I need a real simple method to solve this problem.

How to extend the transmission time of a wireless doorbell transmitter,
from 1/2 second to 1 second.

My house was built with a doorbell in the front hall. Because I always
listen to the radio or tv, I could not hear the bell in the basement or
the second floor. I put a second bell in the basement, and for the
second floor, I put the push-button transmitter for a third (wireless)
bell (buzzer) next to the doorbell transformer on the basement ceiling.

For the little 1" x 3" transmitter, I bypassed the pushbutton switch so
it's always closed, and in place of the battery, I gave it the rectified
output of the doorbell transformer, but only when someone presses the
outside doorbell button.

If they hold the button for about a second or more, the buzzer in the
2nd floor hall buzzes, and if I'm on the second floor, I always hear it.

If they let go more quickly, it doesn't buzz.

Maybe I could use the 9 to 12 volts pulsating DC that goes to the
transmitter to charge a capacitor, which would then power the
transmitter for another second, to make sure the buzzer upstairs buzzes.
Any chance that would work? If not, some other simple idea?

Is there a slow release front-door doorbell button?


Last Thursday FEDEX "delivered" an envelope from a bank, but just left
it on the stoop, tilted so anyone on the public sidewalk could see its
bright red and blue colors and take it. No money inside, but still. I
didn't know it was coming and wouldn't know it was missing. I've
talked to 2 people at FEDEX and neither will say if Fedex has a position
on putting their envelopes in my door slot. The USPS doesn't object
to non-mail being put in mail slots.

I also didn't hear the doorbell, but I don't know if he pushed the
button quickly or not at all.

A few months ago I was sitting in the kitchen, 10 feet from the door and
the doorbell, (and I think it was Fedex) and he neither rang the bell
(the first floor bell is instantaneous) or knocked louder than a little
child might knock. That time the package was too big for the slot, and
he left it and I don't object to that part.