TAP No. 40 - Black Box Update, Tuning Your Organ

BOOK OF THE YEAR Years ago Jacques Bergier co-authored The jiorning of the ‘ieians, which I considered a bewildering but fascinating ores ent of facts, theories, speculations, conjectures, and absurdities, Since reading his latest book, I'll delete the last word. The first portion of Secret Armies traces the history of industrial spying, descrTbes mahy lost discoveries, and is far more erage comedian, "The special service set up in Essen in 1920 was able to Keep the French from finding the giant cannon Imovn as the Pariskanone which had bombarded the French capital in 1918: they turned it into a huge factory chimney." "There is a tale of en industriel-espionage agent who, in the heyday of American industrial expansion, went from floor to floor in the HO of a very important corporation, pushing a small wheeled teacart and informing each office:! secret documents. Please put them on the table.’ Legend has it he then rolled off with them and was never seen again! One private detective wrote: "The victims themselves make things easier for industriel spies by marking their letters PRIVATE and CONFIDENTIAL and drawing attention to them." The second portion remains fascinating but the mood changes - as it describes some proposed and actual weapons. "I am led to believe that work is being done on the crea~ tion of a field of force which could change all insulators into conductors, and vice versa. According to quantum theory, this ie quite possible." One chapter describes secret manuals and magazines, If you enjoy reading Telco's confidential manuals, imagine what it would be like reading these! Polywater ('Polycrap", as one sceptic called it) is also mentioned. Also an H-Bomb "Lightning rod", which would be effective, unlike the fraud- ulent ripoff Safeguard (sic) AH! System. For camera fans, wiet FD3 manufactured at Riga, which is the envy of the whole world. It looks like a fine chronometric wrist- watch, is practically undetectible, and takes excellent pic- tures. With slight modification of setting, it can be used for microfilming documents, Until now, no other country has turned out anything like it." Tre search for invisibility is mentioned, of course. And there's the intermediate explosive, "One such exists, which can be made by mixing a common commercial detergent with aluninun powder. Police everywhere are terrified of this falling into the hands of bombers, who might blow up not only their target, but the entire neighborhood eround it, For specialists, we may say that this involves some fifty megajoules per kilogram of explosive, without need for out~ side oxygen. (for comparison, a kilogram of TNT provides 4.2 megajoules), And there's the antipetroleum microbe, and Catalyst C, which would dissolve all paper. The last third of the book continues in this vein: Setel- lites which can detect a single individuel on the ground, or a submerged submarine even when it's not moving. Californium 252, which has a critical mass of only a few grams so that an A-Bomb could be carried in and fired frome rifle. It concludes by describing 17 possible "local" vars: South Africa vs Black Africa, The Revolt Against Western Civilize- tion, China Against Indie, X Against the United States, The Great Panic... One is reminded of H. G, Wells’ statement thet "Human hietory becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." Ve epparently are in the home stretch, I think I'll go fishing. Or feed the squirrels, Or drop acid at the Brooklyn Botanicel Garden, oP INFORMATION WANTED Shhhh! Infrasonics and ultrasonics and microwaves, all of which are inaudible, can produce remarkable effects on people. A certain frequency around Thertz will cause an involuntary relaxation of the anal sphincter muscles. Other frequencies will produce other remarkable effects - lethal if of sufficient intensity. Remember the Sonic Disrupters of Star Trek? We'd like more information about generators From ‘the Big Brother Game: "a device which is about the size of a transistor radio and produces RF energy at a freq- uency of about 388mc. ... These devices are fairly simple to put together and the plans are commercially available... The French police are supposedly using a device which con- sists of a high frequency sound generator (about 25-35KHz) coupled to high efficiency tweeters and some concentrating baffles. The device vaguely resembles @ hand held bull horn and is used for ‘crowd control'..." =~. aw” NOV 1976 NO. 40 Dear Jim, Letters can be sent free by 2 method that has not yet ap- peared in TAP, It is ecological to recycle old envelopes, and if the envelopes are the type which businesses use (that have the metered postage on them and are never postmarked), then a stamp isn't even necessary! A large number of this type of envelope can be obtained by filling out Bingo (Readers' Service) Cards in many magazines. Professional journals give the best results. Kercheeeeeeecep, Edward Extract Westchester Phone Phreak Ass'n (WestPhreak) tabloid) and a copy of our Alternative Tec ine. If you purchase a service c gh IBM for your Selectric, you may be able to talk the serviceman into giving you several extra elements. is the w a variety of typing balls. it can no longer be sold by IBM. Hence, ifa servicemar replaces someone's element, he has one to service contract is great, I had about $: done on my machine for $45. We are presently in the market for a composer - machine that will give us justified copy: We hav that the best choice is the Compugraphic Exe $3500, That's a little steep considering the fact th gross only $7,000 a year P priced used one, please inform us. We'd like info on a Diesel powered heat pump mentioned in Barry Commoner's The r, I'm that it is even manufactured. We can provide some in: electric cars. We are working on a design that should double the performance of EV's such as the Elear and Citicar, We also have a design for a CB accessory that will provide a clear channel. It is similar but better than the design that Lafayette Radio uses. The repeater club here in Indianopolis has bypassed Bell's mobile telephone monopoly and has their own setup. This is a considerable investment but it's a lot cheaper than renting equipment from Bell, Icarus Free c/o FLEX 626 E 52nd St. Indianapolis, IN 46205 ACHTUNG! For information about TAP in special media (Braille or cassette) contact: Steve, Care of R,O,, Box 1241, GPO NY 10001. Must spell out "Care of". © Youth Hot Line Reports, Inc. 1977 - Do not make checks out to Youth Hot Line Reports, PLEASE! Movement groups may reprint without permission if TAP's address is given with all credits. Please send us a copy of reprinted wo WARNING: We will prosecute copyright violato Of course, there are ways to put some sand in THEIR Vaseline too, both legally and otherwise : UP YOURS! Suit attacks Their Mail mail monopoly ,Grounded by WASHINGTON (AP) — A former post- been Sneed i ronnie Tom Edison rer gua nig» ea atch s leading 9 legal attack mailboxes tq Lacey Township and adjacent ley Town: the financially alling mail agency ip sillions of dotars per year. ice anid that the charges ‘a. Edward Day, posunasier general In Sfsih Toma iver end Heol . the early 19000 and now a lawyer for an Winn, about 20, “of Forest Some of you may have noticed the new title for this.column, ‘of bulk mailers, filed the River, have been referred to formerly known as "Odds & Ends", I was underwhelmed by the ee ert aa Red Gavan Ths easy were erred complete lack of reader response to my request for suggestions ‘seboopoly on third class, or advertising, Pruradey after residents in the of a new title! Talk about apathetic, lazy babtards!11 The only wail. ra, ‘monopoly was created by plaints Seita was arrested by response I received was from Sam, 1/2 of the notorious and ‘tera law a have available to us the Satori entd thal Bale tod infamous Litchfield Larcenists, who is now studying computers them to Winn, ata midwestern university. You really get to know who your friends are in a pinch. And speaking of TAP friends, let me welcome Stan W., the Polish Pride of Parlin, into our fold, Stan's interests are fast electronic circuits, fast cars, and even faster women, not necessarily in that order! UP YOURS will act as a reader's forum and as such I welcome letters containing new & interesting ideas, improved electronic circuits, and sclutions to various problems. Newspaper items of importance will be reprinted along with my acid (I hope!) commentary on what's really happening with all of the Big Brother Monopolies. ‘This month's Big Brother Report is on Pa Bell's record $1 billion profit and the action taken the same day by N. J. Bell to help celebrate Pa's killing : AT&T Profit = ever Rel ear A Record $1B NEWARK (AP) — Oral arguments American Telephone & Tele- have concluded in a request by New ‘graph Co. reported yexterday that ‘ahernative of using private carriers,” he Said In an interview Thursday. My apologies for not having my columns ready for the Oct issue of TAP, With the opening of school and the start of my classes in September, I just didn't have the time to write them up. Besides, Mr. Phelps had been bitching that he had enough shit already typed to fill an issue. Even though it hurts my ego to admit it, the Oct issue was excellent in my opinion. I wonder if the Borden Company will appreciate the sharp increase in sales of Elmer's Glue~All that he helped to create? Jim has done for Elmer's what I'd like to think T've done for the manufacturers of 10 K ohm resistors, 1 MFD capacitors, and 56 volt Zener diodes! And speaking of 56 volt Zener diodes, I'll be damned if I could find one in Cin Sity the other day! I was both pleased and annoyed--pleased to realize that all of you home fone experimenters are playing around with some of the circuits I've shown yet annoyed that you'd be greedy enough to wipe out the supply at all the stores! Couldn't you have left me one Zener?! A word of warning to all TAP military personnel screwing AUTOVON--Uncle Sam is apparently out to get you : We'll catch you ‘Those who continue to use According to Parker, once AUTOVON and other military an ilegal call nas been ident- telephone systems for person- ified, the rest ls merely paper- aicalls canexpecttobebilledat work. The abuser is confronted Jersey Bell for a $181 million rate hike. itn profit in the three-month ‘As part of the rate hike consideration, the PUC will decide whether to allow period ended Aug. 31 climbed 25% from he same span a year earlier to a record New Jersey Beil to charge for directory assistance calls, as the utility has re- w01 . Revenues of $8.2 billion were up 12.7%, quested. How's that for sticking it to us without any Vaseline? Pa Bell ain't the only monopoly sticking it to us! It looks like the Postal Monopoly has found a new way to subsidize the appropriate commercial by his commander and sskedto themselves using OUR undelivered mail ; Oaare cebenecn eres 2° aaa pacity nn teaxe In fect, reports ahow tat catent says Parker, “To the ° ° een collected by USAFE HO. people Apso al wehave here in a sto iffort to U.S. to auction mail Ey dy See teat “tim TRA WOrSia0UL” eae Mal. recently uncovered were made to local auto garages, civillan banking tacllities and even to the Playboy Club in London. ‘The llon’s share, however, were ripped open WASHINGTON (AP) — If your collec tion of Conway Twitty's greatest hits never arrived tn the mail, chances are it's for a Purpose — helping the problems. ‘The Pastal Service is making profits from auetioning off books and records ‘after its new mail sorting machines have ripped them from their wrappers. ‘Spokesmen for the book and record in- dustries sald Tuesday that thelr merchan- dise has received unprecedented damage jn the mail since the Postal Service began using an automated system for sorting packages. But tn many eases, the book o record isn't damaged. It's simply separated from its packaging — and iis address — by the machines, they said, In these cases, postal regulations allow the intact book oF record to be auctioned off after a GOday. walting period. Congressional in criticized some of the devices used to sort packages as “nonsense machines” that cause needless damage. “When the Postal Service can auction ‘ff books that became loose in the malt {tis gives it an economic renson not to lo- cate the rightful owner.” Leo Albert. a tigators have ‘spokesman for the book in- dustry, told House Post Office subcom- mittee, ‘The Postal Service has announced a moratorium on auctions of books and records from June 1 to Aug. 31 while it looks for alternatives to the auctions. The Industries are pressing for an end to auc- tons. ‘A spokesman for the financially traubl- Postal Service sald no figures are lable on the proceeds from postal -suetloas since the service's billion dollar bulk mail system was completed this ‘year, The mall agency says books and Fecords are its biggest problems in the new system. ‘The spokesman sald the loose Items in ‘the mall “frequently are eaused by poor ‘wrapping, He sald postal rates for books and records are very low “and wo Rave found that book pul ‘and record ‘companies very aften won't invest in good ‘wrapping materiats."” Be instr Tepresentatives disputed this, “Our packaging is as good now a3 it's ever been, if not better," said Albert, chairman of Prentice-Hall International and head of the postal committee of the ‘Association of American Publishers. Albert sald the damage rate, if un- corrected, may cause book publishers to abandon the Postal Service for commer. cial parcel companies, despite the low mail rate for books. “We don't have to listen in {dividual of ‘lect al ing @ personal call. Gut it Capt. Jones calls Mra. JonesinSanFrancisco, we have a pretty good idea its not official business,” to the U.S. according ‘to a ‘spokesman. One individual at the air bass here has paid $549 for itegal calls, Another In the Wiesbaden area ia the record bala (Courtesy Cape Rober L- Tobias, Hg. ECA) Let me end my column with a very enterprising news clip from the New York Daily News : Xeroxing a Felony Build « better mouse trap and some rodent will find a way to spring {t. ‘That nema to be happening to Xerox Corp, which built = better copying mackine — the 6560 color model, and now counterfeiters are, according to Feports, using the device to tarn out bogul money orders, food stamps, stock certificates and mundry paper currencies. Following a West Coaat report that some corporations have formed a task ferea with government agencies to defuse the racket, Xerox tasced « statement, yesterday noting: “Xerox Corp. has been rare for & long tims of the concern of various government agencies, banking and financial institutions and thelr industry organizations about the possibility of the Xerox 6500 eoler copler belng used te‘ilegally reproduce copies of various negotiable documents, “Many solutions are belng implemented ... Oviously, we eannot publicize he datails of rach preventive methods.” Xerox aleo said seostomers. “Look,” eal fects {t ean't police the use of {ts copiers by ite pokeaman, is General Motors responsible for that Y ‘© Chevvy fs ased in a bank robbery, BLACK BOX UPDATE! by Tom Edison Here are some new Black Box circuits for your listening pleasure. The first is a Snoop Lite that will work on Boxed calls. If you will recall, the original Snoop Lite (See issue #29, Oct 1975) is connected in series with one side of the fone line which means that the lite needs to have the full line current flowing through it to light up. When an extension fone VOICE SUPERVISION DETECTOR MODEL 68 @ DETECTS BLACK BOX OR 2600 H2 FRAUD. @ TOTALIZES OCCURRENCES AND TOTAL TIME TIMED AUDIO AND A.C, OUTLETS or party line fone is picked up, the line voltage drops and the la MANUAL OR AUTO (OPTIONAL) FRAUD DEFEAT CONTROL line current through the lite decreases causing the lite to go out out indicating that a "snoop" is listening in. When Boxing, the 10 K ohm resistance reduces line current to such a low value that the lite cannot be lit. With this circuit, a Light Emitting Diode or LED is used in place of the conventional snoop lite. ‘The LED works on the low current level created by a Boxed call. The Zener diode across the LED is to protect the LED from the high 90-105 volt AC ringing current. Now, if some nosy bastard tries to listen to your Boxed calls, you'll know about it, And please remember that if someone does pick up on on your Boxed calis, the billing WILL start at the local CO! This circuit will NOT work with your own battery supplied Black Box because with your own battery to operate the fone carbon mouthpiece you draw_NO line current from the local CO. You must also know your correct fone line Ring & Tip voltage polarity to operate the LED, S,=SPST MoMENTARY S,+ SPST CzIMFD leo wvoc NON- POLAR Dit 2ver toma LED Das Ever t wart 2ENER Correct fone line polarity can sometimes be a hassle, especially if your Black Box is a portable unit moved from room to room or house to house. An interesting solution to this problem is the Bi-Polar Auto Black Box : Diy 2 100 vorT 1 ARP Zs56u. Swarr Dy “peee® ZENER To Fone FONE p Feats LIne oPDT Cz tMFD tee voc Nen- POLAR “NORMAL® ‘This is basically the same circuit as in issue #36 but in place of the rectifier diode there is a full wave bridge with the 56 volt Zener diode across the DC output. The Zener diode will momentarily "answer" your fone regardless of line Ring & Tip polarity, The full wave bridge will rectify the AC ringing voltage to a pulsating DC of the correct polarity to fire the Zener diode. With the switch in the normal position, the IMFD capacitor is shorted, the diode bridge is out of the circuit, and battery is being supplied by the local CO. When your fone rings, flip the switch to the free position. This removes the short across the capacitor and puts it in series with the line, blocking any DC current from the CO but passing any audio signals, ‘This also puts the diode bridge across the fone line which then momentarily conducts to fire the Zener diode and stop your fone from ringing. At the same time your own battery is connected to the mouthpiece circuit for operation. Cheap full wave bridge rectifiers are available from Radio Shack-Up. My Black Box Update wouldn't be complete without some info on the Black Box Detectors being built by Hekimian Labs: ‘The Hekimian Model GB Voice Supervision Detector is designed to detect and record occurrences of Blac: Box and 2600 Hz fraud. It combines the latest integrated circuit technology with sophisticated.detection techniques to insure reliable froud detection. By totalizing both fraud ‘occurrences and the total time of fraud duration it provides the user with extensive information on subscriber activity: Black Box or 2600 Hz fraud detection modes are front panel switch. In both mades, each is recorded on the OCCURRENCES total- time, in minutes, of the call duration initiation is recorded on the TOTAL TIME totalizer, Accessory outputs providing switched ac, switched dry contacts, and audio are activa. ted by fraud occurrence and may be timed aver three fats or left on continuously until an jon of the Black Box fraud occurs, Off-hook end fraud indicator fights are also provided. Black Box fraud is detected by sensing the presence of voice energy without a predetermined amount of il ‘A Black Box FRAUD DEFEAT ly provide off-hock supervision wy be performed auiomatically to discourage this type of subscriber or, as an option, tt upon fraud detect activity. 2600 He fraud is detected by recognizing the prosene> of 2600 Hz. Protective circuitry guards against voice simu- tation. When connected in series with a subscriber's loop, either 2600 Hz or Black Box fraud detection may be selec- ted, The unit may alto be bridged ecross the loop if onty ‘2600 Hz detection is required. ‘The unit is housed in a small rugged transit case and may bbe ordered with an optional security tock feature. tweuT Series Connection Insertion loss 1.0.48, typical Bridging Connection Input impedance Greater than 100K Ground Connection ——Not required TOTALIZERS ‘Occurrences 0 to 9999 occurrences ‘manual reset ‘Tors! Time 0 to 9999 minutes manual reset ACCESSORY OUTPUTS ‘Switched-a.c. 115 VAC at 100 watts Dry Contacts 2.0 amp a.c. maximum Audio 600 chm batanced Timing 1.2, 3minutes or continuous POWER 105 to 125 VAC 0-60 Hz watts DIMENSIONS 6" Hx" Wx75"D {with cover) WEIGHT tbs, TUNING YOUR ORGAN Many people have at one time or another the need for accurate tones of a certain frequency for calibrating sig- nal generators or an oscilloscope. We have in the past (Issues 7 and 12) shown that Touch-Tone phones and elec- tronic organs have precise outputs and we have published the frequencies of the keys. Now, their is a simple, low cost frequency generator available. Altaj Electronics sells Kit 013 for $15.75 (free postage), and it is advertised as a 1 MHz crystal-controlled oscillator with digitally divided- down outputs of 100 KHz, 10 KHz, 1 KHz, 100 Hz, 10 Hz, 1 Hz and.1 Hz. This is perfect for tuning the individual ranges of a signal generator, or making sure that your oscilloscope displays a square wave with 10 complete cycles occupying 10 divisions, when the time base is set at 1 milliseconds per division and feeding in a 1 KHz tone. Accuracy is .005% or better when adjusted with a frequency counter, which can be borrowed for the occasion. These frequencies themselves are not especially useful, except that they are convenient for calibrating devices that will be used as frequency references. Send a check or money order to Altaj Electronics, P, 0. Box 38544, Dallas, Texas 75238, Kit 014 is similar but uses TTL devices on the PC board instead of CMOS. Since CMOS uses much less power, we recommend it above TTL, so order KIT 013. The kit comes complete with all parts, PC board, but less power supply, which can be bought from them for $6. 50. Due to the kit's low price, we do not recommend building it on your own and saving a few dollars. PC boards are to be preferred for IC projects because they solder quicker, and this means less heat to the chips. We suggest you buy the kit rather than attempt to etch your own board. Dear TAP people, ‘Thank you for telling your readers about Dawn Enterprises! products: life extension data, vitamins and food additives, Libertarian Connection (our publication, which also con- tains life extension data), Unfortunately, you seem to have implied that we have available electronic plans from Don Britton Enterprises. In fact, we have no electronic plans, catalogs, or products. The Libertarian Information Coop- erative has no connection (no pun intended) with the LC and the LIC's statement that Dawn Enterprises would forward letters to them was made without asking our permission. In fact, we will not forward letters to LIC, or any other organ- ization, We would greatly appreciate your informing your readers of these facts. Sincerely, Lisa Dawn Box 90913 Worldway Postal Center Los Angeles, CA 90009 Sorry to have caused everyone inconvenience. JP. dail phone calls Te New York Telephone bed in N.Y.C, tat td. investigators Bed its investiga a fF in an area fc Distt Judge Marvin Frankel all ‘elephones hadebeen, «= TAP, 152 W. has ordered revisions at the traced to the 23 pay phones federal detention facility in ‘scattered throughout the Meas to curb fraudulent — 12-story jail. ;-distance telephone calls More than 100 prisoners cost an estimated $100,000 made a total of 200 fraudulent: since August 1975. calls a day to places as far Frankel Friday ordered that away as South America. 40 the 23 pay telephones available “The company threatened to at the Manhattan Correctional Center be converted to “re stricted dialing,” which will permit calls to’ the 212 area code only. In addition, Frankel said, the center will install 22 long- distance telephones to be rout- wiamrcictatecas | Che Record to be charged to the inmates’ commissary accounts. ‘Advance written authoriza- tion by the inmate will be re- quired for each call he wishes to charge to his c ‘account, Frankel said. INFORMS The Record is a FINK! 2 FOR 1 The best part of working at TAP is opening and reading the mail. Answering letters is also fun. Laying out issues is at least creative. Filling orders is a drag, and mailing out each issue has become incredible drudgery. Since no one has come in to help out, we will begin sending out issues two ata time. This will reduce our labor and postage and envelope costs by half. True, it will mean you will have to wait an extra month or so for every other issue, but it's better than if we decided "Fuck it!" and quit entirely, isn't it? 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