THE SOUTH POLE..........[312] 677-7140 !--------------------------------------------------------------! ! The Phone Book Volume #1 ! ! ! ! Typed and Uploaded By The Boca Bandit ! ! ! !--------------------------------------------------------------! 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: 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: --------------- ------------ 110110.0 (the lowest possible frequency) 697699.1 700699.1 852853.9 900902.1 941940.0 1000998.7 11001096.7 12001202.8 12091202.8 12101215.9 13001300.7 13361331.6 14771471.8 15001491.5 16331645.0 17001694.9 20001997.9 22002193.4 26002601.4 32003995.0 44,73332,286.6 (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 ================================================================ 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: 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. [ The Boca Bandit ]