Today at one past midnight, a form of communication long used by both radio amateurs and communications pioneers slipped further into the annals of history. The FCC formally removed the requirement ...
With the exception of non-Class A LPTV and translator licensees that use Morse code to identify their transmitters, broadcasters have little use for the code. Many readers, however, are amateur radio ...
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 ...
The subject says it all, but here is the ARRLs take on it. I'm fracking thrilled. I've studied the code on and off for several years but I just could never get into it. There was just something about ...
When the first radios and telegraph lines were put into service, essentially the only way to communicate was to use Morse code. The first transmitters had extremely inefficient designs by today’s ...
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 ...
On July 4, hours before fireworks filled the night sky over the USS Kidd, there were quieter sounds that would have been familiar to those who served aboard the old Navy destroyer. Morse code.
Larry Kahaner | Larry Kahaner is an American journalist and author who resides in Bethesda, Maryland. For almost 20 years, Steve Galchutt, a retired graphic designer, has trekked up Colorado mountains ...
If you are a ham radio operator of a certain age, you probably remember ads for “The Instructograph,” a mechanical device for learning Morse code. [Our Own Devices] has an ancient specimen of the ...