Randy Gehman, N3LJE, of Waminster ARC talks with members of the Morse Family.
By Norm Fusaro, W3IZ
ARRL Affiliated Club/Mentor Program Manager
September 22, 2004
One of the greatest things about Amateur Radio is that you just never know who you will run into.
Such was the case for Warminster Amateur Radio Club at the special event station the club set up at the Middletown Grange Fair in Wrightstown in Bucks County Pennsylvania.
Randy Gehman, N3LJE, of Waminster ARC talks with members of the Morse Family. |
For decades the club has had an Amateur Radio station on display every year at the Grange Fair where they provide information about ham radio to the public. The club accepts messages from fairgoers and passes the messages along to be delivered via Amateur Radio. This year's event also commemorated the 90th Anniversary of the ARRL and the 50th anniversary of the Agricultural Research Service.
This year the club had visitors from the Morse family. Ms. Adina Fowler Morse along with her
husband Frisco Richard Morse and their son Johstono Alden Morse stopped by the
booth to say hello.
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Samuel F.B. Morse, the inventor of the Morse code, is the great, great, great uncle of Adina. Her father is Warner Alden Morse, N0KYT (SK). The family is steeped in family names and Adina's husband took the name Morse when the two were married.
Adina hopes her son will eventually become interested in
Amateur Radio and Morse code. If you
closely look at the photograph the toddler is instinctively reaching for the
telegraph key. Coincidence?
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