Goshen Amateur Radio Operators Tune Into the World:

Four-year-old Brodric Thrash of Bristol smiled while wearing a pair of headphones much too big for him during the Amateur Radio Field Day exercise at Fidler Pond Saturday. He was hearing old-time Morse Code dots and dashes in the headset while his dad was taking part in an amateur radio field day. Several members of the Goshen Amateur Radio Club set up their ham radios to operate from a remote location for 24 hours as part of the field day event at Fidler Pond. The members were among more than 35,000 radio amateurs who gathered with their clubs, groups or friends to operate from remote locations, said David Menges, a member of the Goshen radio club. Field Day demonstrates ham radio's ability to work reliably under field conditions from almost any location and create an independent communications network, Menges added. "The contest part of field day is to contact as many other stations as possible and learn to operate our radio gear in abnormal situations and in less than optimal conditions," Menges said. "We won't place, it's more for fun than the competitiveness. We practice our emergency response capabilities and it's just fun for us to spend 24 hours together."

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