walterwt wrote: > I'm VERY new to PICs and I don't know much about DTMF, so what I'm > about to say may be very dumb or very enlightening because of my > fresh perspective. If the signal is dependent on amplitude it should > be possible to use a signal gate that would stay off if the > amplitude is below a certain lower threshold and clip off the higher > levels so you either have NO signal or always the same amplitude Walter: That'd be ok if you were only trying to determine the presence or absence of DTMF ("Touch-Tone") tones, but in this case, we're talking about ways to determine WHICH particular tones are being received. -Andy === Andrew Warren - fastfwd@ix.netcom.com === === Fast Forward Engineering - Vista, California === === === === Custodian of the PICLIST Fund -- For more info, see: === === http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/2499/fund.html ===