SPRINGFIELD - It is perhaps the most readily recognizable Morse code message. Dot-dot-dot, dash-dash-dash, dot-dot-dot. The three dots, dashes and dots mean SOS, or send help. But Samuel F.B ...

What does 'SOS' mean? Many think "SOS" stands for "save our souls" or "save our ship," but it actually doesn't stand for anything. SOS is a Morse Code distress signal.

The term SOS is a Morse code sequence, deliberately introduced by the German government in a 1905 set of radio regulations to stand out from less important telegraph transmissions.

When combined and translated into Morse code, the patterns translates into the following message: SOS D 5 418 As you may know, SOS is common distress signal in Morse code that means save our souls.

Where does the term SOS come from? Unlike WD-40, CVS, and TASER, SOS is not even an acronym: It’s a Morse code sequence, deliberately introduced by the German government in a 1905 set of radio ...

Morse code, a slowly dying language, has become radio’s equivalent of Latin: historically important, but increasingly irrelevant in a world of cell phones, computers and instant messaging.

Morse had converted the alphabet into a system of dots and dashes to send telegraph messages over land lines. European nations revised the code in 1851 and it gained widespread acceptance.

Morse Code will soon be dropped as a requirement for amateur radio operators, a change that has stirred up passions among many hams, as radio amateurs are called.