Larry Kahaner - Larry Kahaner is an American journalist and author who resides in Bethesda, Maryland. Steve Galchutt shows off the custom-made low-wattage transmitter he uses on his treks. Chase Brush ...

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 decades, ...

The other day I bought some old books, one of which was all about radio. It was from 1925, and proved to be a repository of perhaps the worst writing I have ever consumed. But one section stood out.

Morse code, the language of the telegraph, is a system of communication that's composed of combinations of short and long tones that represent the letters of the alphabet. The tones are sometimes ...

“Calling all. This is our last cry before our eternal silence.” With that, in January 1997, the French coast guard transmitted its final message in Morse code. Ships in distress had radioed out dits ...