The Morse code took communications to a new level more than 160 years ago. The telegraph was the equivalent of today's computer, and the Morse code was its language. In their day, telegraph dots and ...

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 ...

When the S.S. Vestris foundered off the Virginia Capes in 1928 with the loss of 110 lives, it wasn’t for lack of a telegraph officer urgently tapping out Morse code. But the SOS came too late — by six ...

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 ...

A century-old hobby filled with dots and dashes is embroiled in a debate about its future and what level of training should be expected of those called on to help during local and national emergencies ...

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 ...

Technically “SOS,” doesn’t officially stand for any of these phrases. It’s the international abbreviation for distress—not to be confused with an acronym (see acronym vs. abbreviation for the ...

In early February 1948, a strange and urgent morse-code SOS, three dots, three dashes and three dots again, came from a Dutch ...

Today, the signal is casually tossed into texts during dating disasters or outfit emergencies, but its roots come from genuine life-or-death situations at sea. SOS entered official use in 1905 under ...

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 ...

Whether it's a dramatic situation like being stranded at sea or you need a friend to come and rescue you from a boring conversation at a party, SOS is the universal distress call that indicates you ...