Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... 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 ...

The BBC News Magazine has an interesting look at changes in distress communications in the article Save our SOS. It notes it’s been 100 years since “SOS” became the standard signal for ships in ...

Today, the signal is casually tossed into texts during dating disasters or outfit emergencies, but its roots come from genuine life-or-death situations at sea. SOS entered official use in 1905 under ...

It may be the ultimate SOS. Morse code is in distress. The language of dots and dashes has been the lingua franca of amateur radio, a vibrant community of technology buffs and hobbyists who have ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Videos on social media show Canadians reportedly standing at the United States-Canada border while holding an upside-down Canadian flag and using lights to Morse code “SOS” in response to the ...