 FISTS marks a milestone
The organisation that supports the use, preservation and education of Morse code is called FISTS and it has been doing its sterling job for 25 years.
Available to members are anniversary mugs from England and T-shirts have been produced in the United States of America. Other collectables are likely to be planned.
The mugs are from Robert Walker M0BPT m0bpt@yahoo.co.uk of UK FISTS while the limited-edition T-shirts in shades of grey with the 25th birthday logo screened are from Nancy Kott WZ8C http://www.fists.org/ of US FISTS.
FISTS the CW Club, also known as the International Morse Preservation Society, began in 1987, is organised though area chapters and still going very strong.
Its members can he heard particularly on 1.808 MHz, 3.528 MHz, 7.028 MHz, 10.118 MHz, 14.058 MHz, 18.085 MHz, 21.058 MHz, 24.918 MHz and 28.058 MHz.
Jim Linton VK3PC
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