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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There's a certain allure to being fluent in languages or codes. John Larsen is a retired health administrator with fond memories of working as a... Oct 07, 2010 — There's a certain allure to being ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – A catastrophic blackout could takeout modern modes of telecommunications. And that could spell big trouble for people and agencies that rely on power to communicate via the ...

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 ...