Morse code is a method of encoding words that was invented in the 19th Century as a way of transmitting messages over long distances. This was before the era of telephones and way before smartphones!

Morse code is the Latin or Greek of telecommunications. Considered an archaism by most, it's still used by amateur radio operators, in the navy and in aviation. All you have to do is synthesize a ...

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have created a system that is capable of teaching people Morse code within four hours using a series of vibrations felt near the ear. After being ...

The first public demonstration of the electric telegraph, which uses Morse code, was done on Jan. 11, 1838, by inventors Samuel Breese Morse and Alfred Vail. Learn Your Name in Morse Code Day takes ...

Conventional wisdom holds that the best way to learn a new language is immersion: just throw someone into a situation where they have no choice, and they’ll learn by context. Militaries use immersion ...

The Carter County Amateur Radio Association is offering a four night training session called Introduction to CW and other Digital Modes of Operations for Radio Amateurs. The class begins on Mon., Jan.

Morse Code Day, observed on April 27, honors Samuel Morse, the inventor of Morse code, and celebrates this groundbreaking method of communication. Before modern technology, messages took weeks to ...

• About 45 residents were evacuated from a southeast Rochester townhouse complex after a car crashed into one unit and broke off a gas meter, causing a natural gas leak. • Brad Digre, a 1988 Rochester ...

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 ...

Through the crackle and fuzz of long-distance radio, Karl Thompson easily translated the steady dit-dah, dit-dah, dit-dah of Morse Code from across the Atlantic. Thompson, operating amateur station ...