[BC] Secondary & Tertiary Tone
Fred Morton
radioguy at airmail.net
Wed Feb 18 06:37:34 CST 2009
Mark Gierhart wrote:
> Can't remember the audio frequencies used back then? Wasn't one real high and one real low?
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> Thanks
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> Mark
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> Mark D. Gierhart (KE8MB)
> 'The Gierhart Family Inn'
> http://www.watchtv.net/~markg/
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If you're referring to carts, I believe it was 150 hz and 8 Khz. The low
tone was used primairly for switching the next event, and the high tone
was used as a warning ("it's about to end, get ready to start something
else").
Boy, it's been a long time!
Fred Morton
Houston
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Fred R. Morton, CSRE
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