TAP No. 45 - Beginning of the End, CB Frequencies

THE BEGINNING OF THE END! by TOM EDISON [had heped that the day would never come when I'd have to write this column but that day has arrived! The end of TAP is very near!!! And Iam very saddened by this all too real occurrence. As co-editor of TAP with Mr. Phelps for the past year, I've hinted, asked, pleaded, begged, swore, cursed, and coerced you readers into doing your part to help TAP, all with the usual piss poor results. All of my dire warnings about what would happen to TAP if we did not get reader support went unheeded. As a result, I am forced to make the following statement: Until reader support improves, THIS IS THE LAST ISSUE OF TAP!!! Let me give you some cold, hard economic facts. The issue that you are holding in your hot little larcenist hands is the sixth issue of TAP that we've published in one month. Printing costs are sky high. Postage costs are absurd! When we switched post offices from Great Neck, N.Y. to Keasbey, N,J., it cost us $60 just to renew our bulk mailing permit. Multiply these costs by 6 and you can begin to get some idea of just how much the economic crunch has got us by the balls! Couple this with the large outlay of cash we paid for the new TAP T-shirts plus the never ending rent increases that we are forced to pay our slum lord and you get an excellent view of the whole dark, gloomy picture. In plain simple language that everyone can understand, TAP is spending more money than we're taking in. You don't need a four year college degree to know that this is the beginning of the end! I realize that with the recent 6 issue barrage you readers really haven't had sufficient time to write TAP, but based on the results of all of my previous appeals for help, Iam NOT counting too heavily on new reader support! I have to confess that when I was informed of the possibility of taking over TAP, I had mixed feelings about it. It certainly was an ego boost to know that I was considered capable enough to run TAP and it certainly was a prestigeous feeling knowing that I helped run a New York publishing firm, but on the negative side, the pressures of running a business, the many hours of my free time that now must be devoted to working on all phases. of publishing TAP together with the ever present paranoia of waiting for the ax to fall, whether it's in the form of a monster- ous lawsuit from Pa Bell or just harrassment from the Post Office or IRS, are just some of the problems, pressures, and headaches that come with the responsibilities of running TAP. ‘The financial picture at TAP was never very rosy. We hada little cash in the bank, and Ido mean LITTLE! But 6 issues, postage, T-shirts, and rent have killed what little we had. Right now, as I am writing this, TAP owes me $350 and owes Mr. Phelps $120! We put in this money with the expectation of eventually getting reimbursed but prospects don't look too good, I'd be a hypocrite if I said that'I didn't expect to make a little money irom TAP. Aiter all, we'd spent our own money for transportation for the year and a half we worked on TAP before our transportation costs were picked up by TAP. We had also spent our own money for other TAP expenses and there's no real price that you could put on alll the hours and hours we've worked on TAP, both at the office and at home, There is no doubt of our unwavering devotion to TAP and to expect a small financial reward after almost 2 years of devoted work is certainly reasonable, It's really a damn shame that we might be forced to close just when things were starting to run smoothly. Cne of the improvements that you new subscribers may have noticed is that if you sent us a money order or cashier's check instead ofa personal check, your Sub was processed immediately and you got a copy of our latest issue right then and there instead of having to wait until we published our next issue. While you've got a right to bitch about the recent 6 month delay in receiving issues, you've gotta admit that to publish 6 issues in one month to catch up can only be considered a major miracle! And while the new policy changes that I've stated in previous issues might have seemed a little harsh, at least now you know the economic necessity for these changes, And while I'm on the subject of policy changes brought on by our current financial crisis, let , i ~ wT JULY-AUG 1977 NO. 45 me add two more, EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY : All DA requests MUST be accompanied by a self addressed stamped envelope and due to the high cost of photc-copy paper, we are forced to charge 5¢ a sheet for DA infc. We recently spent $70 for 1,000 sheets of copy paper and duplicating fluid. That averages out to 7¢ a sheet for copying. Copy paper is not only expensive, it's heavy and as a result needs extra postage and sometimes a larger envelope which can greatly increase the cost of our intire DA operation. We're sorry to have to pass along these charges to you but we can no longer absorb these costs ourselves. Also, until our bank account recovers, we will no longer be able to put new subscribers on our list for free. This may sound a little mercenary but I don't think that anyone's THAT poor that they can't afford $4. The only exception to this rule is prisoners. However, if we suddenly get a flood of mail from people all claiming to be prisoners and all asking for a free subscription, we may even be forced to change this policy. Nothing galled me more than that cheap fucker a while back who claimed to be a despondent, harrassed, and poor prisoner and who asked for a free sub. The only problem wes that the address he gave was not the local slammer but a ritzy panthouse on Park Avenue! ‘The only hope we have now to save TAP is for you (and I mean YOU!!!) to get your friends, relatives, and partners in crime to sub to TAP, We've got back issues, electronics courses, fact sheets, anti-Bell buttons, T-shirts, the book MONOPOLY (which is all about you-know-who!), and all the other good TAP shit that we've been trying to unload for years! This stuff is no good to us just collecting dust sitting around our office! ‘As a last ditch effort to entice some of you Jr high, Sr high, and college students to come in and give us a hand over the ‘summer vacation, I'm going to have expanded summer office hours for the months of July & August - Wednesdays from 12 noon to 7 PM and if there's enough interest, I'll even open the office on Saturdays. Come on kids, it's time to either shit or get off'the pot! And for ail of you who are now saying" I wish that Edison would stop bitchin", just remember, if you would have given ‘TAP help and financial support when we originally asked for it, you'd be reading a hell of a good article here instead of all my bull shit!!! Enjoy your summer, don't get-caught, keep on tokin', and hopefully we'll see you in the fall. Live long and prosper. Youth Hot Line Reports, Inc. .1877 - Do not make checks Out to Youth Hot Line Reports, PLEASE! Movement groups may reprint without permission with TAP's address given with all credits, Please send us a copy of reprinted work. Warning: We will prosecute copyright violatérss: CB BULL by JOE GREYHOUND Did you see what the editors of TAP did?! They went out and put together a couple issues of TAP and didn't save room for my CB column, not that it was written up yet or anything, They could've told me to get it in or somethingt Oh welllltt Oh well? Anyhow, here goes with another CB information packed article. Depending on how detailed I want to go, either all in this article or in the next few, i'm gonna attempt to explain how frequency synthesizers in CBs work. Although they're all basically the same, the frequencies and combinations of crystals vary a great deal. But before I start, in case you live in a vacuum and haven't already heard, the FCC has decided to widen the CB band to 27.405MHz, adding 17 more channels to the current 23, 24 if you used the last article I wrotel This gives a total of 40 channels. The frequencies are: Frequency Channel Frequency Channel 26.965 1 27.215 zu 26.975 2 276225 22 26.985 3 27.235 24 27.005 4 27.245 25 27.015 5 27.255 23 27.025 6 27.265 26 27.035 2 27.275 27 27.055 8 27.285 28 27.065 9 27.295 29 io 27.305 30 sigh 27.315 31 12 27.325 32 13 27.335 33 14 27.345 34 15 227.355 35 16 27.365 36 17 27.375 32 18 27.385 38 19 27.395 39 20 27.405 4o So theret was gonna tell yas how to add the 1? new channels, but I figured you'll need to know how your synthesizer works first, therefore; the modification will come in a later issue, so watch for itltt Oh yeht If any of you Sidebanders want a USA Sideband number let me know and I'll give you one. The first type of synthesizer is used in the following brands of 23 channel, AM radios: SBE Midland, Kris, Lafayette, Robyn, and probably a million others. So if the brand of your set isn't listed, check the crystal frequencies to see if it is used in your radio. The other two types of synthesizers will be explained in‘later issues Anyhow back to the first synthesizer. It uses 14 crystals. ach one of the 6 main crystals is used in synthesizing 4 channels. These main crystals are: 37.600MHz, used for channels 1-4 37.650MHz, used for channels 5-8, 37.700MHz, channels 9-12, 37.750MHz, channels 13-16, 3%.800MHz channels 17-20, and 37.850MHz, channels 22-23. These 6 crystals are used in both the TX and RX mode. Next come the 8 IF crystals which are subtracted from the mains by mixers. The 4 crystals used in the transmit mode are: 10.635MHz, channels 1,5,9 13,17,and 21 - 10.625MHz, channels 2,6,10,14,18, and 22 - 10.615MHz, channels 3,7,11,15,19,-and 10, 595MHz channels 4,8,12,16,20, and 23 It's really more complex, but actually what happens is this. Each one of the main crystals is used for 4 channels in a row, and the IF crystals are used one after the other in descending frequency order. Let's take a look at how channels 1-4 are synthesized, First off the main crystal 37.600MHz is used. For channel 1: In the transmit mode the IF crystal 10.635Mliz is subtracted from the main giving 26.965iitiz, the frequency of channel 1. For channel 2, 37,600MHz minus the next IF crystal 10.625iiHz leaving 26.975ifHz, channel'2's frequency, and so on. When the dial is turned to channel 5, the main crystal is switched over to 37.650MHz and the procedure is continued. At channel 9, the main crystal is again switched to the 37.700MHz crystal and so on. In the receive mode the 4 IF crystals, 10.180MHz 10.170MHz, 10,160MHz, and 10,140MHz are used along with the 2nd IF frequency of 455KHz. Again the 6 main crystals are used. To receive channels 1-4 the main 37.600MHz is used. Channel 1 is 37.600MHz minus the IF frequency of 10.180MHz leaving 27.420MHz. ‘Then the 2nd IF frequency, 455KHz, is subtracted from that giving 26.965MHz, channel 1. It goes on and on just like transmit except 455KHz is subtracted along with the receive IF crystal frequency, And that is itlilt In the next column I get out, I'll have a modification which will enable the owners of sets with this type of synthesizer to add the 17 new channels to their 23 channel CBs. Remember, send any comments, questions, or CB related INFO to! TAP c/o Toe Greyhound 152 W. 42 St. Room 418 New York, N.Y. 10036 ATs REPORT by TOM EDISON If you think that the cartoon below I strongly su taken fron ki the yest that you read the acco N.Y. Daily News, who the damn trouble maker is, Cincinnati Belll May I uld never happen, then mpanying article dear readers, we now strongly urge you to blow the dust off your Boxes and call up Cincinnati Bell and tell them just what you think of their new "mone; EB rt en be setting after your teenage daughter. ‘The daughter who has developed 4 permanent curve in her spine from cradling the phone to her ear. The aughter who has never learned to say goodby in less than a half hour. The daughter who has effectively blocked ut all phone communications with the ‘outside world. (You have relatives. who have been trying to get through ‘for more than five years.) ‘The daughter who talks all day” and all night on the phone about nothing — and practically for nothing. Well, all that is going to change — at least’ the talking-for-practically-noth- ing part. Ma Bell is looking at new rate systems that will charge people for how much they actually use the phone. The new rate ideas will also charge accord- ing to the time of day the phone is used, the local distance covered, the length of time you talk and the number of calls you make. ‘The new approach is called “meas- ured rates” and is far more sophisticat- ed than is the “message unit” system used by some Bell companies today. ‘The message unit system only bills for the number of calls and their duration. ‘The measured rate system adds time of day and distance into the mix. If you all a friend 35 miles away at 2 pm, your charges could be eight or nine times higher than they would be if you placed a call toa friend down the block at midnight. Cincinnati Bell has proposed using the measured rate system on an exper mental basis. If the Ohio Public Ut ties Commission passes the proposal more than 10,000 Cincinnati Bell cus: tomers would start using the measured rate system. If the initial plan is suc- cessful, the remainder of Cincinnati Bell's subscribers would be worked into measured rates, ‘The plan is likely to be successful for several reasons. First, there is much agitation on ‘the part of consumers to alter telephone billing practices to fit usage. (Your neighbor who works all day and rarely uses the phone is cur- rently subsidizing your blabby daugh- ter.) Measured rates would result in ower rates for occasional talkers and heavier bills for gabbier customers. .er "measured" units. Show them you care. “We'd better hang up now. This is costing money.” ‘The state regulatory bodies are like- ly to view measured rates as more fair and accurate a system for relating costs ‘and revenues. ‘The heavy phone user will bear a larger share of overhead and capital costs than he does now. This will be fairer than current rate systems, which allocate a disproportionately large share of such cost factors to the light phone user. ‘The Cincinnati experiment _ will probably succeed because most Cincin- ‘hati innovations tend to take root and spread throughout the rest of the Bell system. It was Cincinnati Bell that introduced us to charges for directory assistance in 1974. Cincinnati Bell gave us the first complete direct dialing sys- tem in the early "0s. And Cincinnati Bell is further along than other Bell companies in the use of electronic switching equipment. (It is the use of electronic switching equipment and computer programs. that. allows meas- lured rate billing systems to be imple- mented efficiently.) You'd better get your daughter into your own measured calling system, Otherwise. the measured rate system will make your phone bill look like this ‘winter's heating bills. LETTERS FROM READERS Dear TAP, If you have seen this article in your local paper about a device that instantly traces your fone, don't immediately get uptight. Francis Kennedy cannot trace calls that come to his telephone any easier than you. The article got me a little worried so I calied Mr. Kennedy. His number is listed. The only fones he can tell the number of are those which have built in encoders. The way this works is, when the receiving party picks up his fone, the calling party's fone sends out a code to tell the receiving fone the callers number. This leaves many possibilities. One could easily change the ID, Kennedy says it will probably consist of a PROM. It will be @ long time before we see this put in telephones! Thave heard that the way traffic lights are controled by fire trucks in Syricuse is with zenon flashers. Each truck has one on its front. When a sensor detects the correct frequency flashes, it changes the light to green. More on this later. Bumper Stickers: "Ma Bell has got me by the Calls" "One Bell System, It Qurks!" (this one is original) Edward Extract Dear TAP, Inclosed find instructions for modification of standard Bell six button (including the "hold" button) to conviently operate as a home style desk set(single line). 1, Remove and discard the fat 50 conductor cable 2. Remove all wires from the screvs going to the pusabuttons. 3. Remove green wire from coil block L2. 4, Remove pushbutton assembly (2 screws on bottom of phone). 5. Remove and tie back the wires fron the bell. 6. Remove three wires which go from the Touch Tone pad to the coil block. They are orange, violet, and green & white. Insulate the ends and tie back. 7. Move the green wire from the Touch Tone pad to coil block terminal F 8. Connect the wires from the hook switch to the coil block: Yellow to L2 Green to L1 Brown to C Move Grey from L1 to L2. Move White from C to F. Move Grey from F to waste basket. 9. Connect Red and Green to Ll and L2. If the Touch Tone does not work, reverse these leads 10, Put push buttons back in to fill up the hole: Jim Dear TAP, There is a certain number I can call during business hours and get a recording played back tome that says, "zero-zero- zero-zero-zero," as long as I leave the line open. When I hang up it is maybe 10 seconds before I can get a dial tone again. Whatisit? I tried dialing 0 to see if the recording was instructing me to do so, but nuttin’ happen’. Item 2: I attended an engineer-trainee school many many years ago, and we learned to add some capacitance to change the power factor of electric meters to slow them down. (If E & I not in phase, the meter wouldn't read power correct- ly). This has not been mentioned in TAP. Are meters in present use "power-factor corrected"? Excuse typing. Am trying to write this and screw my dog atsame time. Tuffl 73 Nickolai Testicle Dear TAP, Concerning the nonreproducing blue pens, I received a complaint from the bank about a year ago, which I ignored, but have heard nothing since. The address below was taken from the cardboard box containing the pens: Lindy Pen Co. North Hollywood, Calif, 91605 A.C, Dear TAP, What are the codes and how do you use the KP2 key on a Blue Box? I have tried dialing an 800 number, 2600 Hz, then KP2 + all the numbers between 100 and 200 + ST. Nothing happens! If1 could make the transit pulse KP2 work it would be a big help in routing both domestic and foreign calls when direct circuits are busy. Also, some African countries are very hard to get into on direct circuits, where routing via England of France should make it easier. Plez help me get the KP2 to work. ‘Thanks, Calif. Dear TAP, In two weeks I'll be moving into the country where there is a Duncan Stand up. I was digging under the Standpost found the three leadin wires from the power pole were only about one foot deep. Two black and a yellow ground, th not in conduit, just two aluminum #2/0 wires with the ground. Could T hook up with an aluminum nail and wire fore they turn the power on or will they be able to detect connection? Could they diy up their wire on my property t inspect it without my permission? Please let me know as soon as possible, I don't to go and electric out here is higher than 2 cat's back T love your sheet - Keep up the the word) work, re long DS INFORMATION FOR TAP: I have been very successfull in the following FREE ELECTRIC- Turn the meter upside down after meter has been read ,use three weeks, after besure you pull it out and replace it right side up before next reading Meters rum backward as well as forward, (Smile) “If it please the Court, I have a get-unt-af-jail-jree card. GET DOWN! by TOM EDISON Since this might be the last issue of TAP for a while, I'd better give the plugs that I promised to various groups while there's still time. The first plug is for EDEN UNDERGROUND NEWS SERVICE, P.O, Box 8410, 16681 Evergreen Circle, Fountain Valley, Ca, 92708, EDEN PRESS is published every two weeks. A Charter one year sub (25 issues) is $10. A two year sub (50 issues) is $18. A three year sub (75 issues) is $25, Add $5 for First Class Mailing. EDEN PRESS is a very = refreshing change from the usual dry, boring shit that fills Bogus bill our daily newspapers. It's everything you wished the New York South Plaintield police have asked any ‘Times was and isn't! If you remember the cool, hip, whitty, Easideat whe comes ecrass » taped UP freshness of the old Village Voice, you'll really enjoy the goings quarters ssible. The edges on in EDEN PRESS, I cannot praise it anymore than to say once ot 3° ere Gon toi Stitt more, if you dig what we say in TAP, you'll love EDEN PRESS, fing, George Washingtors picture Is In When you write to them, tell 'em you heard about 'em from the Center of the bill. ‘TAP. I know that Barry Reid, editor of EDEN PRESS, would s love to send you his catalog of EDEN goodies, which contains Bogus $10 bills among other things, THE PAPER TRIP, THE BIG BROTHER * ° * GAME, and for all you minors out there just dying to get in circulation served beer over the summer while listening to your favorite SOUTH PLAINFIELD — Someone tried 1 ralte the rock group at the local gin mill at the beach, POLAROID PHOTO ‘value of the dollar ~ with scotch tape. ID CARDS!!! Ifall you litte bastards wanna get wasted this ti suaed Tots Paths Suttonery tres So ects summer, you'd better get yer young asses in gear and get your ‘Boulevard, and purchased 18 cents worth of candy with a Phony.........er Photo ID Cards fast! { i Or to the stare owner though. My second plug is for a fantastic N. J. based rock group cif bles owner of the tale rl pale he called PRISM. They've appeared at some of the better rock t George Washington's ln re clubs along the notorous Route 35 strip in'N, J. including The Herc careney? Mezader Haters pictre onthe Edge, Bachelors I and Brothers II (or is it Brothers I and ‘Lt, Daly here said someone apparently bas been tearing Bachelors I?) and The Hanger and Mr. L's. PRISM consists toltsr Sater Pouce oe ond ate ee, of Brian on drums, Bob on lead guitar, Russ on keyboards, dolar ila wh $2 elgs, wth ant gun Jerry on bass. Even my very good friend Stan, the Polish ice have no suspects in the fraud case but cau Pride of Parlin, who also works the light show with the band, residents to lookout for the egal taped tender, and is a rock critic bar none, is overwhelmed by the sound of this band and their uncanny ability to do well known rock songs that actually sound better than the originals, something that is not easy to dol And if you're wondering just what the hell I'm plugging a rock band for; one, I like the band; two, since this is probably the last issue of TAP, what difference does it make what I write about; three, I'm writing this while crocked; and four, since I'm editor, I'll write any damn thing I please}! 11! Basic Jesuea are 50¢ each, 496 each if you order 30 or re. ‘more. Subsertesions~ 19 issues - US bulk rate $4. US First Class in plain sealed envelope $2. Canaia & Mexico stapled $2. Frreign $7. [ANT Inclade mailing tabel or Xerox copy ‘when writing ta TAP absut your subscription. poly $1.20 ‘Gauraea - S07 euch A - Basic Electricity.B- A. C. © Basic Phane Cperation.D - Amplifiere. Send only cheek or meney order {NO CASED t9 : TAP, lid w 4, ‘Street, Ram 418, New York 10096 ~ Thi tga mail dcp criv i 7 {iberation News Service New York “Tuition has soared again this year, but we're lucky in that our Greg gets Uke WEI 4-7 4 little something from the FBI to sort of keep an eye on his dorm floor.” TAP T - shirts #4, Specify size: Small, Med. ,Large, X-Large. Published for informational purposes only by Youth Hot Line Reports, Inc. Address all mail and checks to And It Won't Even TAP, 152 W. 42 ST, ROOM 418, NY 1003% Tilt... Phone phresks and pinball note can finally get together: The Game Show, oa ‘Manhattan Cable TV's Channel D, Monday at 5. laa callin show with a brand new gimmick. If you have a touch-tone phone, the “one” and “three buttons will activate the flippers on a pinball machine in the ‘udio when you dial 473.5386. You get one ball and prizes are given to the week's top tally. It's not easy, the high-scoring com- petition ix ctiff, and since anly one person can play at a time you have to be very patlent . . . just lke with éverythins else on cable. 45 From The Village Voice