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Originally Posted by KesterLester
Regarding receiving of texts -- the plan is that when a text comes in, the text will be internally converted to morse code, and then played out through the bells. It's only a 30min job to implement that -- but my wife won't let me do that until I finish the kitchen fume extractor.
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If she's allowing it at all, I wonder whether she appreciates the implication of receiving bursts of long and short rings of the bells.
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Originally Posted by KesterLester
The GPO 332 dial has only three letters (P,R,S) on the "7" since the Q (and the O) is on the "0". So no extra functionality is needed for S.
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That seems appropriate to use the letter assignments as per the old dials. The absence of "Z" shouldn't be too much of a hardship, even if it may occasionally require a little "creative spelling".
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Originally Posted by KesterLester
Inter word spaces are indicated by "1" (since the 1 key has no letters on it), and a double space "11" indicates end-of-message. I can't send punctuation.
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Sounds good.
As previously mentioned, it has possibilities for sales - at least within the vintage community - if it can be produced at not too exhorbitant a cost.