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Gwenda Garde, now aged 102, served in the Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service during World War II translating Japanese morse code. Tim Barlass April 25, 2025 ...

Pigeons have been used to convey messages for thousands of years. (Supplied: Australian War Memorial 051114) As the pigeon spiralled up through the forest, it was shot down by the Japanese. So ...

She had to learn German and international Q codes, three letter codes used in radio communication, as well as being able to understand morse code at 32 words per minute.

Some brand names become the de facto name for the generic product. Xerox, for example. Or Velcro. Teletype was a trademark, but it has come to mean just about any teleprinter communicating with ano… ...

My Father's Secret War: France 1944 is a riveting and true story of an American who joined the British S.O.E. and was parachuted into France with a small team just after D-Day to organize the ...

Where was Morse Code First Used? Morse Code has been used throughout history, primarily in the 19th and early 20th centuries for long-distance communication. It was a really important form of ...

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.

Today morse code messages are being sent from Russian bombers to their control centres, or from ships of the Baltic Fleet to their shore-based headquarters. The shortwave bands used by amateur radio ...

The staccato streams of tones that would be instantly recognizable to a railroad man from more than 150 years ago are still in use by the Russian military in the Ukraine war. Even today, many people ...

Morse code, while being unintelligible to the untrained ear, offers no security in and of itself. Today, even those without training can use software to decipher the contents of a message sent ...