Alexander Koryagin:

AK> When  you  write  a  Morse  text  you  need  three  sym-
AK> bols -- the third symbol is  needed  to  divide  letters
AK> from each other. It is a ternary code. In binary code it
AK> is not necessary because every byte has 8 bits.

I did not realise it. I thought that decyphering did not re-
quier character separators.  See also:

   Is Morse Code binary, ternary or quinary?
   https://cs.stackexchange.com/questions/39920/is-morse-code-binary-ternary-or-quinary

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