The distress signal CQD originated from the signal CQ, expressing "seeking you," or "all stations." The signal CQ was commonly used among wireless operators -- and land-based telegraphers before them ...

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 ...

The RMS Titanic leaves Belfast, 1912. * Photo: Courtesy of U.S. National Archives and Records Administration * 1904: "CQD" is adopted as the international distress signal for the operators of Marconi ...

WINCHESTER — Tim Angell twists a dial on his thick, black Yaesu radio, and hears a hiss, a crackle and a tone rising and falling like a slide whistle. He twists again, and the radio spits out rapid ...

H. M. S. ST.ANGELO (Lascaris War Rooms) Malta. 1944. Many have talked of the horrors of war. I thought the following would show the other side of the story. I was a Telegraphist in the Royal Navy and ...