<div>Usually that code is the # at the first of the sequence of DTMF. I would hope the HT's would be tolerant of a leading # when they are displaying messages.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Gregg Wonderly <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gregg@wonderly.org">gregg@wonderly.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="Ih2E3d">Brian Webster wrote:<br>> He keys up the repeater and makes a quick voice announcement of the<br>> situation, and requests the emergency net to go into session. He then<br>> informs the net that he'll be sending a short DTMF tone sequence. He keys in<br>
> a short sequence 4,1,8,9,1,1. The TextGateway software detects this sequence<br>> and sends the following "canned" e-mail to all his volunteers' e-mail<br>> addresses and several of their SMS/Text message e-mail addresses:<br>
<br></div>There are some repeaters with DTMF muting activated which makes this difficult<br>to do without some agreement on using any appropriate codes to deactivate muting.<br><br>But usually, this sort of thing can happen, just an issue for the casual,<br>
enthralled potential new user to be aware of.<br><font color="#888888"><br>Gregg Wonderly<br>W5GGW<br></font>
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