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- /-/ The Clear Box /-/
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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
- "Post Pay" payphones (fortress fones). Those are the payphones that don't
- 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 don't deposit the money then you can not speak to
- the person on the other end-because your mouth piece gets 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 output 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 receiver 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.
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- 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 doesn't require any special equipment, (for the phone company) This
- payphone will work on any phone line. Usually 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.
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