[Boatanchors] Letter Q

Al Klase ark at ar88.net
Sat Feb 10 16:34:39 EST 2018


Ron,

I guess I didn't know that specifically, but I do know that Morse laid 
out his code based on a study of letter frequency in English. So Q and Y 
take up 13 bit times, where as frequently used letter like E, I, and T 
are short.

Al

On 2/10/2018 3:45 PM, Ron.K3PID wrote:
> One of the daily feeds that I get always has a cute little factoid. Yesterday’s was”Did you know that Q is the least frequently used letter?” hmmm I guess they didn’t include us hams in that study!
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> Ron K3PID
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