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Nation's last Morse code station comes back to life on annual 'Night of Nights' (mercurynews.com)
22 points by austinallegro on July 15, 2024 | hide | past | favorite | 7 comments


That's interesting Russia still uses Morse code in the Ukraine war. Quite surprising, in fact, considering all the high tech radio & communication equipment available in the world.


One of the beauties of Morse is that it doesn't require "high tech radio & communication equipment".


Harder to jam?


Hugely tolerant of high noise floors. Even in a noise channel you can hear the beeeeep beep beep beeeeeep in the background. You can still communicate between a cruddy transmitter and poor receiver when few other modes would work.


For example, the noise floor can be a pop song :-)

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-63995293


That key at the bottom of the article looks really cool. McElroy seems to be the manufacturer but I have not been able to locate one with the gold and cool little bird "icon".


I'm pretty sure that's a hand painted customization by the owner.




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