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 ...

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 ...

A 90-year-old widower was saved by an supermarket delivery driver when he broke his hip - and used his car horn as Morse code.Retired panel beater Keith Turner was left injured when he slipped on his ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Federal Communications Commission proposal will modernize the maritime distress and safety system and phase out the use of Morse code. The new system will change international distress ...

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 ...