TAP No. 29 - Improved Bluebox & Snooplite, Int'l Codes

Issue 29 a we ws AP Oct,1975 A lack of staff has prevented the newsletter from being published as often as we would have liked. However, we are attempting to remedy this situation by opening a New York office where prospective volunteers can help to put out the newsletter. In addition, readers can come in to ask questions, donate articles and information, obtain subscriptions and back issues without using the mails, and meet other readers. Due to the sensitive nature of our pub- lication, we must insist that no materials of an illegal na- ture accompany you when you visit us. Until further no- Bee the office will only be open at the hours and days listed low. Address: 1201 Broadway (Between 28th and 29th Street) Room 608 , W2 MAY ary 3 ~ 8 te Fd Many readers have difficulty obtaining parts for our projects in TAP, Most parts can be obtained from mail- order companies such as those below. To read their cat- alogs is an education in itself. Babylon Electronics, P.O, Box J, Carmichael, Ca, 95608 B&F Enterprises, P. 0, Box 44, Hathorne, Mass, 01937 (617)532-2323 Burstein-Applebee, 3199 Mercier, Kansas City, Mo. 64111 (816) 531-5614 Digi-Key, P.O. Box 126, Thief River Falls, Minn. 56701 3. Knapp Co. , 3174 8th Ave. ,8, W., Largo, Fla. 33540 (813)564-0034 Paliyette ectronies, 11iJericho ‘Tpke. , Syosset, N. Y. 11791 (516)921-7700 PolyPaks, P. 0. Box 942, South Lynnfield, Mass, 01940(617) 245-3829 Solid State Systems, P. 0. Box 773, Columbia, Mo. 66201 (314)443-3673 ‘TAP has courses on Basic Electricity that are easily understood, no matter how little knowledge of Electronics you already have. You learn by building useful projects and experiments such as those in TAP. In fact, you should be able to build any project in TAP after 6 courses, which are 50¢ each (free if you can't afford it), 4 courses are avail- able now, A~Basic Electricity, B-Alternating current, C-Basic Phones, and D-Amplifiers, with more coming soon. We urge you to.send for them if you want a quick education in electronics. YOU CAN HELP TAP Ifyou can contribute any information that you think other readers would be interested in, please do so. TAP readers are the main source of our information. You can help by meeting employees of phone and power companies, alarm places, etc., and asking them about questions other people raise in tho newsletter, Be sure to get details and malntain contact in case you have additional questions. Most empl- yees of those companies would be glad to screw their boss and they'd probably be Interested in TAP, too. We hope that a lot of you will gather information so we know what the scene 1s around the country and Canada. ‘We also need tnfo on the following: wa-With info about where they're nec essary. Vending Machines-Locks, getting stuff, ete. ‘Locks: New code books, picking Medeco, Sargent Keso, Fadio”Soliog up your own Station, 8! toga up own Station, Schematics, Suilljammers, etc, larms-Holmes and other central station alarms, bypassing, electronic keys and picking, etc. Also, Macnets, Overzeas Phronking, and Chemistry, ADVANCED BLUE BOX This circuit was sent in by a reader and we've checked it out to find that it's beautifully stable with voltage and temperature (assuming the capacitor .022 is stable). The 8038 circuit in issue #26 is very convenient but it requires @ voltage regulator IC. This circuit does not. It uses a 555 timer, which, used in the free-running mode generates a Square wave, which is ok for two reasons: First, the phone line, earpiece and telephone mouthpiece you're using can't reproduce a square wave so it's shaped somewhat into a Sine wave, and secondly this circuit makes up for it's wave- shape by its excellent frequency stability. It needs double- pole buttons , admittedly a hassle to obtain, however it of course needs no diode matrix. Current drain is under 20 ma. for two 555s. ‘Sut, “Bev. 123 = et. ae sts ce > From * other ook . 555 * Hi 15 ve . 3.3 3.3K = j } i i to other To telephone earpiece LM555 Approximate value for Ry (Use trimmers) Hz R 700 42k “For example: 700 Hz- use 50k trimmer 900 35k pot, 10 or 20 turns, or else use a 1100 28k single turn 5k or 10k pot in series 1300 24k with a resistor, so that the center of 1500 22k the po(1/2 the value) plus the resis- 1700 18k tor equals 42k, Thus a 10k pot at its 2600 12k center is 5k, plus 37k =42k, Build two duplicate circuits, connect outputs, ground, and power. Can drive a telephone earpiece strongly. Remove the varistor dual-diode on the earpiece "before using. © Youth Hot Line Reports, Inc. 1975 Movement groups may reprint without permission with TAP's address included, and please send us a copy of reprinted work. WARNING: We will prosecute violators. Letters Frem Readers Dear TAB, ff bh aE Sit ba A’ modified Starrett 829B smail hole gage- available from most machinist supply companies- is an effective key for the Rollersmith lock(See issue #26 and #23). Accept no subStitutes-General makes a Similar tool but it is of. lower quality and may require a special order. The gage is hardened steel, so you'll have to use a small bench grinder, not a file, to reduce the diameter of the ball halves and cone to about . 150" (That's one hundred and . fifty-thousands of an inch) unscrewed. Finish grinding by band on a bench stone until it just enters the hole. Insert all the way, tighten, and retract it, and Voilal The lock is opened. ‘The gage costs about $7 and can be sold at a nice profit. Be sure to grind the manufacturer's name and number off the gage to insure its anonymity. Mr. Phelps Advisable Missions Force Ee ee Note: Grind with gage unscrewed. (Titer Grinding | a Dear TAP, A good way to nail those anti-phone phreak manufacture: s is togo to a pay phone and call one up. It is not neces- sary to pay, instead, simply call the operator and tell her that you just dialed a wrong number. In most cases, if you are convincing, she will connect you. When the company answers, have nice long talk about how good you think their device is to protect life, limb and property. Sound sincere, and stay on for as long as possible or until an operator comes on, Almost always, after using the 'wrong number! approach, the operator will forget about you, and by the time she remembers, you will already have run up a huge bill (staying on for an hour across country will come to over $20), When you think you must, hang up, making sure you have left no clue to your identity. The operator will call back, and ask you to deposit an amount equal to GM's — TJ +160") TRIVIA Hee yearly sales. By this time, you will be long gone, So guess who gets stuck with the bill? That's right, the good old manufacturer! ~~” a . . NEW JERSEY Dear TAP, . ‘Wisconsin Telephone Newsline is a pretty typical Telco newsline, except they have a mania for phone phreaks. The always bave the latest on busts across the country, as well as up-tight references to publications they think are out to subvert them. (414) 678-3511. Unfortunately, it is souped and you get charged if calling from outside 414 area. The info is almost worth it. Milwaukee Ring-back- 971, wait for tone, dial 6 and hang up. Loop suffix for 414 area is XXX-0010 &0011. They've been closed for a year but someone gets sloppy once in a while. ‘There's a magazine called Amateur Radio 73. It's a ham magazine supposedly published in the Northeast and distrib- uted by ham dealers, The June 1975 issue has an article entitled "Inside Ma Bell" which (according to Wis. Telco newsline) gives "precise technical details on blue box con- struction, " I've searched for a copy but they were gone quick. You may have better luck in a library. Incidentally Pacific NW Bell is sueing the magazine for $100, 000 for distributing it in their areal Freedom of the Press? Shit. I “have heard" that some criminally insane persons buy coin folders made for coin collectors and use the quarter and dime size cardboard discs in these as slugs. Seems these cardboard discs work in the "slide-in" type coin acceptors used in Laundromats and on small vending mach- ines. Apparently they even work in the "slide-in" acceptors that have magnets to reject metal slugs. Although these people have to hunt around for the "wood-grain" type fol- ders with the cardboard discs still in them, that doesn't seem to deter them. INDIANA Dear TAP, Shown below is a rotating disc flowmeter. This is the type used in gas pumps, fuel oil meters and to measure water used in your house. It is usually found under a round steel plate that says "water" which is located in your yard or in the street, etc, It is held together with 6 or 8 bolts around its circumference. When these bolts are removed BACK ISSUES- 50¢ each FACT SHEETS ~25¢ each 1-Extensions, Conference Switches 1, Credit Card Calling Hints hold tite 2-Bilue Box Story and Abbie on Ripoffs 2, Receiving Long Distance Calis Free. Phone Line 3-Telecommand Story (Same as Issue 11 for General Telephone Co. “* . Red 7 4-Pay Phone Issue Customers instead of Bell Telephone Co.) 5-Hlue Box 1 06 0L6TE Displayed Red Box > Re 6-Blue Box 2— jOLETE.. 2600 Whistle Periectar>> 19¢ each 7-Tuning your Organ + Dual tone oscillator. RL To Pt 8-Credit Card Calls/1972 Code Anti-Bell Button-50¢ 10/$3 9-Super Duper Project (Issue 11) BOOKS 10- Same as 9 (obsolete) . 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Want to abolish| 19-Snoop Light US First Class-Add $1. 50 (Total 3. 50) the right to do whatever 20-Cheese Box Envelope) or fraud against any oth 21-Automatic Phone Tap @ political party that fet 22-Answeroo Send Check or Money order only to TAP ertarian Party ani has 23-Free Electricity 24-Fraud Detectors, Index, 1974 Code 25-New Red Box/Free Gas 26-New Blue Box 27-Free Electricity 22-Computer Bills Address: Room 504, 152 W. 42 St., N.Y.,N.Y. (his is a Mail Drop only) Each Course 50¢ A-Basic Electricity B-Alternating Current D-Amplifiers members may seem mc but they're "the only ga Kearny St., San Franci about them in TAP. 10036 C-Basic Phones everything in the meter can be removed. This is a positive displacement meter which means for every cycle or revo- lution of the disc a fixed amount of water is transferred and registered on the dial. The fixed amount of water is trapped in a sealed fixed space and carried thru the meter by movement of the disc. Tell your readers that it is il- legal to do this but if you were to shave or grind off 1/8" off the outside circumference of the disc and then put it back in, a large amount of water will pass through without registering on the dial. This results in a large savings on DIAL DISC Sectional view of typies! nutating pltton meter. water bills, ‘Remember that failure to put the disc back in will result in no water registering and the meter reader will get suspicious unless you tell him that you've stopped taking baths, Please print my article cause I always wanted to get something published. Yours, BALTIMORE basic snoop tite Red 9-—_______________-» Red Phone L1 To Phone Line Green ch Green 4 music on hold vi ‘CORRECTED SNOOP LITE on ‘The Snoop Light article in issue #19 listed incorrect values for the bulb and capacitor, The bulb is a #48 screw base or @ #49 bayonet base, both 2 volts and 60 ma. The capacitor is a 500 mf. at 15 volts. The complete circuit operation is as follows: When the phone is on the hook 48 volts DC is across the red and green phone wires, Since the phone is drawing no current now, the snoop light (in series with the green negative line) does not light. Ringing is a 90 volt AC 20 Hertz signal superimposed on the 48 volt phone line. ‘The bulbs cold resistance is small no appreciable voltage develops across it, so it remains unlit. When you pick up, the bell is switched out of the circuit anda large surge _ current flows thru the line and bulb causing it to lite brightly. This large surge is caused by the low 100 ohm phone resis- tance being switched across the phone line. If you pick up during the ring the voltage is 48 plus 90 volts AC, and so this can be quite 2 surge. The capacitor opposes the volt- age change and helps absorb the surge of current. The bulb will momentarily brighten if you pick up during a ring, So to increase bulb life only pick up between rings. If the bulb goes out while you're talking the phone will go dead. To prevent this a zener diode (5 to 10 volts, 1 watt) is added. When the bulb burns out 48 volts is across the zener and it conducts. The zener does not let the voltage across the capacitor exceed 10 volts so the capacitor is protected. Thus a 15V capacitor can be used, instead of 50V, saving Space and money. Remember, the snoop light is not a phone tap indicator, it only indicates that all extensions are hung up. It will not work on a Black Box call. If the snoop light is connected before a hold button it will also light up on hold. The hold resistor is 100 ohms 1 watt. If you Sybarites want music on hold add a 10 ohm resistor (2 watts) in series with the resistor and bulb. Connect the audio output leads of a radio or stereo with Transformer output to the 10 chm resistor instead of the speaker it normally goes to. TAP is working on a snoop lite that will work with a Black Box. A schematic will printed as soon as possible. Ideas are welcome. Also we need to know if the off-hook current in your area is different from 60 ma. as in New Jersey. A different bulb may be needed for different places. complete ciréeuit Phone Line p Red + <9 From Audio Ree one Output R2: ‘Transformer, TO PHONE Green ystem Dept. ecause you want to smash the State, — monopolies, right? Believe you have the ‘you want so long as you don't force er individual? Would you believe there's ls the same way? It's called the Lib- chapters in most "states". Many of the derate to us bomb-throwing radicals, me in town", Headquarters are at 550 sco, Ca. 94108. Tell them you ead "Thomas Jefferson" Ll, cL Z Ri R2 L2 =#48 or 49 Bulb =500 Mfd/15 volts =10 Volt Zener Diode, 1 watt =100 ohm/1 watt #10 ohm/2 watt R3=10K ohm/1/2 watt C2=1 Mfd. /100 volts SW1=DPDT Switch SW2=Momentary SPST SW3=SPST Switch Foreign Codes Australia 61 Leeds 532 Lyons vi: Kowloon 3 Cape Town 21 Adeleile 82 Wales (Cardiff) 222 Marseilles 91 Lamma 982 Durban 31 Brisbaine + 72 Sussex 4352 Menton Ma Wan . 986 East London 431 Camberra Denmark 45 Monaco 93 New Territory 0 Johannesburg 1 Hobare 2 Aalborg 8 Monte Carlo 93 Sha Tin 61 Port Elizabeth 41 Melbourne 3 Arhus 6 Montpelier 67 Taio 5985 Pretoria 12 Perth 92 Coperfhagen 1 Nantes 40 ‘Tsun Wan 040 Spain 34 Sydney 2 Esbjerg 5 Nice 93 Israel 972 “Barcelona 3 Austria 43 Grenaa 6 Paris 1 Haifa 4 Bilboa. 40 Graz 3122 Helsingor 3 Roubaix 20 Jerusalem 2 Cadiz 56 Innsbruk 5222 Herning 7 Rouen 35 Nazareth 65 Granada 58 Klagenfurt 4222 Horsens 5 St. Tropez 94 Tel Aviv 3 Madrid 1 Ling 7222 Kalundborg 3 Strasbourg 88 ttaly 39 Malaga 52 Salzburg 6222 = Kolding 5 ‘Toulouse 61 Bologna 51 Palma De Mallorea 71 Vienna 222 Nordborg 44 Vouvray aT Brescio 30 Ceuta 56 Belgium 32 Nyborg 9 Germany 49 Florence (55973 “Seville 50(54) Antwerp 03 Odense 9 Berlin 311 Genoa 10 ‘Toledo 25 Brussels 2 Randers 6 Berlin Military 3114819 Milan 2 Valencia 62(63) Charleroi 7 Ringsted 3 Switchboard Japan 81 Sweden 46 Courtrai 56 Roskilde 3 Ettlinburg ‘7124 Fukuoka 92 Gothenburg 31 Genk 1 Silkeborg 6 Frankfurt 151 Hakone 46 = Karlstad 54 Ghent 9 Skaelskor 3 Hamburg 411 Kawasaki 44 Kristianstad 44 Leuven 16 Svendborg 9 Hanover $11 Kobe 1% Lund 46 Liegz 4 Thyboron 7 Heidelberg 621 Kyoto 75 Stockholm 8 Lokeren 9 Vejle 5 Mannheim 621 Mob 78 Uppsala 18 Mous 65 Viborg 6 Mannheim Mil. 621+730 Nagoya 52 Switzerland 4. 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Poper While we're on the subject. we'd br remiss if we didn’t pass along a Berkeley Furb report that phone phreahs in the mav- um security: prison at Wayside Honat hancho in Los Angeles have been busted ‘on charges of making long-distance calls us- ing coumerfeit credit card numbers, The ze accused of running up cai, One prisoner had the temer charge all his calls to the Chino. Cal municipal court, Another inmate, aocord- ing te sheriff deputies, used the phone to sait Washington and talk personally to ‘Supreme Court Justice William ©. Douglas shortly before Dougtas suffered his st And a third inmate, according to poli as actually using the prisan phone to talk to friends on the outside to plan rqbberies. The scheme was discovered when the in- mate called a wrong number — that of x police lieutenant. Pormit No. 209 Groat Neck, N.Y,