Sean Kovacs

Sadly, It’s not morse code. It’s just DTMF tones of the guy pressing keys. Morse code contains series of short and long beeps with pauses to indicate letter breaks.

perhaps the tones correspond to the letters on the matching keys to spell something out?

I think it’s 5, 3, 1, 3, 2, 2, 9, #. I used to be pretty good at guessing them too.

my guess: 2 3 5 6 8 8 7 0

Hmm. I thought it sounded kind of like 5, 3, 2, 3, 2, 2, 7, 5.

@ Justin
Ooh, that’s a good guess too. I was just going off of what the other Justin said. LOL.

By the way, what does this mean anyway? Who is it from? I think I’m out of the loop. Haha.

I found some DTMF decoding software and it says that the code is: 8 9 5 6 2 2 7 0

I ran some sound analysis by hand. The DTMF sequence is 89562270 which doesn’t appear to be anything obvious, unless these mean anything:
89-lobar-0 89-job-as-0 89-lob-as-0

sample description in periods:
.677 quiet
.018 8
.701 quiet
.018 9
.722 quiet
.012 5
.707 quiet
.018 6
.682 quiet
.023 2
.716 quiet
.018 2
.702 quiet
.023 7
.695 quiet
.023 0
.954 quiet
hang up
.390 tailer

I found it interesting that the period of the DTMF tones was not uniform but had a standard deviation of 4ms (definitely not morse code). Someone has good rhythm in their number punching. Also, they likely did not use an iPhone since the tone periods are too short.

There are a number of smaller artifacts, such as echo, that might be of interest but I didn’t go CSI on it…

Maybe it was eeny, meeny, miny, moe – GO!

So what’s the deal here? Any word from the “gods” on the approval status?