[Boatanchors] Letter Q

[Michael Clarson]

I had an old Stromberg-Carlson phone, (Rotary) with a "Z" on the zero.

On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 9:12 AM, Bill Henderson <bill.henderson at ocdsb.ca> wrote:
> Two letters were traditionally missing from the phone dial and keypads - Q
> and Z .
>
> Same with the keypads on bank machines ("instant tellers")
>
> Even to this day, I sometimes hear voice instructions that say "for Q press
> seven for Z press 9"
>
> The Mitel 5330e on my desk has 4 characters for 7 and 4 characters for 9
>
>  - Bill H. / va3hwa
>
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> On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 8:26 PM, Michael Bittner <mmab at cox.net> wrote:
>
>> Not on my AT&T model 210 pushbutton phone nor on any old dial telephone.
>> Just PRS.  The letter Q is on the 7 button of my cell phone that also has
>> four letters on the 9 button.  Mike
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Bethman" <
>> oldrotorheadsarge at outlook.com>
>> To: <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
>> Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2018 1:03 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Letter Q
>>
>>
>> Take a look at the #7!  It covers * P Q R S * !
>>> Regards, N0DGN
>>>
>>> On 2/10/2018 4:01 PM, Michael Bittner wrote:
>>> And it's missing from the telephone dial.
>>> Mike, W6MAB
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron.K3PID" <ron.k3pid at sbcglobal.net
>>> ><mailto:ron.k3pid at sbcglobal.net>
>>> To: <Boatanchors at mailman.qth.net><mailto:Boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
>>> Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2018 12:45 PM
>>> Subject: [Boatanchors] Letter Q
>>>
>>>
>>> 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!
>>>
>>>
>>> Ron K3PID
>>>
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