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I went round to a neighbours yesterday to help with his PC. He has one
of those remote wireless (I assume) doorbells. As it happend he was not in, but *his* next door neighbour poked her head out of her front door. Turns out they have one as well. She told me that her bell often sounds when his button is pushed but "not my tune and not his either" she added "sometimes mine sounds with my tune but there is nobody there". Anyone? -- Regards Dave Saville NB Remove nospam. for good email address |
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Dave Saville wrote:
I went round to a neighbours yesterday to help with his PC. He has one of those remote wireless (I assume) doorbells. As it happend he was not in, but *his* next door neighbour poked her head out of her front door. Turns out they have one as well. She told me that her bell often sounds when his button is pushed but "not my tune and not his either" she added "sometimes mine sounds with my tune but there is nobody there". Anyone? Such bells often have different codes and associated tones so you can distinguish between callers to the front door and the tradesman's entrance (for example)... I think a bit of dip switch tweaking is called for (or however it's set up on that model). I've often considered building a high power device which emits a rapid series of all known bell codes so I can conduct drive-by "bellings" in an updated version of the old childhood game... |
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Pyriform wrote:
I've often considered building a high power device which emits a rapid series of all known bell codes so I can conduct drive-by "bellings" in an updated version of the old childhood game... same here ;-) And, as a kid I never got the chance to use a universal remote outside Dixons shop windows to set all the TV volume levels to 11 Some peeps here will have done, I bet ;-) -- Adrian 'Cell Block H' C |
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In message [email protected],
Dave Saville Proclaimed from the tallest tower: I went round to a neighbours yesterday to help with his PC. He has one of those remote wireless (I assume) doorbells. As it happend he was not in, but *his* next door neighbour poked her head out of her front door. Turns out they have one as well. She told me that her bell often sounds when his button is pushed but "not my tune and not his either" she added "sometimes mine sounds with my tune but there is nobody there". Anyone? We have one of those. A couple of times over the last 6 months or so, our doorbell has rung(but not its normal 'tune') at something like 4am. A bleary glance out of the window has shown no-one outside our door, no sign in fact of anyone in the street at all... Spooky!! :-) -- Regards, Chris. (Remove Elvis's shoes to email me) |
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On Fri, 30 May 2008 09:22:59 GMT, "Brian Gaff"
wrote: Be a little bit careful as lots of elderly people have radio remote on off socket switches these days. I can imagine the chaos if all sorts of appliances started to come on and off for no reason. The handsets are coded so that's unlikely. The problem I have with these devices is that they appear to use some sort of capacitive backup in the socket to remember the handset code. These handle a power-cut for a few minutes but following a long power cut all the sockets need to be re-taught their handset code. Nick. |
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Nick Austin wrote:
On Fri, 30 May 2008 09:22:59 GMT, "Brian Gaff" wrote: Be a little bit careful as lots of elderly people have radio remote on off socket switches these days. I can imagine the chaos if all sorts of appliances started to come on and off for no reason. The handsets are coded so that's unlikely. The problem I have with these devices is that they appear to use some sort of capacitive backup in the socket to remember the handset code. These handle a power-cut for a few minutes but following a long power cut all the sockets need to be re-taught their handset code. The older ones I used had switches to set the codes, and the new ones I've started using (from B&Q's "HomeEasy" range) have a registration procedure between transmitters and receivers, the results of which are presumably stored in flash memory. I haven't found them forgetting what to do even after extended periods without power. |
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ChrisM wrote:
In message [email protected], Dave Saville Proclaimed from the tallest tower: I went round to a neighbours yesterday to help with his PC. He has one of those remote wireless (I assume) doorbells. As it happend he was not in, but *his* next door neighbour poked her head out of her front door. Turns out they have one as well. She told me that her bell often sounds when his button is pushed but "not my tune and not his either" she added "sometimes mine sounds with my tune but there is nobody there". Anyone? We have one of those. A couple of times over the last 6 months or so, our doorbell has rung(but not its normal 'tune') at something like 4am. A bleary glance out of the window has shown no-one outside our door, no sign in fact of anyone in the street at all... Spooky!! :-) Probably one of my late night test runs... |
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On 30 May, 08:58, "Pyriform" wrote:
Dave Saville wrote: I went round to a neighbours yesterday to help with his PC. He has one of those remote wireless (I assume) doorbells. As it happend he was not in, but *his* next door neighbour poked her head out of her front door. Turns out they have one as well. She told me that her bell often sounds when his button is pushed but "not my tune and not his either" she added "sometimes mine sounds with my tune but there is nobody there". Anyone? Such bells often have different codes and associated tones so you can distinguish between callers to the front door and the tradesman's entrance (for example)... I think a bit of dip switch tweaking is called for (or however it's set up on that model). I've often considered building a high power device which emits a rapid series of all known bell codes so I can conduct drive-by "bellings" in an updated version of the old childhood game... It would be interesting to see how many Garage doors start flapping up and down too. |
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"Adrian C" wrote in message ... Pyriform wrote: snip And, as a kid I never got the chance to use a universal remote outside Dixons shop windows to set all the TV volume levels to 11 Some peeps here will have done, I bet ;-) Adrian 'Cell Block H' C Better than that, one of the local TV shops about 15 years ago had Astra 1 at 19 east showing Eurosport, etc. in their window at night. At that time some German channels on Astra also showed porn You can guess the rest (with the volume up of course) ;-) Steve Terry |
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On 30 May, 10:36, Jim Mason
wrote: In article , says... Pyriform wrote: I've often considered building a high power device which emits a rapid series of all known bell codes so I can conduct drive-by "bellings" in an updated version of the old childhood game... same here ;-) And, as a kid I never got the chance to use a universal remote outside Dixons shop windows to set all the TV volume levels to 11 Some peeps here will have done, I bet ;-) Not Dixons but I did outside a branch of the old TV rental company Granada :-) At last! It was you was it? |
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In message , ChrisM
writes In message , Pyriform Proclaimed from the tallest tower: ChrisM wrote: In message [email protected], Dave Saville Proclaimed from the tallest tower: I went round to a neighbours yesterday to help with his PC. He has one of those remote wireless (I assume) doorbells. As it happend he was not in, but *his* next door neighbour poked her head out of her front door. Turns out they have one as well. She told me that her bell often sounds when his button is pushed but "not my tune and not his either" she added "sometimes mine sounds with my tune but there is nobody there". Anyone? We have one of those. A couple of times over the last 6 months or so, our doorbell has rung(but not its normal 'tune') at something like 4am. A bleary glance out of the window has shown no-one outside our door, no sign in fact of anyone in the street at all... Spooky!! :-) Probably one of my late night test runs... Actually, I should have said 'no sign of anyone, except for some bloke clutching a box with a big aerial and a bunch of wires sticking out of it, running up the road laughing like a loon... So it could well have been... :-P Maybe a radio amateur driving past in the early hours of the morning, while operating mobile on 70cm? 433MHz is NOT a good choice for those licence-free (and totally unprotected) devices. -- Ian |
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"Mike" wrote in message
... On 30 May, 08:58, "Pyriform" wrote: I've often considered building a high power device which emits a rapid series of all known bell codes so I can conduct drive-by "bellings" in an updated version of the old childhood game... It would be interesting to see how many Garage doors start flapping up and down too. Not mention remotely controlled penile implants. -- Max Demian |
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On Fri, 30 May 2008 08:58:26 +0100, "Pyriform"
wrote: I've often considered building a high power device which emits a rapid series of all known bell codes so I can conduct drive-by "bellings" in an updated version of the old childhood game... I have a set of PMR446 walkie talkies. On a Sunday afternoon, a local motorbike school runs near me, and they've got a one way set; the instructor talks into his helmet PMR446 and the trainees listen. There's no reverse facility. It's quite entertaining on its own sometimes; I overhear things like "not that way, ok stop, you realise you've just gone the wrong way up a one way street?" and similar. But I'm afraid I had much more entertaining fun once by imitating the driver's voice, and interjecting every so often "Turn left at the next junction". Being one way my instructions went to the trainees but not to the instructor - and listening to his apoplexy as they all suddenly went the wrong way was very entertaining! -- http://www.kingqueen.org.uk remove .lartsspammers to reply |
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On Fri, 30 May 2008 10:10:14 +0100, Adrian C
wrote: same here ;-) And, as a kid I never got the chance to use a universal remote outside Dixons shop windows to set all the TV volume levels to 11 Some peeps here will have done, I bet ;-) I have one of these http://stores.ebay.co.uk/SLIFKA-ENTE...mini-TV-remote -- http://www.kingqueen.org.uk remove .lartsspammers to reply |
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Doug Paulley wrote:
Some peeps here will have done, I bet ;-) I have one of these http://stores.ebay.co.uk/SLIFKA-ENTE...mini-TV-remote Oooh, you vandal ;-) -- Adrian C |
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In message , Doug Paulley
writes On Fri, 30 May 2008 08:58:26 +0100, "Pyriform" wrote: I've often considered building a high power device which emits a rapid series of all known bell codes so I can conduct drive-by "bellings" in an updated version of the old childhood game... I have a set of PMR446 walkie talkies. On a Sunday afternoon, a local motorbike school runs near me, and they've got a one way set; the instructor talks into his helmet PMR446 and the trainees listen. There's no reverse facility. It's quite entertaining on its own sometimes; I overhear things like "not that way, ok stop, you realise you've just gone the wrong way up a one way street?" and similar. But I'm afraid I had much more entertaining fun once by imitating the driver's voice, and interjecting every so often "Turn left at the next junction". Being one way my instructions went to the trainees but not to the instructor - and listening to his apoplexy as they all suddenly went the wrong way was very entertaining! That's one reason why the spoilsports invented CTSS codes. -- Ian |
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In message , Doug Paulley
writes On Fri, 30 May 2008 10:10:14 +0100, Adrian C wrote: same here ;-) And, as a kid I never got the chance to use a universal remote outside Dixons shop windows to set all the TV volume levels to 11 Some peeps here will have done, I bet ;-) I have one of these http://stores.ebay.co.uk/SLIFKA-ENTE...mini-TV-remote Is yours the £2.35 one or the £55 one? -- Ian |
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In message , Adrian C
writes Pyriform wrote: I've often considered building a high power device which emits a rapid series of all known bell codes so I can conduct drive-by "bellings" in an updated version of the old childhood game... same here ;-) And, as a kid I never got the chance to use a universal remote outside Dixons shop windows to set all the TV volume levels to 11 Some peeps here will have done, I bet ;-) Adding a line to autoexec.bat on Tandy IBM compatibles to display a picture, ISTR gif2exe was used by those particular miscreants. -- Clint Sharp |
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On 30 May, 20:07, "Max Demian" wrote:
"Mike" wrote in message ... On 30 May, 08:58, "Pyriform" wrote: I've often considered building a high power device which emits a rapid series of all known bell codes so I can conduct drive-by "bellings" in an updated version of the old childhood game... It would be interesting to see how many Garage doors start flapping up and down too. Not mention remotely controlled penile implants. Heh, you've heard that joke too. |
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On Sat, 31 May 2008 09:48:16 +0100, Ian
wrote: Is yours the £2.35 one or the £55 one? the £55 one is for 25 of the £2.35 ones... -- http://www.kingqueen.org.uk remove .lartsspammers to reply |
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On Sat, 31 May 2008 11:31:53 +0100, Mike Henry
wrote: Those are very useful for turning the football off on pub TVs, just before a penalty is taken. The fans are quite happy to see a trashy soap instead, at a critical moment! great innit -- http://www.kingqueen.org.uk remove .lartsspammers to reply |
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On Sat, 31 May 2008 08:28:09 +0100, Ian Jackson
wrote: That's one reason why the spoilsports invented CTSS codes. .... and presumably why many walkie talkies now have CTCSS code identifiers -- http://www.kingqueen.org.uk remove .lartsspammers to reply |
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In message , Doug Paulley
writes On Sat, 31 May 2008 08:28:09 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: That's one reason why the spoilsports invented CTSS codes. ... and presumably why many walkie talkies now have CTCSS code identifiers Didn't stop someone in Bedford totally breaking up a training session sending two riders in opposite directions down a long dual carriage way............ On a serious note, the guys that do this with normal push to transmit operation are not too bad, but the ones that run permanent carrier for maybe an hour at a time are a pain as they jam a channel for that time. I have listened to a few locally and they have no idea of the problems they cause other users. I was listening to the coach at the local rugby ground during a match and he lost comm's with other members of management a couple of times due to the local bike man riding past and blocking the channel. -- Bill |
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In article , Bill
scribeth thus In message , Doug Paulley writes On Sat, 31 May 2008 08:28:09 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: That's one reason why the spoilsports invented CTSS codes. ... and presumably why many walkie talkies now have CTCSS code identifiers Didn't stop someone in Bedford totally breaking up a training session sending two riders in opposite directions down a long dual carriage way............ On a serious note, the guys that do this with normal push to transmit operation are not too bad, but the ones that run permanent carrier for maybe an hour at a time are a pain as they jam a channel for that time. I have listened to a few locally and they have no idea of the problems they cause other users. I was listening to the coach at the local rugby ground during a match and he lost comm's with other members of management a couple of times due to the local bike man riding past and blocking the channel. Such are the limitations of licence exempt equipment.. For everything else theres PMR;)... -- Tony Sayer |
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In message , Clint Sharp
writes In message , Adrian C writes Pyriform wrote: I've often considered building a high power device which emits a rapid series of all known bell codes so I can conduct drive-by "bellings" in an updated version of the old childhood game... same here ;-) And, as a kid I never got the chance to use a universal remote outside Dixons shop windows to set all the TV volume levels to 11 Some peeps here will have done, I bet ;-) Adding a line to autoexec.bat on Tandy IBM compatibles to display a picture, ISTR gif2exe was used by those particular miscreants. In the good old DOS-only days, one Friday night, when everyone had gone home, I honed my skills by adding something to the PC of one of my colleagues (who then knew little about PCs). On boot-up, it progressively filled the screen with the words ******** ******** ******** etc. When full (after about 30 seconds), the screen cleared, and the whole thing started again, ad nauseam. Oh how he laughed on Monday morning. But, eventually, he did forgive me. What did gif2exe do? -- Ian |
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In message , tony sayer
writes Such are the limitations of licence exempt equipment.. Indeed, but there are limitations and then there is damn right rudeness, inconsideration and sheer stupidity.......... For everything else theres PMR;)... -- Bill |
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In article , Bill
scribeth thus In message , tony sayer writes Such are the limitations of licence exempt equipment.. Indeed, but there are limitations and then there is damn right rudeness, inconsideration and sheer stupidity.......... And thats Joe pubic for yer;!.. And Josephine more and more.. For everything else theres PMR;)... -- Tony Sayer |
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"tony sayer" wrote in message ... In article , Bill scribeth thus In message , Doug Paulley writes On Sat, 31 May 2008 08:28:09 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: That's one reason why the spoilsports invented CTSS codes. ... and presumably why many walkie talkies now have CTCSS code identifiers Didn't stop someone in Bedford totally breaking up a training session sending two riders in opposite directions down a long dual carriage way............ On a serious note, the guys that do this with normal push to transmit operation are not too bad, but the ones that run permanent carrier for maybe an hour at a time are a pain as they jam a channel for that time. I have listened to a few locally and they have no idea of the problems they cause other users. I was listening to the coach at the local rugby ground during a match and he lost comm's with other members of management a couple of times due to the local bike man riding past and blocking the channel. Such are the limitations of licence exempt equipment.. For everything else theres PMR;)... Tony Sayer The bike training course in St Albans used to use proper Pye PFXs on 456MHz They shouldn't be using public 446PMR, those that do are putting their riders at unnecessary risk. Steve Terry |
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In message , Steve Terry
writes The bike training course in St Albans used to use proper Pye PFXs on 456MHz Sheesh, I wonder how they got those licensed? I would have thought PFXs well beyond it now. Not to mention the availability of batteries. There again good to see them using their own freq' rather than a shared service. They shouldn't be using public 446PMR, those that do are putting their riders at unnecessary risk. Very much so, firstly accidental interference to themselves from legit users and secondly deliberate jamming from fed up legit users! Nice to see the way threads drift off course, very much OT even for UK.doorbells ????????????? Steve Terry -- Bill |
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"Bill" wrote in message
... In message , Steve Terry writes The bike training course in St Albans used to use proper Pye PFXs on 456MHz Sheesh, I wonder how they got those licensed? I would have thought PFXs well beyond it now. Not to mention the availability of batteries. There again good to see them using their own freq' rather than a shared service. At the Dunstable Downs Amateur radio rally at Stockwood park, Luton, a couple of weeks ago, a dealer had new PFX batteries for sale! But yes PFXs are antiques now. They shouldn't be using public 446PMR, those that do are putting their riders at unnecessary risk. Very much so, firstly accidental interference to themselves from legit users and secondly deliberate jamming from fed up legit users! Ofcom should make them use proper UHF PMR frequencies, obviously some are available. Steve Terry |
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On Fri, 30 May 2008 10:10:14 +0100, Adrian C wrote:
And, as a kid I never got the chance to use a universal remote outside Dixons shop windows to set all the TV volume levels to 11 Some peeps here will have done, I bet ;-) Carver, M. I seem to remember did something very similar. |
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"Dave Saville" wrote in message
news:[email protected] I went round to a neighbours yesterday to help with his PC. He has one of those remote wireless (I assume) doorbells. As it happend he was not in, but *his* next door neighbour poked her head out of her front door. Turns out they have one as well. She told me that her bell often sounds when his button is pushed but "not my tune and not his either" she added "sometimes mine sounds with my tune but there is nobody there". Anyone? -- Regards Dave Saville NB Remove nospam. for good email address Thanks for a timely post. I actually wanted to know about this because I was considering trying to find one with a single bell push but two receivers so I get a ring at the front and the back of the house. I don't think I'll bother unless I can find a nice "more secure" one. Paul DS. |
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Apparently some (Friedland) can be taught to use new codes which sounds like
what the OP's neighbours need to do. Paul DS. "Pyriform" wrote in message ... Dave Saville wrote: I went round to a neighbours yesterday to help with his PC. He has one of those remote wireless (I assume) doorbells. As it happend he was not in, but *his* next door neighbour poked her head out of her front door. Turns out they have one as well. She told me that her bell often sounds when his button is pushed but "not my tune and not his either" she added "sometimes mine sounds with my tune but there is nobody there". Anyone? Such bells often have different codes and associated tones so you can distinguish between callers to the front door and the tradesman's entrance (for example)... I think a bit of dip switch tweaking is called for (or however it's set up on that model). I've often considered building a high power device which emits a rapid series of all known bell codes so I can conduct drive-by "bellings" in an updated version of the old childhood game... |
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In message , Ian Jackson
writes What did gif2exe do? Added a header to gif files to make them executable. -- Clint Sharp |
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In message , Clint Sharp
writes In message , Ian Jackson writes What did gif2exe do? Added a header to gif files to make them executable. OK. Then what happened next? -- Ian |
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In message , Ian Jackson
writes In message , Clint Sharp writes In message , Ian Jackson writes What did gif2exe do? Added a header to gif files to make them executable. OK. Then what happened next? Well, you typed the name of the file you'd just created with gif2exe and then the computer displayed the picture you'd added the header to. -- Clint Sharp |
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