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* [[Andre Norton]]'s ''[[Postmarked The Stars]]'' has a settlement cut off by radio jamming call for aid by generating a counter-pulse in a simple on-off code. When the settler asked what code to use, he was told to use something simple...
* [[E. E. "Doc" Smith]]'s ''[[Skylark Series|Skylark]]'' series has a memorable scene where the opening part of a Morse conversation is carried out by firing a machine-gun at a spaceship's armoured hull. Needless to say all the male characters in the vicinity are completely familiar with the code, but the author at least made an attempt to show how slowly the message was sent.
** All the male characters in the vicinity (all three of them) are familiar with Morse because they are experienced test pilots. The female characters ''don't'' understand it because they are a musician and a legal secretary, respectively. Later on, after they've been flying with the crew a while, we see that they ''have'' learned the skills.
* In ''[[Literature/Cheaper By The Dozen|Cheaper By The Dozen]]'', the father decides his children should learn Morse code and paints messages in it on the walls. Most of them translate to [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]s (one of which, "Two maggots were fighting in dead Ernest," his wife makes him paint out because it's not appropriate for the dining room, in code or otherwise). One of the kids remarks on how they won't be satisfied now until they've figured them all out, even though they know the most they're going to get out of it is bad jokes.
* In the ''[[Swallows and Amazons]]'' book ''Winter Holiday'', Dick and Dorothea send signals to the main characters out of curiosity. Not knowing Morse themselves, they're unaware that they're sending out a distress signal. (They do learn Morse later on in the story.)
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