
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


The World Morse Code championships are fiendishly competitive. Contestants from many countries travel to Tunisia, where they face each other across tiny tapping machines in a competition hall silent but for the clicking. It is called High Speed Telegraphy - the skill and art of sending and receiving fast and accurately. The best practice three or four hours a day. Belarusians win almost every time, with stiff competition from Russia and Romania. But maybe this year it will be the Japanese or Kuwaiti competitors.
By BBC World Service4.3
16021,602 ratings
The World Morse Code championships are fiendishly competitive. Contestants from many countries travel to Tunisia, where they face each other across tiny tapping machines in a competition hall silent but for the clicking. It is called High Speed Telegraphy - the skill and art of sending and receiving fast and accurately. The best practice three or four hours a day. Belarusians win almost every time, with stiff competition from Russia and Romania. But maybe this year it will be the Japanese or Kuwaiti competitors.

7,728 Listeners

367 Listeners

1,042 Listeners

5,487 Listeners

950 Listeners

1,872 Listeners

867 Listeners

605 Listeners

726 Listeners

586 Listeners

1,809 Listeners

1,067 Listeners

366 Listeners

588 Listeners

961 Listeners

436 Listeners

419 Listeners

735 Listeners

841 Listeners

987 Listeners

3,183 Listeners

285 Listeners

26 Listeners