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- - P.I.S.S. Philez Number 49 =
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- - The Train Box =
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- - by Skrike =
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- I take no credit for the ideas shared in this article, someone may
- have discovered this a long time ago, I think it is interesting and I
- am passing it on to the reader.
-
- On regular occasions, my FLB (free loading bastards) boyz and
- I make regular raids on DI. We usually do this late at night after
- closing hours. DI is a good place to find stuff because they have it
- set up for people to drive around back and drop off donations. I'm not
- proud of this, but hey when your a poor college student you gotta live
- somehow. Anyway, when I was there a couple weeks ago, someone had
- dropped off this train set, so I ripped the electrical motor off it so
- I could use the wires for another project I was working on. Well its
- been sitting in my apartment ever since, until the other night....
-
- I was making a new beige box to use for that evening, and I
- unscrewed the phone jack from the wall, and pulled the wires out to
- test it. I hooked it up and it worked fine, except for the fact that
- my roomate was on the phone, as he always is, talking to some anal
- retentive chick about some stupid subject, and she probably doesn't
- like him anyway. I lead an interesting life as you can tell. Well, as
- I was playing with the wires, I noticed the train switch sitting there.
- So I plugged it in, turned the voltage up and connected the phone wires
- with the electrically charged wires. Almost immediately I heard my
- roomate screaming in the next room, "Hello, Hello?" I laughed for a
- while and did it again, until he got off the phone. I thought this was
- very cool.
-
- The fluctuation of the current (electromagnetic waves) on the
- telephone line is what carries the voice. When you attatch a battery
- or other electrical source to it you're disturbing the flow that is
- already present, causing mass fluctuations, which is the static.
-
- While thinking about potential uses for this, I thought it's
- not very convienient to carry around a little generator in my pocket,
- find an outlet and exposed phone lines everytime I wanna kick someone
- off the phone. It works great for my purposes. But it got me thinking
- along the same lines as a busy box. A busy box basically makes it so
- when a person picks up their phone they do not get a dial tone, and
- people cannot call them. Its very inconvienient, and very easy to
- accomplish. But if a person could connect, say a 9 volt battery
- (im not sure if this is enough voltage or not) to someones external
- telephone wires, hypothetically, everytime they picked up the phone,
- they would hear static. And if someone tried to call them, if the
- voltage was low enough not to affect the incoming call status, it would
- ring, but when the person answered, all they would hear would be static.
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- A normal person would have no idea why this static was occuring,
- and would probably need to use a neighbors phone to call the phone
- comapny. Unlike the busy box the telephone company, probably would be
- able to see tell that the line is having trouble. The telco company's
- switch can measure the voltage, current and resistance of any telephone
- line atatched to it. If a switch detects abnormalities, it will mark
- the line as having trouble. So a telco may or may not contact the person
- before they do. Not having tested this yet, I have no idea how long this
- "static" will continue, before being detected. It will be interesting to
- see, if the 9 volt battery will work, and supply enough voltage to a
- line to create a disturbance. Someone try and e-mail me with their
- results. Make sure you form a complete circuit. By attaching the wires
- from the positive terminal of the battery to the green wire (tip) and
- from the negative terminal to the red wire (ring). If a 9 volt battery
- doesnt work, try to get something with a liitle more voltage and that
- should do the trick.
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- skrike@ida.net
- http://compound.dyn.ml.org/skrike
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