The CircuitWerkes DTMF-16c is excellent for controlling remote satellite receivers, network switching equipment, repeaters, or virtually any application where local control is inconvienient or impossible. Simply connect the DTMF-16c's bridging input across an audio line and it's outputs will activate whenever a DTMF tone is received. The DTMF-16c is an inexpensive and convenient way to interface many news & satellite services to automation systems. For services using DTMF signals on voice channels, there are two methods of preventing false trips built into the standard DTMF-16c. First, an activation delay prevents falsing by delaying tone detection for an additional fraction of a second, allowing transient & erroneous audio passages to go undetected. The second method is a two-tone sequence mode. A common attention tone is followed by whatever output tone is to be decoded. Both methods are excellent for preventing false trips. The Silencer™ equipped DTMF-16c takes its audio feed directly from your satellite receiver or other source. The audio output of the DTMF-16 feeds program audio to your console or switcher input. The control tones are automatically muted from the audio path. If your program material regularly contains Touch-Tones®, we can custom shift your control tones so that "normal" Touch-Tones pass through without muting. The DTMF-16c's enclosure is all metal and is desk or wall mountable. With an optional rack mount adaptor kit, the RM-01, The DTMF-16c can be mounted in standard 19" racks. The DTMF-16/RM01 is one rack unit tall.