<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">That nails it - Thanks Stuart, I'll sleep better tonight knowing what the original rules were ;)<div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 11:41 AM Stuart Brown <<a href="mailto:stuartbrown2@gmail.com">stuartbrown2@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Robin<div><br></div><div>I found an interesting write up here <a href="https://www.specialtyansweringservice.net/wp-content/uploads/resources_papers/dtmf-tone/Dual-Tone-Multi-Frequency-Signalling.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.specialtyansweringservice.net/wp-content/uploads/resources_papers/dtmf-tone/Dual-Tone-Multi-Frequency-Signalling.pdf</a> (while waiting for a compile to finish)</div><div><br></div><div>Stuart</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 16 Sept 2021 at 10:52, Robin Gilks <<a href="mailto:gb7ipd@gmail.com" target="_blank">gb7ipd@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Greetings all<div><br></div><div>I've used DTMF tones for several projects coding transmitters (usually with sine wave lookup) and receivers (usually with a simple Goertzel decoder) but the actual frequencies I've taken for granted as a part of the spec (ETSI ES 201 235-2).</div><div><br></div><div>My question is, why these frequencies ? apart from being in the speech band for signalling over telephone wires. </div><div><br></div><div>Why 697, 770 etc and why not 700, 777 and so on. Looks like the frequencies are 10.5% apart in each of the low and high ranges and they avoid 50, 60 & 400Hz harmonics (from PSUs) as far as I can see.</div><div><br></div><div>It all looks pretty arbitrary and just happened to be what someone at Bell chose for the original TouchTone system. I'm sure someone in the group could give some historic context to these common beeps we hear in our ears so often !!<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Robin Gilks<div><br></div></div></div></div></div>
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