One problem with ham radio these days is that most hams live where you can’t put a big old antenna up due to city laws and homeowner covenants. If you’re just working local stations on VHF or UHF, ...

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 station ...

Long before pixels and cell towers, there were dots and dashes. Morse Code was the complicated mainstay communication of choice practically from the day Samuel Morse started clicking his prized ...

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

Last month we looked at contributions to the art made by amateur operators, in particular advancements in Amplitude Modulation, or AM, and how it came to give radio its voice. This month, we will look ...

Morse code is a method of encoding words that was invented in the 19th Century as a way of transmitting messages over long distances. This was before the era of telephones and way before smartphones!

When the first radios and telegraph lines were put into service, essentially the only way to communicate was to use Morse code. The first transmitters had extremely inefficient designs by today’s ...