Desr T&P, Did ya~ know the restricted line feature o! many Cen- trex Ins~tiars can be ~ssed7 One may usually call outside by dlelLng ~ for ;~n external dlal tone and then dlaling the nu~nber, provided tbat lt lies in ~e local area. If more than 7 diglts are ~ed a record- log comes on. But this may be bypassed by ~ng 9 then 0 fo~owed immediately by the first digit of the f then complete dialing of the nl~rnber wlthout the area code. When the assistance operator comes on insist tbst you have been hav~ng d'fflculty, reachir~ tbe local number even though you've been ~Rling tbe area code. I~hen you ask her to try the nurnberfor you, bl~ling it to a credit card or the centrex line. This info should be ver~r useful. -JA, ~Y- Dear TAP, Toll restrictors are us~ly used at moteis that ha~e direct dial out type phones. A typical one will say " Dial 8 for loc~ " "Di~ 9 for long distance". When you di~ 8 or 9 you wil1 get another ~1 tone and then you can proceed to dial your own local number. Sorne phones you can clinl info and,lor 800 wiEhout the oper- ator coming on the line but these are rare and on most t~pes, the operator comes on the line and maXes your =11. Ihe toll restrictor will not allow you to dial "19' in order to make your own long dis tance =115. However several of these r~strictors only protect the first and second digits and can be beat in the fo~owing way. .. Dial the one di~it shown on the phone to malce local calls (us~ly 8? ~en dial the first two ~ligits of the exchange you're in plus the digit 1 and you will find a new dial tone and the world at your fingertips. You may di~l d~rect ar~d the motel line is charged for the call, or you may use your ih~rorite box wiChout worry, assuming you ha~e used another name at the regrster. -Sparky- Dear TA P, I am an electronics technic~n by trade and a past em- ployee of Pa Bell and John~y General. I have been a phreak since 1956 when I made my first free call. I~he resistance of the ringers is not the factor meas- ured when friendly test board "bridges" your line. The c~rcult(basi~y)that they use is as follows: You will recogr~ze the circalt as a simple oh~nweter, but why is the voltrneter connected in series7I don't know bot Pa measures current with it. "100 volts of shortt' means a dead short on the line. Zero volts, an In . Phone Building In your home cables ~ 1 1 ~1 ~,~ - - 2650 o 100 volt test _ ~ A lot of misc. junk .47 T voltrneter Pola ritv Reversinq Switch Your Rinaer (DP~r Center Off) open. Now ~e important ~rt, the reversing switch. The testhoardman Dips it back and forth and the bource of the meter(hook an ordinary ohrnmeter to a capacitor and re- verse ~e leads and youtll see the same effec~ lets him estimate the # of ringers. Cruddy ins~ation, tem~rature, and distance from the C. O, affect readings. A key tele- phone may look like 3 ringers, etc Capacitance is most important with the D. C. winding resistance next. At one flip per second, coil inductance is very irnportant, too. As for detecting phones without ringers, Pa Bell can't do ~t. I have 17 telephones and a key systemtI use my own "one bell simulator", 3650ohms and . 47 mid. in series) . You cen safely conn,ect as many ringerless phones as you like. Peace be with you on the ~ndems forever(ica-chirp). -Almon B. Strowge r, CA. - NaTE:Connecting extra extensions is in Issue #1. B.. WE [0TEB ~ BO~6 by MilLon Moritz, Unlted Telephone System I personally vlew tbe red box as a much less dan- gerous item to us than Ihe blue bo~ ~be ba~sls for thiá is as foll~ws; 1. Ihe red box does not work on all F~Y pt~ones. ~e electronlc tones wEich it produces match those of the new "single slot" EuY stations. Older pay phones still use the two internal bells to register t~e coins dropped inLo the phone. 2. Telephone operators are trained the electronlc tones. Our pay stations all produee exactly the same tones. If the red box is slightly out of adJustrnent, the operator will normally recognize the tone as aboormal and report the call for further inqulry or lnvestlgatior~ 3. Each toll call, whether from a residence phone or pay station, is rated and billed by our computer. The amount of money collected from each pay staffon is also reported to data processing and a computer printout com~res the calls billed tr that station against ~e money collected. When a EnY station starts going "short~ we immediately check to sse if thls is electromechanlcal f~ilare, operator error, data processlng problems, lnt- ernal theft, or external theft. Ihieves and cheats are, like the rest of ustour emphasis}, crea~res of habit, and their activities will form a pattern in a faitly brief period of time. '' Secarity Letter is an anti-ripoff newsletter for corp~ orations that is itself a ripoff at $48Jyr., and wb~ at- tended our convention last year without permission to rip us off and report on the convention in TelePhomr Ed. Robert McCrie's latest issue, we're told, rips off part of Ron Rosenbaum's excellent article from the NJilla~e Voice on our second convention. If you happen to be receiving SL, you're wasting your money. The articles are a waste and filled with~stolen)errors. anyway. -TAP. Dear TAP, In a past issue, you told us about Secority Letter, and I sent off for a subscript~on. Why the fuck didn't you people tell me that they also charge $48 a year for a subscription to their 4-page deal tbat comes out every 2 weeks. A little hint about sending tele- grams by phone: I sent ~ne to F.lorida on April 29, and didn't get the bill until September 1. A rlice little thing to Iceep in mind.. . You mentioned this obliquely in one issue, but I thought I'd clarify it. To get a call for a nickel on a fortress phone: insert a n~ckel. You will hear a slight chan~e in the background noise. Hold down the hook switch until you hear a very ~int click in the handset, about a second. Let up the hookswitch, and you ha~re a di~ tone. Unfortunately, the dt~1 Wi~ not be connected, so you have to tap out the nurnber on the hookswitch, which talces practice. -CS, EIOUSTON- Dear Persons, Under the bank Security Act, passed sover~1 years ago, al1 banl~s that handle checking accounts must make photo copies of all cancelled checks and keep mlcrofilm records in ~eir central records dept. Ihese copies can be inspected on demand by Treasury Dept. agents) without any warrants whatsoever. When the Fed snoops get around to harrassing radical liber- ~ria nstindividualist anarchists) then I'll be under strong possiLility that B~g Brother is watohing my financial transactions. Until then, howover, I'm not going to ~ve them a head start over a miniseule 50½ check to YIPL. (I'm not sayinq "I don't care until it hits me"). ACLU, Proxmire and others are fighting the Act, but Ghairman Patrnan of the House Banking committe is tor it and won't hold hearings on it. -RE, NY- NOTE: TAP suggests readers send money orders, whlch need not contain your rea1 narne or address. 1 241 l [_~N