On July 12, 1999, the nation’s final message in Morse code was sent out to sea from a remote Bay Area radio station. The end of an era, the room’s mood was mournful. Grizzled old men wept. “We wish ...

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, ...

Alan Higbie signed up for the Army to avoid the infantry; he ended up talking to a revolution. It all started with a crystal ...

North of Silicon Valley, protected by the Point Reyes National Seashore, is the only operational ship-to-shore maritime radio station. Bearing the call sign KPH, the Point Reyes Station is the last of ...

The Maritime Radio Historical Society , working with the Marconi Conference Center, will return Morse code radio station KPH to the air from its original Marin County, Calif., location on Feb. 26. KPH ...

The sounds of Morse code will crackle in a distant outpost in West Marin on Thursday, honoring a bygone age when the system was used to protect mariners on rough oceans. For decades, coasts around the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Just over three years ago, the Federal Communications Commission ignited a firestorm in the amateur radio community by proposing to eliminate Morse Code as a requirement for ham radio operators ...

“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 ...

“Nestled within the Point Reyes National Seashore, north of San Francisco, KPH Maritime Radio is the last operational Morse-code radio station in North America…The [volunteer] crew has gotten slightly ...