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- P A R T Y B O X
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- Created by Greyhawke of TDK
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- Ever wanted three-way calling without having to pay for it? Wanted to
- connect two phone conversations at once, without any static or excess wiring,
- or even having two phone lines? Ever gone beige boxing and wanted to connect
- two operators (or anyone!) but didn't have the necessary stuff with you? The
- party box fixes them all!
- First off, go to your local Radio Shack and pick up the following
- parts:
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- (1) DPDT slide switch (all you need is DPST, but DPDTs are easy to get)
- (2) Modular phone jacks
- (4) Alligator clips
- Some wire (doesn't matter what kind)
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- For the modular jacks, if you get the kind that look like a box with
- the back open, it makes a nice looking party box when you stick them together.
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- Assembly:
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- Take four lengths of wire, and strip the ends about 1/4" on both ends
- of the wire. Connect two wires to the red and green terminals on one phone
- jack, and two wires to the red and green terminals on the other phone jack (so
- you've used all four pieces of wire). Connect to the other ends of each wire a
- red or green alligator clip (down at Radio Shack they sell some nice ones with
- color coded insulator sleeves. Get these, it's REAL important that you know
- the red ends from the green). If you do this right, you'll have a red and
- green aligator clip on each of the two phone jacks, connected to the wires. By
- this time, you should not have any wire end loose; they should all be connected
- to SOMETHING.
- Now, if you've been paying attention and you know your boxes, you'll
- recognize the two pieces of equipment you've just assembled as beige boxes.
- That's all they are, really, is beige boxes.
- Here's what makes those two beige boxes into a single party box. Take
- four more short (like 1.5") lengths of wire, and strip all the ends to about
- 1/4". First connect one side of each wire to a contact on the DPDT or DPST
- switch. Just make sure it's the right switch. For DPST, you won't have a
- problem, but for DPDT, make sure the switch looks like this when the wires are
- connected:
- *-**-* -
- *-**-* -
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- It's doesn't really matter which side you connect the wires to, just
- make sure that at least two of them are in the middle. The wires are connected
- to the terminals surrounded by asteriks (*). Solder each connection carefully
- to make sure it's a good one that won't fall off, and make sure none of the
- wires are touching each other!! If they do you've got a short circuit and the
- box won't work!
- Here's the tricky part. Take the bottom two wires (looking at the DPDT
- switch from the bottom, so it looks like the above picture) and connect each
- one to the red terminal on the phone jacks. One wire to each jack. Then, take
- the top two wires and connect one to the green terminal on each phone jack.
- Again, one wire to each jack. Screw down all the terminals good and tight. If
- you've done this correctly, there should be two wires leading to each red and
- green terminal on the two phone jacks. Set the switch so it's in the off
- position. It's off when only the middle terminals of the switch are covered,
- or so that the switch is on the side where there aren't any wires coming to the
- terminals there. Just make sure it's in the beige mode. Your box is now
- built.
- (This is if you used the jacks I suggested at the top of the file.) To
- make it look pretty, you can cut away a portion of the plastic surrounding one
- of the jacks so that the switch will fit nicely in the place you cut away.
- Also cut away a small half-circle on the bottom of the surrounding plastic to
- feed the wires out of (the ones with the alligator clips, not the ones leading
- to the switch). Once these two things are done, and the switch is screwed down
- securely, tape it all up, super-glue, who cares. It doesn't matter; just so it
- stays together.
- Once all this is done, here's a few things I like to do to make things
- easy. Put a small dot of white paint in the lower part of the switch, so that
- when it's on the paint shows. This is easy to do. Also you might want to know
- which line you're using for each box. Just put a glob of a different colored
- paint on each side of the party box, and put the same color paint on the wires
- leading out of that side of the box.
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- Use:
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- When used in beige box mode (so that the switch is off), the party box
- will operate just like two beige boxes. There are totally, 100% separate from
- each other, and the conversations don't get crossed.
- However, when used in the party box mode, the party box connects both
- lines to each other, essentially connecting all four people to the same line.
- Everyone can hear each other, and there is little or no static created by doing
- this. It's works great for connecting anyone together, and all that's needed
- is each beige box connected to an output device ("Bell Can"), and the switch in
- the party mode position. See a file on beige boxing for detained info on what
- to do while boxing, etc, or how to connect to a Bell Can.
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- Schematic:
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- This is a really easy box, but someone might want a schematic, so
- here's one:
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- <--- to one phone jack to the other phone jack --->
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- --------------------------- __/ -----------------------------
- (red [ring] wire) - __/! - (red [ring] wire)
- ------------------------- O/ !_/ O ---------------------------
- (green [tip] wire) - __/ - (green [tip] wire)
- - O/ O -
- - - - -
- --- ---
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- It's a really bad schematic, but the little things in the middle are
- supposed to represent the switch in the off posistion, and the exclamation
- points just mean it's a DPST switch that doesn't connect the top and the bottom
- termials. The (-) and the (-) are supposed to be the wire.
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- Disclaimer:
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- This file is, of course, only meant for informational purposes, and is
- in no way meant to be used. Any tapping of telephone lines is a federal
- offense, so don't come crying to me if you get busted, because I'm telling you
- not to do it. I'm not responsible for you; you're responsible for you.
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