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  2. Dial tone - Wikipedia

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    Dial tone. A dial tone ( dialling tone in the UK) is a telephony signal sent by a telephone exchange or private branch exchange (PBX) to a terminating device, such as a telephone, when an off-hook condition is detected. It indicates that the exchange is working and is ready to initiate a telephone call. The tone stops when the first dialed ...

  3. Selective calling - Wikipedia

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    Selective calling is used to address a subset of all two-way radios on a single radio frequency channel. Where more than one user is on the same channel (co-channel users), selective calling can address a subset of all receivers or can direct a call to a single radio. Selective calling features fit into two major categories— individual ...

  4. Portal:Telephones/Selected audio - Wikipedia

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    A dial tone (dialling tone in the UK) is a telephony signal sent by a telephone exchange or private branch exchange (PBX) to a terminating device, such as a telephone, when an off-hook condition is detected. It indicates that the exchange is working and is ready to initiate a telephone call. The tone stops when the first dialed digit is recognized.

  5. Busy signal - Wikipedia

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    A busy signal (or busy tone or engaged tone) in telephony is an audible call-progress tone or audible signal to the calling party that indicates failure to complete the requested connection of that particular telephone call . The busy signal has become less common in the past few decades due to the prevalence of call waiting and voicemail .

  6. Continuous Tone-Coded Squelch System - Wikipedia

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    The most common set of supported tones is a set of 39 tones including all tones with Motorola PL codes, except for the tones 8Z, 9Z, and 0Z (zero-Z). The lowest series has adjacent tones that are roughly in the harmonic ratio of 2 0.05 to 1 (≈1.035265), while the other two series have adjacent tones roughly in the ratio of 10 0.015 to 1 (≈1 ...

  7. List of guitar tunings - Wikipedia

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    Some lower tunings may call for a baritone guitar to more easily maintain high string tension and a rich tone. Others can be achieved using a capo and/or a partial capo. Examples. Drop D tuning (listen) Drop DD-A-D-G-B-E Standard tuning but with the 6th string dropped one full step.

  8. Call-progress tone - Wikipedia

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    In telephony, call progress tones are audible tones that provide an indication of the status of a telephone call to the user. The tones are generated by a central office or a private branch exchange (PBX) to the calling party . Telecommunication equipment such as fax machines and modems are designed to recognize certain tones, such as dial tone ...

  9. Reorder tone - Wikipedia

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    The reorder tone, also known as the fast busy tone, or the congestion tone, or all trunks busy ( ATB) tone is an audible call progress tone in the public switched telephone network (PSTN) that is returned to a calling party to indicate that the call cannot be processed through the network. [1]