Who uses morse code?

What is Morse Code? Is it still used today? Find out who is credited for inventing morse code and the importance of it. read more

Morse Code was used to send messages over long distances. Morse code messages can be sent using light or by pulses. In Samuel Morse's time, the most common way to send a pulse message was via a telegraph. read more

Warships, including those of the U.S. Navy, have long used signal lamps to exchange messages in Morse code. Modern use continues, in part, as a way to communicate while maintaining radio silence. ATIS (Automatic Transmitter Identification System) uses Morse code to identify uplink sources of analog satellite transmissions. read more

International Morse Code, which uses only dits and dahs (eliminating the pause), is used today. Telegraph companies charged based on the length of the message sent. Elaborate commercial codes were developed that encoded common phrases in five-letter groups that were sent as single words. read more