TOT wireless doorbells

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Pyriform Proclaimed from the tallest tower:

ChrisM wrote:
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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


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"Adrian C" wrote in message
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Pyriform wrote:
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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

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?

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

"Mike" wrote in message
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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 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?

If it was the Sauchiehall Street branch in Glasgow - yes ;-)

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!

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On Fri, 30 May 2008 10:10:14 +0100, Adrian C
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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

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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 ;-)

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In message , Doug Paulley
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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!

That's one reason why the spoilsports invented CTSS codes.
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Ian