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- -=-=<* Red and Green boxes revived *>=-=-
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- By: Pink Panther
-
- Probably most of the information I am about to tell you, you probably
- already know or have it stored somewhere. But I have seen quite a lot of
- questions on the subject lately, and thought to explain a couple of things.
-
- Blue boxing has beeverything went to ESS, and the same with black boxing.
- The latest form of boxing is red and green boxing. They both deal with fortress
- phones and can only be used with a fortress phone.
- With a red box, you dial a number at a fortress, insert a nickel, which
- is the ground check, and play the tape. It will emulate coins being dropped
- into the fortress. Since there is also questions on what are and how to get
- these tones, I've created a simple step process:
-
- 1) Obtain a recorder that you can directly hook into a fone line. If you
- use a regular recorder, you will need some modification on it. If you have an
- answering machine, then you have it made.
-
- 2) Find a fortress, and follow the metal pipe (usually metal) from the
- fortress to where ever it ends up. At somepoint on the pipe, there will be a
- small box which is held together by two screws. Unscrew the box.
-
- 3) You now should find two bolts with wires connected to them. The wires
- are 22 gauge (which is fairly thin wire). If you see thicker wires, such as 12
- gauge wires, these are 220 volt AC lines, usually connected to the light in the
- phone booth. Do not touch the AC lines, unless you are stupid. Connect the tape
- recorder to the proper bolts, which means the 22 gauge wire.
-
- 4) Now dial a long distance fone number, and you will get a recordering
- to insert some money. Insert about $6.00 in quarters, then hang up and your
- money will be returned. The tones should have been recorded with a normal tape
- with no dolby.
-
- 5) Obtain a recorder with a built in speaker, or rip apart a phone set
- and obtain the earpiece. If there is a diode across the earpiece, remove it.
- Connect the earpiece to the output of the recorder. (I recommend using an
- earpiece rather than a built in speaker).
-
- 6) To test your tones, dial 0-959-1230 from a fortress, and you should
- get 'Coin Test ... Please Deposit ... .' Play back the tones you recorded and
- if everything goes well, you should hear 'Quarter' everytime a tone is played.
- Remember you only recorded quarter tones. You can record any tones you want by
- inserting different coins at the recording stage. If you are having problems,
- try adjusting the volume.
-
- 7) To use, dial a non-local number, insert a real nickel, and play the
- tones. Make sure you have enough tones on the recorder to complete the call.
-
- Now I will explain a little about what exactly happens when you deposit
- coins. When you deposit a coin, it goes through a series of tests, determining
- what type of coin it is. It will be deposited in various coin slots within the
- fortress itself if everything goes right. But before it is deposited in the
- right slot it will cause a wheel to be turned. A nickel will turn the wheel
- once, a dime twice, a cause a frequency to be generated which is sent to a
- operator or computer. A capacitor is placed across the speech circuit while
- these tones are generated so that the customer does not here them. Here are the
- tones and PPS (pules per second):
-
- Nickel: 1 beep 5-8.5 PPS
- Dime: 2 beeps 5-8.5 PPS
- Quarter: 5 beeps 12-17 PPS
-
-
- A green box allows the caller on the fortress to get his money back. It
- will generate the tones for coin collect, coin return, and ringback. This is
- basically what an operator uses. A green box cannot be used on a fortress, but
- must be used by the called party. An operator release signal must be sent
- before any tones from the green box are sent. This contains of a 2600hz tone
- for 90ms, then 60ms silence, then 2600hz for 900ms. This all must be done
- within the three minute collect period. Anyway, here are the tones:
-
- Ringback: 700hz+1700hz
- Coin Return: 1100hz+1700hz
- Coin Collect: 700hz+1700hz
-
- I hope this has enlighted the few without such knowledge. If you are
- confused, then don't phuck with this stuff, and get out of phreaking.
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