Capt. Roy F. Morse (no relation to Samuel), center, teaches Morse code to Black Air Corps cadets in Tuskegee, Alabama, in 1942. National Archives Although Morse remains the purview of hams ...

Conventional wisdom holds that the best way to learn a new language is immersion: just throw someone into a situation where they have no choice, and they’ll learn by context. Militaries use ...

Morse code is a communication system developed by Samuel Morse, an American inventor, in the late 1830s. The code uses a combination of short and long pulses – dots and dashes, respectively ...

Purists will argue it really isn’t decoding Morse code because it uses one button for a dot and another button for a dash. But that’s no different than an iambic paddle. You’d still want to ...