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- A Magazine for Cyberpunks and Other Hi-Tech Low-Lifes
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- Issue No. 03 December '91
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- 3 Editor's Notes
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- 3 The Reality of Illusions
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- 5 ACTION Roadrunner Switching System (part 2)
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- 9 Anarchy For Sale #3
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- 11 Zapped's 800 Scan 'o' de Month #3
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- 12 Pirate Radio Stations plus more
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- Another lesson in hate from Morpheus.
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- Yes, It is time. A new year for all, another dollar for
- the rich fascists, another GNP report for the President, and
- another lesson in hate from Morpheus. I have sat many nights
- wondering what direction the magazine should take. Although
- we will still keep the same type of articles in our issues,
- the underlining message you will find in this 'zine is one
- that promotes the destruction of fascist corporations/govern-
- ment. The earth is as giving as it is irrate and to survive
- you must find and exploit the terror of truth. We will keep
- producing Digital Murder provided we still receive articles &
- comments from the readers. We will continue to exploit all
- that we oppose as we spread our publication through the
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- Hatred! Anxiety. The sky's gone out. Black and black and
- sick and black. You make me sick and black and black is the
- state of the soul. It will Kill and Consume.
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- Issue four will reach you soon enough. Don't be stupid and
- let the big corporations take you and don't let anyone lead
- you on in ANY way. Question everything and take no pain to
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- Transcribed by Morpheus from Snicker #6 'Zine
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- Break the system! Support the underground media.
- Write 'SMILE'-BOX 3502, Madison, WI 53704 to get
- on the mailing list for Snicker, Smut, and other
- magazines. Only $2.00 an issue.
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- There is a system of interrogatoin known to police forces the
- world over. It is called ''Mr. Hard and Mr. Soft'' and works like
- this. Mr. Hard comes into your cell. He is loud, threatening and
- abusive. Maybe he slaps you around a bit, punches or kicks you.
- Finally he leaves with a threat to 'throw the book' at you. Then in
- comes Mr. Soft. He calms you, offers you a cigarette, sends out for a
- cup of tea or coffee. He listens to your complaint and sympathizes,
- but stresses his own powerlessness to do anything about it. Eventually
- he suggests a conspiracy. If you tell him everything you know, perhaps
- he can prevent Mr. Hard from coming back.
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- In bourgeois democracies, the political roles of Mr. Hard and Mr.
- Soft are played by the parties of the right and the parties of the
- left. The worse the right behaves, the more attractive the left
- appears. This illusion is as dangerous in politics as it is in the
- police cell. When things get out of hand and provoke rebellion, the
- leftists will save capital by pretending to be the opposition.
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- ---Parenti notes in ''U.S. Strategy in the Gulf,'' ''A major problem---
- ---for the U.S. ruling class. . .is the way the American people keep---
- ---drifting off into reality and the way they repeatedly must be---
- ---brought back to face harsh illusions propagated by their rulers---
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- We live in a world of carefully constructed illusion about
- ourselves, each other, about power, authority, justice, and daily life.
- These illusions are both constructed and reflected by education,
- advertising, propaganda, television, newspapers, speeches, elections,
- politics, religion, business transactions, and the courts. They are
- perpetuated by us from the moment we accept this as a valid view of the
- world. We don't have to agree with every detail--in fact, we are
- positively encouraged to argue and take sides over a host of
- prefabricated trifles--we simply have to accept this view of the world;
- to view life from the perspective of Power.
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- Once we accept power's perspective we can be ''safely'' let loose
- in a world filled with people who accept the same perspective.
- That way, by our conversations, relationships, advice, 'common
- sense', and our simplest everyday dealings, we engage in the
- democratic construction of social Illusion.
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- -=-=-=-Open your eyes to all the lies and illusions of the-=-=-=-
- -=-=-=-world. Don't let being a consumer CONSUME YOU! -=-=-=-
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- Most people will tell you that they aren't fooled by advertising
- and they don't believe all they read in the newspapers or see on
- television. We shouldn't cynically dismiss these claims - even though
- we see them continue to uncritically consume the advertised products,
- and watch the television. To do so would be to totally misunderstand
- the nature of propaganda in spectacular society.
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- ''We're putting you safely in here <this cell> so nobody can take
- your freedom from you!''
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- All power preserves itself by the construction of illusions; by
- the perpetration of a massive confidence trick. Violent acts of
- repression by the state are designed to 'make an example' of those who
- dissent. As real as those acts of repression are to the individuals
- and groups who suffer them, in terms of society as a whole is bluff.
- No police force or army in the world could hold down one tenth of its
- population by force alone.
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- In the 'democratic' countries, dissent is managed via the ballot
- box- a system which offers any choice that keeps power intact. If
- you don't like the government, you can vote for an alternative
- government but you can't vote for an alternative TO government.
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- Disection of the Phone Network Pt.2
- ACTION ROADRUNNER Switching System
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- Here is the second part of the ''Disection of the ACTION ROADRUNNER
- Switching System.'' The next issue of Digital Murder will contain the
- third and final part of this article as well as a Glossary for those
- that have been lost for the past two months trying to figure out what
- the hell all of this is.
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- The System may be configured as either a stand-alone, single node
- system or as a multi-node, network system.
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- Single Node System
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- This functional configuration utilizes the intelligent node hardware
- and does not support network operations. System access is provided by
- the coredisent PBX-type system via the tie trunk compliment. Local non-
- PBX connected telephones may access the system via an optional keyset
- adapter subsystem. Public Switched Network circuit access is provided by
- the local operating company.
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- Network System
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- This configuration designates the central intelligent node as Master
- for call history record collection and data base update purposes. Serial
- Bus access racks are employed at each network node to interconnect the
- remotely located serial buses. The network may expand beyond 1024 ports
- throught the use of remote nodes (intelligent), each of which is capable
- of supporting it's own 1024-port compliment. A group of tie lines between
- system nodes permit the network configured system to route traffic between
- nodes instead of routing over the public switched network. Network call
- routing permits calls originating at a distant node and terminating near
- another node, to be routed over the network to the closest node before
- going out onto the public switched network. Because the call originated
- closer to the termination point, the cost of the call is less.
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- Signal flow during either call processing or diagnostics follows the
- same path. Instructions issued by the computer are sent in the form of
- data blocks to a specific address (Terminator Rack) over the serial bus.
- The data block normally contains instructions for one or more ports
- within the addressed terminator rack. The data block is passed along the
- serial bus from SCB card to SCB card to the addressed SCB card which
- accepts the data block. When the entire block has been recieved, the
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- transfered onto the scanner card. The scanner card decodes the addresses
- and instructions contained in the block and issues the instructions, along
- with the appropriate control strobes, to the addressed port between scan
- cycles.
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- During a scan cycle, the Scanner Card addresses each of it's 128
- ports and notes changes in status for transfer to the computer when polled
- or every 100 milliseconds.
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- The serial bus is configured in a loop composed of Serial Bus
- Controller Cards (SCB's) which are located in the cpu chasis and Scanner
- Card cages and incomming cables. The SCB cards are implimented on a
- per-terminator rack basis.
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- The serial bus actually is composed of two identical but discrete
- paths. The individual paths are composed of two cable pairs labeled BIT
- DATA (databus) and DATA HERE (clock bus). The paths are subdivided into
- the input (BDIA or B, DHIA or B) and output (BDOA or B, DHOA or B) on each
- SCB card, implemented in the form of differential recievers for input and
- differential drivers for output.
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- A redundently-configured system has two SCB cards per terminator
- rack. In addition to the SCM card compliment for the Terminator Racks
- are one or two SCB Cards for the TDM Switching Subsystem. The serial bus
- is composed of two cable pairs per bus - one pair for data and one pair
- for the clock. That data on the bus consists of a high- or low-level on
- the data bus concurrent with a transition on the (high or low) on the
- clock bus. When data is being sent, the clock bus transitions indicate
- the bit times of the data bus. The data bus level at the clock bus
- transition (bit time) is taken as a 0 or 1 bit.
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- During system initilization, the computer's SBC Card asserts Master
- to force the other SBC cards (on the local serial bus) to either the A or
- B bus. From that point forward the bus that was initialized by the Master
- will transfer odd-numbered data blocks and the other data bus will
- transfer even-numbered data blocks unless an error occurs forcing the
- resynchronization of the bus. In a Satellite node, the SBA racks SBC
- asserts Master for the local serial bus when instructed by the associated
- SBA card.
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- The Scanner Card montiors and controlls 128 System ports. This card
- writes and reads instructions to the port cards throught the expander via
- the Scanner Bus as if they were memory. With a PROM change, the card can
- also serve as a TDM Scanner. The description following is for a standard
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- When initialized, the on-card micro resets all control lines,
- initilizes the DMA Controller, and waits for an active command from the
- coputer. When activated, the scanner card performs an initial port scan.
- The port status taken in the initial scan is loaded into RAM and used for
- comparison in subsequent scans. The port status of the next scan (every
- 25 ms) is compared to the pervious port scan (in RAM) with any status
- changes noted for transfer to the computer via the serial bus and assoc-
- iated SBC card. The RAM status is updated and changes collected until
- the RAM is full or the 100 ms timer expires. The accumulated status
- changes, in data block form, are then transfered to the computer as
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- The on-card micro initilizes its DMA Controller with the start
- address and byte count minus one of the data block. The DMA controller
- then takes control of the on-card data and address buses and places the
- first byte onto the bus to he SBC card. The micro is idle during all DMA
- Controller operations. The byte is accepted by the DMA controller on the
- SBC card and acknowledged. The process is repeted until the DMA
- controller has counted out and sent all the bytes in the data block,
- at which point 'TERMINAL BLOCK' is sent and an ending sequence is per-
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- The SBC card attempts to send the block three times before setting an
- error statusline to the Scanner card causing the block to be retransfered.
- A sucessful transfer is acknowledged by the computer to the SBC and passed
- on to the scanner. DTMF digits are decoded into 2-of-8 code by a DTMF
- Reciever on a Port card and decoded into binary by the scanner. The
- reverse is true for outdialing.
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- The TDM switching section of the system provids the common point
- where source and destination ports interconnect. The connections are
- controlled by the computer via the serial bus and the TDM controller.
- The TDM subsystem is composed of a buffered bus supplying 128 timeslots
- for each equipped Terminator Rack and a main amplifier in each Terminator
- Rack for each Bufered Bus. As the name implies, the timeslots are
- seperated by sequential timing. In this manner, each port is assigned a
- timeslot within the fixed sequence provided by the Buffered Bus. Since
- all switchports can access all other switchports at all times, the System
- is truly nonblocking. The Main Amplifiers in each rack serve to reamplify
- the output of the connected Buffered Bus.
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- Two types of audio path connections occur in the TDM subsystem-
- transmit and recieve. The transmit function is the least complex since a
- specific port is located in a certain card cage in a Terminator Rack.
- Each Terminator Rack has its own Buffered bus supplying its own 128
- timeslots. A port card is hardwired to a specific TDM port on a specific
- TDM Switchcard. The Buffered Bus in continuously cycling through its 128
- timeslots so that the transmit function of a port is constant at the
- appropriate timeslot.
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- The recieve function is the result of the specific recieve port
- being enabled to listen to the appropriate buffered bus's Main and
- timeslot, permitting the sugnal of the transmit port to be heard by the
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- The arrival of a call is indicated by the VCA connected to the trunk
- with the incoming call setting incoming supervision (IS) to the connected
- port card. The IS status change of the port card is read by the scanner
- card and forwarded to the computer. The computer responds by instructing
- the port card to return seizure acknowledge or outgoing supervision (OS)
- and the TDM Subsystem to supply a tone burst (connect, then disconnect a
- tone generator) and the connect a DTMF Reciever in anticipation of DTMF
- signaling. The call originator recieves the access tone burst and begins
- to dial an authorization code or destination phone number. (If the first
- digit is DTMF, the DTMF reciever will remain connected and decode the
- incoming digits. If the first digit os rotary, the DTMF Reciever will
- drop off and the port card will count the pulses). The incoming digits
- are then decoded or counted and forwarded by the scanner to the computer.
- The computer inserts the completed destination phone number into the
- necessary tables specified by the incoming trunk circuit class of service
- and determines the correct outgoing trunk circuit.
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- An outgoing call is normally placed by the computer in responce to
- an incoming call where the complete destination phone number has been
- recieved and processed to determine the appropriate outgoing trunk. The
- selected port is instructed to set OS to indicate the origination to the
- VCA and serving CO. The CO acknowledges the origination and the VCA
- returns IS as seizure acknowledges in response. The scanner card notices
- the status change (IS) and forwards the status change to the computer.
- The computer responds to IS by issuing instructions to connect a DTMF
- gererator (if classed for DTMF) and forwards the destination phone number
- the the DTMF generator via its scanner to be outdialed. Following the
- last dialed digit, the outgoing port is cut-through to the originating
- port and the call processing function ceases. The scanner monitors the
- port status for a change (on hook) notifies the computer of the
- termination of the call, and performs a call cleanup routine to idle the
- ports used.
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- A network call originates in one node and is routed to its final
- destination via another node. The previously described outgoing call
- sequence also applies here. This description begins where the computer
- has recieved the complete destination phone number. When this occurs the
- phone number is inserted into the appropriate tables to determine the
- most cost-effective network route. The computer then selects and idle
- tie trunk port for the call and forwards the destination phone number
- (and outgoing port number in the Satellite node only) to the originating
- node's SBA Rack, where the date is sent over the data link to the distant
- SBA Rack. The SBA rack in the destination node accepts the data block and
- places it on the local serial bus. The addressed scanner decodes the
- instructions and connects a DTMF generator to the selected outgoing trunk
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- going trunk at the completion of outdialing. The scanner in the desti-
- nation node looks for a status change (call termination) to forward to the
- computer to initiate the call clean-up sequence.
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- Well, I am rather tired of typing out this for now, but be assured, next
- month will be the last. The glossary did not come this time, but will
- be included in the next issue. Once again, I hope that this information
- is useful because, even though it is old, does not mean it's outdated.
- This equipment is still being used, and I would imagine that it is used
- elsewhere. Till next time, I am gone. . .
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- When the price of Freedom is high. . .
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- A n a r c h y F o r S a l e !
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- PHUN WITH AN AIR PUMP - by:Neuron God/DK
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- Tired of that little asshole with the sports car who thinks he's king
- of the world because his car will hit 60 faster than you can count
- that high by tens? Well, letting the air out of his tires will piss
- him off. Screwing up his paint job will piss him off and cost him
- some money. The problem with both of these methods of dealing with
- people like this is that they are noticed immediately. Now, for some
- thing that is not easily noticed without looking and has a great
- effect.
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- Take some sort of air pump and pump the damn tires up till they won't
- hold any more air. Since car tires are very strong, they should get
- really high pressure in them. This works best on the newest tires.
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- Here's three examples of what could happen:
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- 1: He's driving along and the tires warm up. As they warm up, air
- inside expands and the rubber gets softer. With the pressure
- already at about the maximum, the tires will blow out completely,
- possibly all 4, and the driver will not have a good day.
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- 2: The pressure will deform the tires slightly. They will tend to
- round out, therefore, less tire touches the ground. That leads to
- less friction. The stopping times are lengthened, turning sucks,
- and basic control of the vehicle is screwed. Friction is what
- makes the car go too. He'll have a hell of a time getting started
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- don't lose any air (which is unlikely over very long time periods)
- warming weather will cause the same effects as 1 & 2. If this is
- done on a really cold day and then the weather warms up consider-
- ably, it could happen in a day or a week. For this one, the car
- doesn't even have to be going anywhere. All of a sudden the tires
- will reach that last point and then BOOM!! One hell of a problem
- to fix since the weight of the car will bury the drums in an
- asphalt or dirt driveway. If on concrete, he'll probably need a
- new axle.
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- The best time to do this is at night, and with either a hand pump or
- a VERY quiet electric air pump. Be careful though; If you overfill
- the tire it will explode in yer face. You could leave the pump going
- while you are hiding elsewhere until the tire does explode, and if
- it doesn't the tire will get very big and they won't know what to do
- with it. Don't use a pump you'd want to keep for this method...
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- UPC Copying
- ----------- by: Neuron God.
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- Ok... here we go...
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- Get some fingernail polish remover. Put it on a cotton ball and
- spread it LIGHTLY over a UPC code. If it smears, youre screwed. Put
- some masking tape over the UPC code. You should get a copy of this
- code exactly as it appeared on the box. Now all you have to do is
- align the code right and make photocopies of it. Then you can take
- the photocopies, cut them out, and glue them right over the old UPC
- symbols. Since most cashiers just look at the total and change, they
- probably won't notice that things aren't ringing up right. You have
- to glue it really good though, with no wrinkles and the edges must be
- flat. You might even want to try clear tape around the edges. It'll
- take some work and some hiding from the closed circuit tv's, but if
- you can get the symbols fixed, you're pretty much home free.
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- Neuron God/DK
- InFOWOrd
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- CHANGE SALT WATER TO SODA - by: Mystic Blade
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- Items
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- Straw
- Salt Water or Water
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- Coke Machine/Pepsi Machine
- (ones that accept dollar bills)
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- Insert the straw into the CM or PM dollar accepter. Next pour
- the salt water (or ordinary tap water) through straw. Then push
- the Coke/Pepsi button and the change return. You can take a
- mouthful of salt water/tap water and blow it in. * Make sure
- that the straw inserted far enough in to the machine *
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- What will happen is that CM/PM will start giving out change & soda.
- Make sure that both buttons are pressed at the same time!
- What you've done is just shorted it out. A friend of mine tried
- this and said it worked great so enjoy.
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- Oh yeah don't forget to dispose of the straw! Wouldn't want any
- evidence around would we. . . HaHaHa...
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- Digital Murder's Scan 'o' de Month!
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- Scan #3- By: Zapped!
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- This Month's Scan is on the 800-333 prefix.
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- Prefix owned by: M.C.I.
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- (EDITOR'S NOTE to Zapped. The textfile writer you used this time
- sucks. Use whatever you were using for 1 & 2!)
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- VMB's
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- 1-800-333-XXXX
- 0002 - * + EXTENSION
- 0100 - 3 DIGIT BOX
- 0508 - 4 DIGIT BOXES
- 0675 - 3 DIGIT BOX + #
- 0800 - # + 3 DIGIT BOX
- 0825 - # + PASSCODE
- 1103 - * + EXTENSION
- 1525 - 3 DIGIT BOX
- 1725 -
- 2050 - 4 DIGIT ACCESS CODE
- 3100 - AFTER HOURS VOICE MAIL SYSTEM
- 4200 - 1 + EXT (3 DIGIT BOXES)
- 5134 - * + ENTER PASSCODE
- 7945 - * + ENTER PASSCODE
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- PBX, ETC..
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- 1-800-333-XXXX
- 2500
- 3425
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- 1-800-333-XXXX
- 0190
- 0190
- 1210
- 2025
- 4150
- 8205
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- 1-800-333-XXXX
- 0290
- 2175
- 3025
- 6365
- 8215
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- That's it for now, so until I get this next prefix done, go and get
- Zapped!
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- = Pirate Radio And Voice Pagers =
- = December 10, 1991 =
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- by: Chizz
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- This month's main topic is pirate radio, and how to infiltrate the
- privacy of a personal voice pager, using my favorite tool, the scanner.
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- Pirate radio is something that has gained a lot of popularity lately,
- Mostly due to the movie "Pump Up the Volume", starring Christian Slater. That
- movie was not totally inaccurate, but i will try and provide you with a more
- real-life description of pirate radio. First off, the majority of all pirate
- radio cannot be picked up by a normal radio. Although, some pirate stations
- are in the normal radio band, most are higher up in the frequency spectrum.
- So to receive the pirate radio, you must have some type of receiver or
- transceiver that can receive it. If you want something inexpensive, get one
- of those 'World Receivers' that radio shack sells. They can usually pick up
- the stations, if you listen at the right time, and on the right band.
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- Pirate radio stations are usually run by amateur radio operators that have
- decided that they are tired of the normal FCC rules and regulations. Take for
- example, an excerpt from a letter put out by WKND, a pirate station based in
- Pittsburgh.
-
- 'The thought that something had to be done about the state of radio
- has probably been with the "Animal" (The Pirate Radio Station DJ)
- since the late 70's. But it took the shipboard broadcasts of Radio
- Newyork International in late 1987 to give us direction. After
- listening to their tests on 1620 Khz., WKND was born. We put the
- station together throughout the Summer of 1988 and made some tests.
- Our 'official' debut was on Halloween of '88 with a four hour
- "Horror Jam" of music, skits, and ID's. Power was 60 watts on 1620
- only. Even, so the broadcast was widely heard. Early in 1989 we
- began transmitting on shortwave at 6240 KHz, with 25 watts output.
- Even though the stations range was increased, we didn't want to
- abandon 1620 completely, so recently we have been simulcasting on
- both frequencies at once'.
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- ** Taken from a WKND promo sheet. **
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- The Equipment that pirate radio stations run on vary. Someone wishing to
- run their own pirate radio station would need at least the following. An audio
- source (CD Player, Boombox, etc), a transmitter and an antenna. For example;
- the first broadcast of WKND used 290 feet of aluminum wire hoisted in the air
- by helium ballons. Of course if you are power hungry, and want to get your
- signal "Out There", you will need some sort of amplifier. This stuff is not
- cheap, i would say at least $300 for the transmitter, and then you have to
- consider all the other stuff you will need.
-
- As a side note on February 7, 1990 WKND was busted by the FCC and had some
- of their equipment confiscated, and was given a $1000 fine. So as you can see
- the FCC is not one of the biggest fans of pirate radio.
-
- If you would like to listen to pirate radio, or just write for more
- information, the following is a list of some stations, their broadcast
- times, addresses and phone numbers. Since one never knows how long a pirate
- radio station will be around, I cannot guarantee the accuracy of this
- information.
-
- He Man Radio
- 7412 KHz
- P.O. Box 109
- Blue Summit, PA 17214
-
- Radio Free America
- 7415 KHz <- (They say good luck to the feds after them)
- 1-800-555-5555 (??)
-
- Radio Newyork International
- 7435 Khz
- Sunday Night 9pm (Eastern)
- Live call in's (1-800-736-9764)
- Send SASE
- RNI
- 14 Prospect Ave.
- Yonkers, NY 10705
-
- For some information on buying some of the equipment you would need to have your
- own pirate station, request the following publication.
-
- Radio World (Magazine)
- Industrial Marketing Advisory Services, INC.
- 5827 Columbia Pike
- Suite 310
- Falls Church, VA 22041
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- Now on to some more scanning fun. Today voice pagers are not very common,
- but they are still around. You may be able to pick them up occasionly by
- searching on some of the following freq's. The freq's with the asterisk beside
- them are national pagers...(Skypager).
-
- Sample Listing
- 123.000 - 456.000
-
- So you would start the set the scanner at 123.000 and end the scan at 456.000.
- Then you would scan from 123.000 to 456.000.
-
- Start End
- -------------------
- 35.200 35.660
- 152.030 152.570
- 454.025 454.325
- 43.200 43.660
- 152.600 158.700
- 454.350 454.650
- 931.0125 931.3875
- 931.4125 931.6625
- 931.6875 931.9875 *
-
- * National Pagers
-
- Most pagers made today are of the Digital Variety. These pagers feature an
- alphanumeric display of some type. The phone number, and sometimes the name
- and message that is displayed, is transmitted in an encoded radio signal.
- When you pick up one of these pagers, you will hear a strange beeping noise,
- not disimilar to a modem connecting. Anyway until someone makes a decoder
- (or i hear about one that you can order), you will just have to hope for a
- voice pager. Until next month happy scanning.
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- -=-=+=-=-+-=-=+=-=-+-=-=+=-=-
- H e a v e n ' s T r a s h
- -=-=+=-=-+-=-=+=-=-+-=-=+=-=-
- Final Wordz from Morpheus.
-
- 95% of all the work done in this world is done for the
- purpose of creating more work. In other words, work has
- little to do with life. It doesn't create life, nor
- does it celebrate life. Instead, work appropriates
- life, our lives, and we comply, selling off time of our
- lives in exchange for empty things that have no meaning
- other than symbols of living death. WRITE:
-
- Eleutheros Prod. (Workors Resistors League)
- POB 641
- Phoenicia, NY 12464
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- Killer zines for your intellect. . . write theze ppl for
- info about their zines. Theze are independent magz and
- should be supported. (note:theze aren't 'disk' based)
-
- SMILE------------------[Produces zines Snicker and Smut
- PO BOX 3502 [and are $2.00 ea. Cash or money
- Madison, WI 53074 [orders only. No checks. Send money
- [orders to Karen Eliot. Theze
- [magz will bury your mind with
- [ideas. A GREAT read!
-
- MOLE-------------------[info on legalizing marijuana,
- PO BOX 5033 [tons of music reviews, and many
- Herndon, VA 22070 [articles that play heavy on your
- [psyche. Intelligent and
- [humorous. issues $3.00 ea.
-
- Propaganda-------------[Heavy gothic/industrial mag.
- PO BOX 296 [a great read with interviews from
- New Hyde Park, NY [Fields of the Nephilim, Sisters
- 11040 [of Mercy, & Skinny Puppy. write
- [them for current issue prices and
- [info on back issues.
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-
- Currently I am reorganizing my electronic zines. I have
- lost many over the years due to changing computer types,
- losing disks to spilling cans of coke, and the old ''oh
- shit, I'm outta disks. . . well i'll format this and get
- it later'' way of thinking. You can help the electronic
- media by spreading your collection to others! Whether
- your 'zine is 'disk-based' or standard print on paper,
- get in touch with me and i'll give you a free spot that
- will let others know your mag exists and what it's
- about.
-
- If your magazine is disk-based then call the Backdoor
- and upload it to one of our tfile drives. We are more
- than happy to support the other zines out there. I just
- bought another Commodore 64 so I can get into a lot of
- the prg type magz as well. Whether text or program and
- no matter what subjects you deal with, you are vital in
- the information network.
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-
- Here we are at the end of Heaven's Trash (this monthly
- column dedicated to supporting other zines as well as a
- place to throw in my random ponderings) and Digital
- Murder issue #3. We are in the process of adding a
- few support boards to the list. As of now, we dont have
- any other ''official'' support boards but are looking at
- a few that have expressed interest.
-
- Backdoor----(901)/386.6455
- SysOp: Technysis
- Ran on Cbase 3.0 (C64)
-
- Bell Labs---(901)/757.5638
- (IBM) NUP:ORION INDUSTRIES
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- Give this boardz a call. Until next month, so long.
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