Those figures dwarf the world’s estimated 2.5 million amateur radio operators, most of whom have basic proficiency in Morse code, which can take several months to learn.

In its most basic form, ... But even if constructing a Morse code trainer is beyond your skill set, it’s still cool to know people are still inspired by the nearly 180-year-old system.

Morse code used to be widely used around the globe. ... and writing code in BASIC on a 8088 PC clone to monitor the output of the IC and print text to the screen.

Once you’ve gone through the basics to enable Gboard on your iPhone, pull up the app and tap on the “Languages” option. Tap on “Add language,” and then scroll down until you find Morse code.

It is the end of an era on Fort Huachuca. The last manual Morse code class began on the base, April 27. In the future, the course will be taught by the Air Force on Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas.