Stories about Morse code

In the last century, radiotelegraphy was professionally used for long-distance communication by various services: Red Cross, disaster radio, Interpol, emergency radio services, ship radio, and diplomatic services. These were mostly direct radio connections from a transmitting to a receiving station, somewhere between two points on this earth. No complicated, networked node computers were necessary for this. On the other hand, to ensure a reliable radio connection, the most favorable frequency had to be adapted to the prevailing propagation conditions of the ionosphere at any time of day. To make transmission effective, even language-independent, various transmission techniques were applied. So that friends of telegraphy can relive these techniques and applications, a few reports with experiences of telegraphists have been made accessible here. Q-codes, radio abbreviations , and the handling of applied routines on the frequency as well as in telegram transmission, retain their validity for amateur radio on shortwave. Here you can also find historical information about Morse code.