Foundations Of Amateur Radio

Foundations of Amateur Radio Thanks to several high profile races we already know that sending Morse is faster than SMS. Recently I started digging into the underpinnings of Morse code to answer the question, "Can you send Morse faster than binary encoded ASCII?" Both ASCII, the American Standard Code for Information Interchange and Morse are techniques to encode information for electronic transmission. One is built for humans, the other for computers. To answer the question, which is faster, I set out to investigate. I'm using the 2009 ITU or International Telecommunications Union standard Morse for this. Morse is said to be optimised for sending messages in English. In Morse the letter "e", represented by "dit" is the quickest to send, the next is the letter "t", "dah", followed by "i", dit-dit, "a", dit-dah, "n", dah-dit, and "m", dah-dah. The underlying idea is that communication speed is increased by making the most common letter the fastest to send and so-on. Using a computer this is simple to test.