[geeks] Doorbells

[Phil Stracchino]

Anyone have any ideas how to pick up the signal from a wireless 
doorbell?  I'm sick and tired of having a doorbell we just don't HEAR. 
If I can pick up the signal from the doorbell somehow, I can use it to 
trigger playing something we WILL hear.

It seems it's almost impossible to buy a decent doorbell these days.  On 
the outside, they're all brass and chrome and shiny, but on the inside 
they're all cheap little synthesized shitboxes with about one chip, 
playing maybe-4KHz-bandwidth samples at about 3W through a crappy little 
1.5" speaker.


You know what I *really* want for a doorbell?  I want a T5051 aluminum 
tubular bell, about six feet by about three or four inches or so.  That 
should make a good tone.


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