Amateur radio operators, the last bastion of the dot-dot-dash, have long been required to pass a Morse code test to earn a license from the U.S. government. After years of fielding complaints from a ...

Though it's been a hundred years since the invention of voice broadcasting, that doesn't mean people have stopped using its predecessor, Morse code. But as of yesterday, the people most likely to use ...

Just over three years ago, the Federal Communications Commission ignited a firestorm in the amateur radio community by proposing to eliminate Morse Code as a requirement for ham radio operators ...

In the modern world of smartphones and lightning fast internet, amateur (ham) radio operators still enjoy communicating over the radio by tapping telegraph keys just like the pioneers did in the ...

Jim Charlong works his Morse code key. All photos courtesy of Parks Canada. GLACE BAY, Nova Scotia — On Dec.17, 1902, from the seaside Table Head radio station at Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Guglielmo ...

It may be the ultimate SOS--Morse Code is in distress. The language of dots and dashes has been the lingua franca of amateur radio, a vibrant community of technology buffs and hobbyists who have ...

Computers and cell phones have become the norm of communication. What would happen if we faced a catastrophic emergency or lost our electrical grid, making our phones and computers useless? Who would ...

POINT REYES NATIONAL SEASHORE, Calif. — It has been a little more than a decade since the last of the nation’s commercial Morse code radio stations officially went off the air, as new technology sank ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. PARIS — Richard Andrews grew up in Waterford on his parent’s farm where he ...

One of two new digital works in the allGehr program Morse Code is not only clever its unexpectedly funny Having now spent several years exploring the possibilities of DV one senses that Gehr has ...

Ken Frieling was a 21-year-old working at lumber yard in Chicago in 1965 when he received the letter he had been expecting to arrive. It was Uncle Sam summoning him to the United States military. “I ...