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Weather balloons, Russian "buzzer" stations, and more: 50 things you can listen to with a $30 software defined radio

A tech enthusiast named Blinry took a week-long dive into the world of software defined radio (SDR), discovering the ...
CNET

Morse Code: A fading signal

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 ...
Iowa City Press-Citizen

Ham radio, Morse Code alive and well in North Liberty

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 ...
105.7 The Point

P.O.D. teases upcoming cover in Morse code

P.O.D. is releasing a new cover, but you'll need to do some digging to figure out which song.The "Youth of the Nation" metallers have shared a video seemingly d ...
WGBH

Simply elegant, Morse Code marks 175+ years of use

The first message sent by Morse code’s dots and dashes across a long distance traveled from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore on Friday, May 24, 1844 – 175 years ago. It signaled the first time in human ...
Wane

The dits and dahs of Morse Code in the digital age

In the modern world of smartphones and lightning fast internet, amateur (ham) radio operators still enjoy communicating over the radio by tapping telegraph keys just like the pioneers did in the ...