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 ...

Larry Kahaner - Larry Kahaner is an American journalist and author who resides in Bethesda, Maryland. Steve Galchutt shows off the custom-made low-wattage transmitter he uses on his treks. Chase Brush ...

The Baader-Meinhof effect is the common name for what scientists call frequency illusion. Suppose you are watching Star Trek’s Christopher Pike explain how he makes pasta mama, and you’ve never heard ...

When Samuel Morse sent the Bible passage "What hath God wrought" from the basement of the Capitol in Washington D.C. to Alfred Vail in Baltimore in May of 1844, he might not have suspected that Vail's ...

Learning Morse Code is no longer a requirement for HAMs in many jurisdictions, but it’s still a nice skill to have. [I_void(warranties)] wanted to learn, but couldn’t find a trainer that fit his style ...

Morse code, the language of the telegraph, is a system of communication that's composed of combinations of short and long tones that represent the letters of the alphabet. The tones are sometimes ...

It may be an antiquated form of communication, but many Australians from all walks of life are helping to keep Morse code alive. Leo Nette calls himself a proud "Morsecodian" and has been a long-time ...

The first message sent by Morse code’s dots and dashes across a long distance traveled from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore on Friday, May 24, 1844 – 175 years ago. It signaled the first time in human ...

The other day I bought some old books, one of which was all about radio. It was from 1925, and proved to be a repository of perhaps the worst writing I have ever consumed. But one section stood out.