of Lough Neagh (some two metres in total) the Island has grown to some 40 acres. The pre McMahon Scheme (mid nineteenth century) waterline protected by rocks set into the banks can be followed around the original Island. The pre Shepherd Scheme (1930’s) waterline is marked by Cardwells Harbour. In the early nineteenth century the Lord O'Neill built a charming thatched cottage in the English style, just below the Round Tower. A cottage for a caretaker was also built.  Click here to download an article by the late Jim McGarry about the Cardwells and Rams Island (PDF 500kb) During the Second World War the Island was a favorite spot for visits by the American Eighth Army Air Force stationed at Langford Lodge. One night during the war, vandals visited the island and burned down the cottage. Another exciting activity on Lough Neagh during world war two was  the formation of a flying-boat base in Sandy Bay in the shelter of Rams Island. The entire bay was surveyed before laying down twelve flying-boat moorings with special rubber buoys and pick-up harness, also a number of marine craft moorings for attendant vessels and refuellers, plus four flying-boat moorings east of Rams Island (sheltered from westerlies). In order to guide the flying-boats and marine craft out into the open Lough, a number of navigation buoys (gas-lit, flashing) were laid out, tracking to the north of Rams Island and also to the south. Sunderland flying boats used these moorings and service facilities for the remainder of the war. Sunderland and Tender Lough Neagh, Rams Island and Sandy Bay played their part during the build up to the D day landings The first transatlantic service by PB2Y Coronado was operated by the U.S. Navy Naval Air Transport Service from New York to Sandy Bay, via the flying-boat base at Botwood in Newfoundland. Materials for the war effort were flown in daily to Sandy Bay.

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