More than 13,000 Conversos were put on trial during the first 12 years of the Spanish Inquisition. Hoping to eliminate ties between the Jewish community and Conversos, the Jews of Spain were expelled in 1492 ..
A second reason, specifically for using Morse Code during the Second World War, was encoding... Nowadays equipment exists to take an outgoing radio signal and automatically encrypt the data or voices during transmission, this is 'on-line' encryption...
In radio communications, numerous encoding and decoding methods exist, some of which are used only by specialized groups of people (amateur radio operators, for example). The oldest code of all, originally employed in the landline telegraph during the 19th century, is the Morse code. The terms encoding and decoding are often used in reference to the processes of analog-to-digital conversion and digital-to-analog conversion.