Robin Rumbolt WA-ITEM
11 34 Glade Hill Drive
Knoxville TN ,37919
With this two-digit DTMF decoder-a perfect club project-
you hear only calls meant specifically for you.
E arly in t h e p l a n n i n g
stages for the world's
fair amateur radio station,
WA4KFS, i t was decided
that a telephone in the sta-
tion would not be desirable.
After all, we wanted t o dem-
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d's Fair Super Sque
onstrate the ~isefulnessof
radio-and the budget was
t ~ g h t .A telephone seemed
o u t of place. Still, there was
a need for a way t o get
through t o the station's con-
trol operator without forc-
Fig. 7 . Touchtone squelch schematic.
ing him t o monitor a nor-
mally busy repeater. Since
each of the directors o f the
sque.lch was the obvious
answer. The c i r c u i t pre-
sented here is the one that
Tennessee Wireless Associ- we used at the fair.
ation, the station's sponsor,
had touchtoneTM capabil- Description
ities, a t o u c h t o n e ~ p e r a t e d The c i r c u i t in Fig. 1

makes use of the M-947
DTMF decoder f r o m Tel-
tone, of Kirkland, Wash-
ington. The 947 has, on a
single IC, all of the filters,
amplifiers, and tone detec-
tors needed t o detect all
1 6 touchtone digits and
output the corresponding
binarv codes
~ h e s ebinary codes are
then routed t o a CD4514
four-to-sixteen-line decoder
IC which activates a single
output line for each touch-
tone digit. The outputs of
this IC should then be con-
nected t o the proper stages
o f the sequence detector
corresponding to your de-
sired access code.
Also attached t o the 947
decoder are a couple of
gates wired as inverters and
used w i t h a c o u ~ l eof RC
networks t o provide delays
in strobe-line timing needed
t o ensure proper clocking
of the sequence detector.
The CD4027 dual J-K flip-
f l o p IC is used as a se-
quence detector. I n our
case, we needed only a two-
digit sequence. However,
any number of flip-flops
may be wired in series t o
provide sequence codes of
any length. One flip-flop is
needed per digit. A four-
digit sequence detector is
shown in Fig 2
R.esistor- R5 and capaci-
tor C4 form a timer which
resets the detector- about
one second after the first
d ~ g i t of the sequence is
received. In t h ~ sway, not
only must the proper se-
quence be received, but it
also must be received in a
given tlme This guard time
may be adjusted for longer
seqcrences according t o the
formula: Time in seconds=
RCI2, where R is in Ohms
and C is in microfarads
The last stage o f the se-
quence detector is the out-
put latch. Attached t o its
set-and-reset inputs, m o -
mentary push-button
switches S1 and 52 are pro-
vided for local control o f
the squelch. Pressing S1 w i l l
enable the speakel-, while
T O Sl
DIGIT 2, DIGIT 3 l DIGIT 4 1 I
DlGlT I C
1
PIN 4
Fig. 2. Four-digit sequence detector
pressing S2 will disable the could be b u i l t w i t h its out- the o u t p u t latch t o ac-
speaker until the next cor- put feeding the K input of complish this task..
rect sequence is received.
Transistor Q1 is used as a
bufferidriver between the Parts List
output latch and reed relay
Price
RYI Relay RYI is connect-
Designation Description Each Total '
ed in series with the radio's
R1 16 Ohm, % W, 5 % .06 $ .06
speaker leads.
(15 Ohm may be used)
One last comment. Since 500 Ohm, j/4 W
the M-947 is limited t o a potentiometer
maximum power-supply R3 10k Ohm, */4 W, 10%
voltage of 13.5 V, a 12-volt R4 20k Ohm, j/4 W, 5 %
Zener is included t o protect R5 270k Ohm, */4 W, 5 %
the decodel- from power R6, R7 lOOk Ohm, '/4 W, 10%
R8 22k Ohm, */4 W, 10%
supplies with 13.8-volt out-
C l , C2, C4 10-uF electrolytic, 15 volt
puts. Yes, it is that c r ~ t i c a l !
or greater
Construction and .001-uF, 50-volt ceramic
Operation disc
1-uF electrolytic, 15 volt
Our two-digit detector or equivalent
was built on perfboard in a Zener diode, 12 volt,
Bud CU124 diecast minibox. 1 Watt, 1N4742 or
It was then wired into the ac- equivalent
cessory socket of a KDK2025 1N914 or equivalent
Transistor NPN 2N2222,
M K 11 21n transceiver.
2N3904, or equivalent
Before applying power,
*Teltone M-947 DTMF
set your r~g'svolume con-
decoder
trol t o a normal listening
CMOS CD4514, 4-bit
level and then apply power
latch, 4-to-16-line
t o the circuit. The circuit decoder
w i l l always come on in the CMOS CD4011, quad
unsquelched condition. If NAND gate
the opposite is desired, con- CMOS CD4027, dual J-K
nect capacitor C6 across flip-flop
Crystal TV Color Burst,
the off switch, 52, instead
3.579545 MHz
of across S1. Now, using
RY1 12 V dc SPST
another transmitter, send
S1, 52 Push-button momentary
the desired access code t o
SPST (RS 275-1547)
the receiving rig. The speak- .20 .20
MlSC IC socket, 14 pin
er will be enabled after the IC socket, 16 pin .22 .22
last digit o f the access code IC socket, 22 pin .37 .37
is released. The speaker IC socket, 24 pin .38 .38
then will remain enabled Perf board (RS 276-1390) 1.39 1.39
until turned o f f locally with Minibox. Bud CU124 4.40 4.40
the off button. Although no Total $76.17
circuit for turning o f f the
speaker remotely was in- *Available from Teltone Corp., PO Box 657, 10801 120th
c l u d e d in this design, Ave. N.E., Kirkland WA 98033; (206)-827-9626.
another- sequence detector
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