Morse code, the dots-and-dashes signalling system first used at sea on the Titanic and long since consigned to the scrapheap, made a triumphant comeback this week in the rescue of a stranded fisherman ...
The RMS Titanic leaves Belfast, 1912. * Photo: Courtesy of U.S. National Archives and Records Administration * 1904: "CQD" is adopted as the international distress signal for the operators of Marconi ...
SPRINGFIELD - It is perhaps the most readily recognizable Morse code message. Dot-dot-dot, dash-dash-dash, dot-dot-dot. The three dots, dashes and dots mean SOS, or send help. But Samuel F.B. Morse's ...
When the S.S. Vestris foundered off the Virginia Capes in 1928 with the loss of 110 lives, it wasn’t for lack of a telegraph officer urgently tapping out Morse code. But the SOS came too late — by six ...
A century-old hobby filled with dots and dashes is embroiled in a debate about its future and what level of training should be expected of those called on to help during local and national emergencies ...
Q: All my life, I thought SOS stood for Save Our Ship, but someone recently told me it’s not an acronym for anything. What is it then? Bernie Delinski writes Just Ask, which runs Wednesdays in the ...
Morse Code will soon be dropped as a requirement for amateur radio operators, a change that has stirred up passions among many hams, as radio amateurs are called. On Friday, the Federal Communications ...
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