{"id":61346,"date":"2024-12-11T09:00:38","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T13:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=61346"},"modified":"2024-12-11T07:02:31","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T11:02:31","slug":"the-bbc-world-service-covers-the-morse-code-championships-in-tunisia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/the-bbc-world-service-covers-the-morse-code-championships-in-tunisia\/","title":{"rendered":"The BBC World Service covers the Morse Code championships in Tunisia"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributors David Korchin and Pete Polanyk, who share the following documentary from the BBC World Service<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Morse code: Ready to transmit<\/a><\/h1>\n

The Documentary Podcast<\/strong><\/p>\n

At the world Morse Code championships in Tunisia, competitors must battle to be the fastest and most accurate at sending and receiving Morse code.<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/open.live.bbc.co.uk\/mediaselector\/6\/redir\/version\/2.0\/mediaset\/audio-nondrm-download\/proto\/https\/vpid\/p0k8y5rz.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

Click here to read the full description and listen at the BBC World Service.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributors David Korchin and Pete Polanyk, who share the following documentary from the BBC World Service: Morse code: Ready to transmit The Documentary Podcast At the world Morse Code championships in Tunisia, competitors must battle to be the fastest and most accurate at sending and receiving Morse code. https:\/\/open.live.bbc.co.uk\/mediaselector\/6\/redir\/version\/2.0\/mediaset\/audio-nondrm-download\/proto\/https\/vpid\/p0k8y5rz.mp3 Click […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,43],"tags":[327,88],"class_list":["post-61346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-bbc-world-service","tag-morse-code"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-fXs","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":31040,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/morse-code-safety-shoes-are-a-thing\/","url_meta":{"origin":61346,"position":0},"title":"Morse code safety shoes are a thing…","author":"Thomas","date":"March 7, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributors, Richard Langley and Robert Gulley, who shares this news item from the BBC: Morse code shoes send toe tapping texts at MWC 2018 A pair of smart shoes has been created to let industrial workers keep in touch via toe-typed coded messages. 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