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- How to
- Build a SILVER BOX
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- ATTENTION:
- BE SURE YOU KNOW HOW TO SOLDER! THIS
- COULD PERMENANTLY DAMAGE YOUR PHONE!!!
- READ EVERYTHING BEFORE DOING ANYTHING!
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- Ingreadients:
- 1 Blue wire about 1 foot.
- 1 Gray wire about 1 foot.
- 1 Brown wire about 1 foot.
- (Better to overkill....)
- 1 Single pole/Double throw
- (SPDT) switch. (Smallest
- you can find.)
- 1 Standard bell phone.
-
- Tools:
- 1 Soldering Iron and Solder.
- 1 flat-tip screwdriver.
- 1 Very patcient person.
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- 1: Take the casing off your phone by
- loosening the two screws
- underneath it. (Don't take the
- screws all the way off!)
- 2: Loosen (But don't remove) the
- screws on the side of the touch-
- tone keypad. (The ones that attach
- it to the mounting bracket.) and
- CAREFULLY remove the keypad from
- the mounting bracket.
- 3: You will notice a plastic cover on
- the keypad; seperate the two
- halves and get the out of your
- way. (Don't destroy them, you will
- need them later.)
- 4: Now, look at the top of the pad
- (so the 123 row is facing away,
- and the *0# row is toward you.
- Turn over the keypad. You should
- see a mass of wires, gold plated
- contacts, discrete components, and
- two large doughnut shaped black
- thingies. (These are the coils hat
- make the touch-tone frequencies.
- All you are going to do is connect
- the wires that Ma Bell "Forgot"
- to.)
- 5: Look at the coil on the left (with
- 5 solder contacts facing you,
- rather than being perpendicular to
- you.) Count over 4 contacts FROM
- the left (or 2 conacts FROM the
- right) and solder the GRAY wire to
- the fourth post FROM the left.
- 6: Solder the other end of the GRAY
- wire to the LEFT pole of the SPDT
- switch.
- 7: (The point of no return)..........
- Take a look at the bottom edge of
- the keypad. You should see a row
- of three gold plated contacts (to
- the right of two very large
- capasitors) look at the one on the
- left and GENTELY seperate the two
- touching connectors (They are
- soldered together with a drop of
- solder) and spread them apart.
- 8: Solder the brown wire to the top
- contact (The one futhest from
- you), and solder it to the RIGHT
- pole of SPDT switch.
- 9: Now, take the blue wire and solder
- it to the bottom (Closest)
- contact. Solder the other end of
- this wire to the CENTER pole of
- SPDT switch.
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- DONE
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- 10: Now put you phone back together.
- (To make it look professonal, make
- a hole in the plastic top of your
- phone and stick the SPDT switch
- through it.
- Now, (Hopefully) when the switch is
- in on position you will have a normal
- phone and when it is in the other
- position the 3, 6, 9, and # keys (Which
- are now the A, B, C, and D keys) will
- magically produce the SILVER BOX TONES!
-
- Have Phun and Happy Phreaking,
- Agrajag
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- Brought to you by:
- AGRAJAG and
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- Bring your towel
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- USING A
- SILVER BOX
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- First off, a silver box adds the
- four extra tones to your phone that
- Ma Bell never told you about. They go
- like this:
-
- 1 2 3 A
- 4 5 6 B
- 7 8 9 C
- * 0 # D
-
- There used to be many places were
- you could use SILVER BOX tones, but
- now you can only use it in places were
- Ma Bell hasn't gotten around to
- replacing here old switchboxes,
- (4A), or on Autovan.
- Autovan is a special military phone
- line, like a mass of private lines
- hooked together (I think, but I'm not
- sure).
- To see if a specific area has the
- old 4A switchboxes try this test:
- Call up there directory assistance by
- using XXX-555-1212, (Where XXX is
- the area code you are check out. Now
- hold down the "D" key as soon as you
- finish dialing. (If you are using the
- SILVER BOX that I showed you how to
- make; Switch to SILVER BOX tones
- and hold down the "#" key.) The phone
- should start ringing and the operator
- will answer.
- If the operator screams at you to
- stop pressing your keypad, then hang
- up and try a diffrent areacode. (This
- one does not work.)
- If you get a pulsing tone the you got
- a good line! Now try out different
- numbers. 6 and 7 usually form a loop
- line and two people with SILVER
- BOXES can talk. But some of these
- are whatched, so DON'T say anything
- you wouldn't want your mother to
- hear!
- I have heard the 213 works but is
- being watched. Try out of the way
- states like Iowa, Monatana, Wyoming,
- ect...
- Have Phun,
- Agrajag
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- Brought to you by:
- Agrajag and
- -=%> The Hitchhikers <%=-
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