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Note about Courtesy Beeps

The RLC-3 courtesy beeps are not simply a programmable beep. When it is time to send a courtesy

beep, the RLC-3 decides which ports should receive the courtesy beep, sets the audio routing

variable to those ports (see Appendix A), and calls that port's courtesy beep automatic macro (see

Chapter 8). This makes it possible for you to make your courtesy beep do a lot more than just

beep. If you call command 040 (send One, Two or Three Tone Chord), it will beep. If you call

040 more than once in the courtesy beep macro, it will beep more than once (examples below). If

you call 036 (speak voice message), you will get a voice message for your courtesy beep. If you

call 030, it will send CW. If you call 031, it will send DTMF. If you really want to, you could do

several of the above.

Since most people want a sequence of beeps for their courtesy beep, we will provide some

examples. Note that to get a single-beep courtesy beep, you just call 040 once from the courtesy

beep macro. To get a three tone sequence, you call 040 three times within that macro. Below are

some widely used courtesy beep sequences.

Examples:

All tone frequencies are in hertz. All times are in milliseconds.

Sequence Name Tone 1 Tone 2 Length Pause

1 - Bumble Bee 0330 0000 100mS 0mS

.... 0500 0000 100mS 0mS

.... 0660 0000 100mS 0mS

2 - Yellow Jacket 0330 0000 50mS 0mS

.... 0500 0000 50mS 0mS

.... 0660 0000 50mS 0mS

3 - Shooting Star 0800 0000 100mS 0mS

.... 0800 0000 100mS 0mS

.... 0540 0000 100mS 0mS

4 - Comet 0500 0000 100mS 0mS

.... 0500 0000 100mS 0mS

.... 0750 0000 100mS 0mS

5 - Stardust 0750 0000 120mS 0mS

.... 0880 0000 80mS 0mS

.... 1200 0880 80mS 0mS