Telephone Tones

A source of innocent merriment!

(W.S. Gilbert)

Dual Tone Multi Frequency

DTMF tones are used for ``dialling'' a number. Each digit is signalled by a 100ms burst of f1+f2 Hz, followed by 100ms silence. Some equipment will accept shorter pulse durations, or shorter silent durations, but this is not recommended.

The frequencies f1, f2 are given by the following table.

  1209 1336 1477 1633
697 1 2 3 A
770 4 5 6 B
852 7 8 9 C
941 * 0 # D

E.g. digit `5' is signalled by 770+1336 Hz.

Enter a string of digits from the set { 0-9, *, #, A-D } in the space below for a sample.


Tony Fisher / fisher@minster.york.ac.uk