I’m a 42 year veteran of the industry who worked on electromechanical switching 
in the late 70’s, the rest is history. Correct to lower number pulses being 
lower number digits in switching. If your switch is still “rotary” capable you 
can still hookswitch dial complete phone numbers to complete calls.

 

Dave

 

From: VoiceOps <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Jeff Shultz
Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2021 5:51 PM
To: Voiceops.org <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] False 911 calls and old abandoned DID

 

That would be odd....  one of the reasons that big cities in the US got area 
codes like 212 was because it was shorter to dial with fewer pulses needed. 
Hawaii got stuck with 808.... 

 

On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 3:43 PM Pete Mundy <[email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]> > wrote:


So close! But on the PoTS equipment I'm familiar with (others can chime in and 
correct me if I'm wrong on a larger scale) the numbers are reversed

(well for all except 5 :)

Basically it counts down from 10. 1 pulse is digit '9', 4 pulses is digit '6', 
10 pulses is digit '0'.

So do dial 911 you need:

        1 brief loop interruption
        pause
        9 brief loop interruptions
        pause
        9 brief loop interruptions

<wield flame suit>

Pete


> On 22/01/2021, at 12:07 PM, Mike Johnston <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote:
> <snip>
> One interrupt represents the digit "1" being dialed.  Two rapid interrupts 
> represents the digit "2", and so on.  You need to have at least a brief 
> timeout 
> <snip>
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