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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 ...

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 ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. - Dots and dashes darted through the airwaves long before text or instant messages, even before e-mail, cell phones or telephone lines. While these new forms of communication ...

I volunteered for the Royal Air Force (the Brylcreem Boys) in May, 1942. Having waited to be called up for a number of weeks, I wrote to remind them. The next thing I knew, they sent my call up papers ...