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- Phile 1.8 of 1.14
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- By: Pink Panther
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- 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 been dead for quite some time since
- everything 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, and quarter five times. This
- will 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
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-
- 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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