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to: Miles Maxted
from: Michiel van der Vlist
date: 2004-01-27 15:31:00
subject: UV Index Details ?

Hello Miles,

 >  MvV> Interesting. So where was the zero located? I guess> next to
 >  MvV> the 1, so that just as it does here it actually generates
 >  MvV> 10 pulses.
 >
 > I went and dug out an old dialler phone, and you're right - it
 > runs clock-wise 0-9 with the 0 at 6 o'clock.

Ah how good is it to observe some facts, forward a theory, predict
something from it and see it confirmed. Ain't that science?

 > The P&T supplied all phones in NZ,  and when people started
 > sneaking in foreign devices they had to subtract each digit
 > of the required phone number from 10 before dialling the inverted
 > number.

;-)

I trust the tones that you use nowadays are the standard DTMF tones?

Cheers, Michiel

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