The Titanic famously (or infamously) used Morse code to call out in distress at the end of its final voyage. Ships at sea and the land-based stations that supported them used Morse code for ...
If you are a ham radio operator of a certain age, you probably remember ads for “The Instructograph,” a mechanical device for learning Morse code. [Our Own Devices] has an ancient specimen of ...
To start the week but finish with Morse Code, David Swain of Glenhaven wants it known that, “We can’t leave without mentioning Beethoven. His 5th Symphony opening (da da da DAAH) translates as V, and ...
Tuesday’s mention of “train smash” of mince with tomato sauce brought word from William Galton of Hurstville Grove that ...
Shirley Gill of Normanhurst, now with Ted aged 94, learnt Morse and semaphore as a girl guide and ranger. “As rangers we ...
Morse code is a communication system developed by Samuel Morse, an American inventor, in the late 1830s. The code uses a combination of short and long pulses – dots and dashes, respectively ...
On August 2, 1947, Stardust's radio operator sent a final message in Morse code to the Chilean radio operator then on duty in Santiago. The full message sent at 17.41 hrs was as follows ...
A character code invented by Samuel Morse that is represented by the duration of a single tone. Written as dots, dashes and spaces, the first Morse code message was sent in 1844 over a newly ...