WILMINGTON, N.C. - Dots and dashes darted through the airwaves long before text or instant messages, even before e-mail, cell phones or telephone lines. While these new forms of communication ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Long before pixels and cell towers, there were dots and dashes. Morse Code was the complicated mainstay communication of choice practically from the day Samuel Morse started clicking his prized ...
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 ...
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 ...