The A.W.A. Electronic Communication Museum opens for the 2003 season on Sunday, May 4. The electronic communication theme covers techniques from the telegraph and Morse code era through modern communications, with an emphasis on early radio, has been in operation since 1952, and is thus celebrating 51 years of operation.

This year's new exhibits include operational 1920's television equipment using all mechanical techniques, and displays also include one of the world's first transistor radios, the world's first cell phone, the world's first FM radio transmitter and other items. See history-making Marconi wireless apparatus such as used on the Titanic, visit a 1925 radio store, send a message on a 1949 teletype unit. Local radio historians staff this New York state chartered museum and will provide a guided tour.

The AWA Museum is located on South Avenue in Bloomfield, southeast of Rochester, just off Routes 5 and 20 near the village green, at the site of the East Bloomfield Historical Society. Look for the road signs in town. The museum is open Sundays from 2 to 5 p.m., May through October and Saturdays from 2 to 4 p.m., June through August (closed holiday weekends).

For group tour information call the museum curator, Edward Gable, at 585-392-3088 or e-mail k2mp@eznet.net. Visit the AWA web site at www.antiquewireless.org. Museum admission, a complimentary copy of the historical publication, the "Old Timer's Bulletin," and parking are all free.