DTMF: The Evergreen Retro Tech
Electronics For You|January 2023
This article looks at how DTMF technology has evolved over the years, and can still be of use
ANISHA GHOSH, ADITYA MITRA
DTMF: The Evergreen Retro Tech

In the days of analogue telephone communication, the most common type of cable that was used for connectivity was the unshielded twisted pair (UTP). Since it did not have a physical shield to block any interference, the amount of interference was a bit high. However, it was not too noisy and was good enough to transmit voice. But as the days passed and the number of people using telephones increased, the need for an automated telephone exchange increased too. It was in January 1958 that G. Goertzel published a paper called 'An Algorithm for the Evaluation of Finite Trigonometric Series, in the American Mathematical Monthly. This became the basis of dual tone multiple frequency (DTMF) signalling. It allowed us to encode numeric values as superpositions of two co-prime sine waves in such a way that they became noiseresistant.

On November 18, 1963, Bell Systems introduced phones with buttons instead of rotary dials. DTMF assigned a special tone to each button pressed on the telephone device. As a number was dialled, each button that was pressed gave a standard audio signal. The telephone exchange could decode these signals as DTMF to find out what number the user had typed in.

Binary was defined by 'on' and 'off' or '1' and '0'. DTMF technology worked by having the handset generate tones at specific frequencies and playing them over the phone line when a button was pressed on the keypad. It could be treated like a device to switch up to eight appliances. Equipment at the other end of the phone line listened to the specific sounds and decoded them into commands.

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