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- Clear Box Plans
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- The clear box is a new device which has just been invented that can be used
- throughout Canada and rural United States. The clear box works on "PostPay"
- payphones (fortress fones). Those are the payphones that dont require payment
- until after the connection is established. You pick up the fone, get
- a dial tone, dial your number, and then insert your money after the person
- answers.If you dont deposit the money then you can not speak to the person on
- the other end- because your mouth peice is cut off, but, not the ear piece.
- (obviously these phones are nice for free calls to weather or time or
- other such recordings).All you must do is to go to your nearby Radio Shack, or
- electronics store,and get a four-transistor amplifier and a
- telephone suction cup induction pick-up. The induction pick-up would be
- hooked up as it normally would to record a conversation, except that it
- would be plugged into the out-
- put of the amplifier and a microphone would be hooked to the input. So when
- the party that is being called answers, the caller could speak through the
- little microphone instead. His voice then goes through the amplifier and out
- the induction coil, and into the back of the reciever where it would then be
- broadcast through the phone lines and the other party would be able to hear
- the caller. The Clear Box thus 'clears up' the problem of not being heard.
- Luckily, the line will not be cut-off after a certain amount of time because
- it will wait forever for the coins to be put in.The biggest advantage for all
- of us about this new clear box is the
- fact that this type of payphone will most likely become very common.
- Due to a few things: 1st, it is a cheap way of getting the DTF,dial-tone-first
- service, 2nd, it doesnt require any special equipment, (for the phone
- company)This payphone will work on any phone line. Ususally a payphone line is
- different, but this is a regular phone line and it is set up so the phone
- does all the charging, not the company.