---------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------- ------ HOW TO BUILD AND USE A SILVER BOX ====================================================================== ================================================== ATTENTION: Be sure you know how to solder! This could permanetly damage your phone!!! Read everything before doing anything! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= INGREDIANTS: 1 Blue wire about 1 foot. 1 Gray wire about 1 foot. 1 Brown wire about 1 foot. (Better to overkill....) 1 Single Pole/Double Throw (SPDT) Switch (smallest you can find.) 1 Standard Bell phone. TOOLS: 1 Soldering iron and solder. 1 Flat-tip screwdriver. 1 Very patient person. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 1: Take the casting off your phone by loosening the two screws underneath it. (Don't take the screws all the way off!) 2: Loosen (but don't remove) the screws on the side of the touch- tone keypad, (the ones that attach it to the mounting bracket) and carefully remove it from the mounting bracket. 3: You will notice a plastic cover on the keypad; seperate the two halves and get them out of your way. (Don't destroy them, you will need them later.) 4: Now, llok at the top of the pad (so the 123 row is facing away, and the *0# row is toward you. Turn over the keypad. You should see a mess of wires, gold plated contacts, discrete components, and two large donut shaped black thingies. (These are the coils which make the touch-tone frequencies. All you are going to do is connect the wires that Ma Bell "forgot" to.) 5: Look at the coil at the left (with 5 solder contacts facing you, rather than being perpendicular to you.) count over four contacts from the left (or two contacts from the right) and solder the gray wire to the fourth post from the left. 6: Solder the other end of the wire to the left pole of the SPDT switch. 7: (The point of no return)....take a look at the bottom edge of the keypad. You should see a row of three gold plated contacts (to the right of the two very large capacitors) look at the one on the left and gently seperate the two touching connect ors (they are soldered together with a drop of solder) and spread them apart. 8: Solder the brown wire to the top contact (the one furthest from you), and solder it to the right pole of the SPDT switch. 9: Now, take the blue wire and solder it to the bottom (closest) contact. Solder the other end of this pole to the center of the SPDT switch. 10. Now put your phone back together. (To make it look professional, make a hole in the plastic top of your phone and stick the SPDT switch through it.) Now, (hopefully) when the switch is in the on position you will have a normal phone and when it is in the other position the 3, 6, 9, # keys (which are now the A, B, C, and D keys) will magically produce the Silver Box tones! (See next post for more) =========Next page Yo ho ho....and a bottle of rum! Hackers, Crashers, Crackers, Phreakers, Pirates, Gurus. See??? You can do something with your life!!! ------------------------------------------------------------ -=%>USAGE OF A SILVER BOX<%=- ------------------------------------------------------------ First off, a Silver Box adds the four extra tones that Ma Bell never told you about. They go like this: 1 2 3 A 4 5 6 B 7 8 9 C * 0 # D There used to be many places where you could use Silver Box tones, but now you can only use it in places where Ma Bell hasn't gotten around to replacing their old switchboxes, (4A), or an Autovon. Autovon is a special military phone line, like a ma ss of private lines hooked together (I think, but I'm not sure, heh!). To see if a specific area has the old 4A switchboxes try this test: Call up their directory assistance by using XXX-555-1212, (where XXX is the area code you are checking out. Now hold down the "D" key as soon as you finish dialing. (If you are using the Silver Box that I showed you how to make; switch to Silver Box tones and hold down the "#" key.) The phone will start ringing and the operator will answer. If the operator screams at you to stop pressing your keypad, then hang up and try a different area code. (This one does not work.) If you get a pulse tone th en you got a good line! Now try out different numbers, 6 and 7 usually form a loop line and two people with Silver Boxes can talk. But some of these are watched, so don't say anything you woulnd't want your mother to hear! I have heard that 213 works but is being watched. Try out of the way states like Iowa, Montana, Wyoming, etc..... ----------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------- Brought to you by:DOCTOR MURDOCK - ROR DOC'S NOTE: I have been told that if you are connected via Silver Box on an information (operator) line, and one person hangs up, the remaining person becomes an information operator!! There are a lot of fun things you could do with that!....