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CALVIN WOODWARD, Associated Press Writer
AP Online
07-19-1999
Commercial Use of Morse Code Ends

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Canadian coast guardsman Kevin Layton remembers using Morse code to talk a ship's crew off Hawaii through a medical emergency. Former U.S. radioman Ed Brady recalls dots and dashes coming from a ship that hit ice en route to Denmark until it sank, all hands lost.

``So distinctive,'' Brady says of the distress signal SOS, for generations Morse code's chilling call for help from seafarers. ``It just registers.''

Now it's consigned to a storied past.

Months after the code was ...

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