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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
If you want to learn Morse code and you don’t have a teacher, you’d probably just head over to a website or download a phone app. Before that, you probably bought a cassette tape or a phonograph ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...