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- THE SOUTH POLE..........[312] 677-7140
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- ! The Phone Book Volume #1 !
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- ! Typed and Uploaded By The Boca Bandit !
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-
- In this file interesting facts and some tidy tidbits of info about Ma Bell
- which is quite interesting. First off, lets get a phew things straight, The
- Phone Co. cannot trace your call or listen in on your call as a 3rd party
- unless a special court order is given. Once this court order is given and if
- the info produced from this is not of that which was specified on the court
- order, the officials will be prosecuted. To detect if your call is being
- recorded, you can check for a short 1125hz beep every 15-17 seconds while you
- are on-line. To find out if your line is "bugged" you can either dissasemble
- your phone or trace your line back to the "surge protector", this is the green
- box in your neighborhood that has all the people phone lines and check fo a 4x3
- rectagular silver box or check for unusual hookups. Ok now on to better
- things.
-
- Two very spectacular new phone systems have been developed by BTC or Basic
- Telecommunications Corperation that will most likely prove to be the most
- incredible network a fone-freak has ever used. It is called DataVoice and for
- a quick run-down, it will enable you to transmit voice or computerized messages
- to other people on a special frequency and will be transalted and played back
- in voice mode. This can be very handy. The Ultimate phone line has been
- designed by ISDN or Integrated Services Digital Network. The theory behind
- this telcom line of the future is that all communications,voice,data and even
- video, yes video will be sent to your home through sort of an electronic
- pipeline. The features of this wonder line is the following:
-
- 1) Interactive Data and electronic mail
- 2) Security and fire alarms
- 3) Facsimile Transmissions
-
- What all this means is that you will be able to go to a hardware store, buy
- any equipment you need and hook it directly into the pipeline.
-
- Also at the present time in Germany, The Federal Post Office (our equivilent
- of Ma Bell) has installed a system call "Bigfon" This will give subscribers
- unlimited access to such services as Picturephone, Interactive Video and
- videotext, Telex and a variety of radio and television programs. Also by 1988,
- the nifty little gizmo that gives an operator an led readout on an originating
- location when a person-to-person call is placed, will be available to the
- public for a little under 1,000$.
-
- A very neet little gizmo has also been made available to the public called a
- PSE or Psychological Stress Evaluator. The way it works is say for instance
- you call your boss and say, Hey boss i'm sick, he waits about 45 seconds and
- comes back and says, Listen xxx i know you are not sick, if you need the day
- off go ahead! Shocking eh?, well it's true! The military devel- oped this
- wonder system during the Vietnam war and worked the same way as a lie detector
- except the PSE will work over the phone! When it is available you can buy it
- in sizes ranging from a compact cigarette model to a suitcase model all ranging
- in price from a phew hundred $ to a phew grand!
-
- Now for a realy awesome inovation! A company called AirFone Inc. has
- replaced the old Inmarsat to call airplanes and have developed a system that
- you can call direct from and to an airplane! The old Inmarsat system required
- a dialing format like this:
-
- Dial the international access coe+ocean code+7 digit ship #+ the '#' sysmbol
- or 011+871+7 digits ship number + the '#' key.
-
- As you can see this is very complicated and usually takes about a minute to
- complete your call which is also usually fuzzy and staticy. Well the AirFone
- system has developed a new transmit- ting system with the help of the mother of
- course and has made it where you insert your credit card (safe from phreaks!)
- then pick up the phone and dial the # you want just like a normal direct call.
- The rates are as follows. (note: this is for any location in any part of the
- world!)
-
- 7.50$ for the first 3 minutes then 1.25$ for each additional minute.
-
- If you are one of the Millions of americans who own a police scanner you can
- have some phun, you can listen in on police,fire calls, yeah big deal? well
- you can also listen in on r&r operators and bell servicmen, and linemen. Here
- are the frequencies:
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- 151.985 (most common),35.16, 42.16 (mobile), 158.34, 451.175-
- 451.275, 451.3-451.675, 456.175-456.275 (mobile),
- 456.300-456-675 (mobile) 462.475, 462.525, 467.475 (mobile),
- 467.525 (mobile).
-
- Ready for this, you can even eavesdrop on calls that use the conventional
- mobile phone service, try these frequencies:
-
- 158/07-158.49 for mobiles, 152.81-153.03 for base stations.
- All of these frequencies are in Mega-Hertz or Mhz, remember it
- is against the law to divulge the contents of any conversations
- you may hear, but it is ok to listen.
-
- Now for the finally (Courtesy of Tap), for all you people who have heard
- that you can blue box with a TI-99, look no more, here is the way to do it:
-
-
- Here is what The new England Archivist got when he tested:
-
- What he wanted: What he got:
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- 110 110.0 (the lowest possible frequency)
- 697 699.1
- 700 699.1
- 852 853.9
- 900 902.1
- 941 940.0
- 1000 998.7
- 1100 1096.7
- 1200 1202.8
- 1209 1202.8
- 1210 1215.9
- 1300 1300.7
- 1336 1331.6
- 1477 1471.8
- 1500 1491.5
- 1633 1645.0
- 1700 1694.9
- 2000 1997.9
- 2200 2193.4
- 2600 2601.4
- 3200 3995.0
- 44,733 32,286.6 (the highest possible)
-
- These sounds are generated by a call sound routine, the call sound routine
- taked about 32 milliseconds to get going. Since the pulses for a fuzz (red)
- box are as so, we can do the following:
-
- Quarter: 35ms on 35 off 5x. then by leaving a 34ms space between the
- pulses we can execute the following program:.
-
- 10 FOR I=1 TO 5
- 20 CALL SOUND (35,1700,0,2200,0)
- 30 NEXT I
-
- The 35 is the duration in ms, 1700 and 2200 are the mf frequencies and the
- zeros are the volume for each tone. (0 is the loudest, 30 is the quietest).
- For auto-dialing a duration of about 100ms seemed to work well. I could go
- into detail on this and quote The New england Archivist but maybe not much
- interest is shown, if it is write to:
-
- Tap
- Room 603,147 west 42nd street
- New york city,NY 10036
-
- C/O TI 99/4A PROJECT THE NEW ENGLAND ARCHIVIST
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- Here are some cool places to write:
-
- Catalogs:
-
- DAK INDUSTRIES, INC.
- 10845 VANOWEN ST.
- N. HOLLYWOOD ,CA 91605
- 213-984-1559
- 800-423-2636
-
- A good grab bag of gadgets icluding some hi-tech phones and
- accessories.
-
- Products That Think
- One JS&A Plaza
- Chigago, IL 60062
- 312-564-7000
- 800-323-6400
-
- "The Best" place for far out and futuristic phone equipment.
-
- HOLD BUTTON DEVICES:
-
- Tel-mate com. corp.
- 15 Park Row
- New York ,NY 10038
- 212-732-4888
-
- Tone Commander Systems Inc.
- 4320 150th N.E.
- Redmand, Wa 98052
- 206-883-3600
-
-
- PSE SYSTEMS:
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- CCS COMMUNICATIONS CONTROL
- 663 3RD AVE.
- NEW YORK, NY, 10017
-
- 212-697-8140
-
- ALSO CARRIES A FULL RANGE OF WIRE-TAPPING AND PHONE SURVELINGACE
- EQUIPMENT.
-
-
- Well, thats all for this issue, Watch in the next month for the
- Phone Book Volume #2.
-
- This article written on 5/84 with the help of Tap and some
- valuable pamphlets.
-
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