[sci.electronics] Phone Dial Tones

hb9zz@bernina.ethz.ch (Marco Zollinger) (01/09/91)

I'm devlopping a little databank program for the atari st and need the frequecy
of the dial tones and eventually the waveform.

Thanks to anybody helping me

Ciao --- Rick

jon_sree@world.std.com (Jon Sreekanth) (01/10/91)

In article <1991Jan9.102713.10815@bernina.ethz.ch> hb9zz@bernina.ethz.ch (Marco Zollinger) writes:


   I'm devlopping a little databank program for the atari st and need the frequecy
   of the dial tones and eventually the waveform.

Dial tone is 350Hz and 440Hz sine waves together, at equal amplitudes

(This is the so-called precise dial tone. If you're generating a dial
tone, this is the way to do it. Many chips that detect dial tone simply
look for energy in a broad band of frequencies : for example, the 
Sierra Semi 2400 baud modem looks in 300 - 660 Hz, center 480 Hz)

Regards, 

/ Jon Sreekanth

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tomb@hplsla.HP.COM (Tom Bruhns) (01/11/91)

hb9zz@bernina.ethz.ch (Marco Zollinger) writes:
>I'm devlopping a little databank program for the atari st and need the frequecy
>of the dial tones and eventually the waveform.

There'll probably be lots of replies, but:

        | 1209 | 1336 | 1477 | 1633 |      where the integers are the
-------------------------------------      frequencies in Hertz. 
 697    |  "1" |  "2" |  "3" |  "A" |      Normally one of the two
-------------------------------------      (the high tone? from my
 770    |  "4" |  "5" |  "6" |  "B" |      poor memory) is a bit
-------------------------------------      "hotter" than the other,
 852    |  "7" |  "8" |  "9" |  "C" |      by perhaps a dB.  I'm
-------------------------------------      sure someone will set us
 941    |  "*" |  "0" |  "#" |  "D" |      straight on this if it's
-------------------------------------      wrong ;-)

tad@ssc.UUCP (Tad Cook) (01/14/91)

In article <1991Jan9.102713.10815@bernina.ethz.ch>, hb9zz@bernina.ethz.ch (Marco Zollinger) writes:
> I'm devlopping a little databank program for the atari st and need the frequecy
> of the dial tones and eventually the waveform.
> 

Standard dialtone in North America is 350 plus 440 Hz.

You didn't want the frequencies for standard Dual Tone Multifrequency
tone dials, did you?

Here is the scheme:


          1209hz        1336hz       1477hz

697hz       1             2            3

770hz       4             5            6

852hz       7             8            9

941hz       *             0            #


When dialing a digit one, you get 1209+697 hz.  A digit will put out
the tones for the row and column that it is in.

There is also a fourth column at 1633 hz available, but I am assuming
that this is not for military autovon networks!

Levels should be about -9 to -6dbm (275 to 388 mv) across the line,
with about the levels about the same, or the high frequency a db or two
hotter.


Tad Cook
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