Amateur radio operators can talk around the world with a radio the size of a pack of cigarettes, though entrenched among them are the preservationists who do Morse code for fun.

How Does Morse Code Work? Samuel Morse is to the telegraph what Thomas Edison is to the light bulb—he didn’t necessarily invent the technology, but he did perfect it.

Through the crackle and fuzz of long-distance radio, Karl Thompson easily translated the steady dit-dah, dit-dah, dit-dah of Morse Code from across the Atlantic. Thompson, operating amateur ...

Morse code requirements for ham radio have been dwindling for more than a decade. The FCC dropped the morse code requirement for the beginner's amateur radio license in 1993.

Ten members of the Baton Rouge Amateur Radio Club discussed their experiences in contacting other amateurs around the world using Morse code at the club’s meeting on Oct. 29.

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 technology is old and Morse Code complicated, but Ham radio operators remain relevant even today.

Aviators also use Morse code to identify automated navigational aids. These are radio beacons that help pilots follow routes, traveling from one transmitter to the next on aeronautical charts.

More than 150 listeners across the U.S., Italy, France and Japan huddled by their radio to decipher a series of Morse Code transmitted by the Maritime Radio Historical Society.