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That's interesting Russia still uses Morse code in the Ukraine war. Quite surprising, in fact, considering all the high tech radio & communication equipment available in the world.
One of the beauties of Morse is that it doesn't require "high tech radio & communication equipment".
Harder to jam?
Hugely tolerant of high noise floors. Even in a noise channel you can hear the beeeeep beep beep beeeeeep in the background. You can still communicate between a cruddy transmitter and poor receiver when few other modes would work.
For example, the noise floor can be a pop song :-)
That key at the bottom of the article looks really cool. McElroy seems to be the manufacturer but I have not been able to locate one with the gold and cool little bird "icon".
I'm pretty sure that's a hand painted customization by the owner.