TAP No. 63 - How to Modify Your Bell Touch Tone Fone to Have 1633 Cycle Tones

flov to modify your Bell Touch Tone Pone to have 1633 cycle toné by The Magician In issue 62 of TAP, I gave you information on the use of 1633 cyzle tones for setting up toll free loop-arounds, mass conferencing, and becosing the information operator as 12 pplications with Autovon. Wow I will describe hoy to modify a standard Bell Touch Tone fone to have th extra four 1633 buttons. An excellent article on this subject appeared inthe April, 1975 issue of the now defunct "TEL" wagazine. The modification is very simple and requires only a SPDT toggle svitch (I recommend a siniature type) anda little hookup wire. Pirst, unscrev the screvs on the hottos of the fone and. remove the cover. You will see the Touch Tone pad on a supporting bracket. Loosen the two screvs on either side of the pad and gently lift it from the supporting bracket being careful not to break any vir The pad is enclosed in a clear, thin plastic snap ca: Resove the top section of the case and put it aside. feaove the bottom section and allow it to rest on the vires leading to the Touch Tone pad. The pad (bottom up) should look like the accompanying diagra Locate the two toroid transformers that produce the Touch Tone frequencis They are large and donut shaped Qabelled 2597 AS in diagram). | Remove the protector on the left one, if present. On the bottom edge of the pad about one inch dova fr the toroid transforaers, you vill see a three po: terminal strip (labelled 1 in diagraa). On some Touch Tone fones, the terainal strips are replaced by a yellow-orange wire. I£ you have one of these, just cut the vire in the aiddie, strip both ends, and these will correspond to the normally used terminals. Locate the terminal on the left and separate the two piec of 7??? metal, one on top on one on the bottom, being very careful not to break them off. Cut two one foot pieces of insulated vire and strip a little from both ends on each vire. How take one and solder it to the bottom half of the separated tersinals. Wow take the other piece and solder it to the top half of the terminal, the top half being that side vith the toroid transformers. Label the tvo vires "A" and "B" vith pieces of tape vith the top one being There should be tvo strips of five solder tersinals, one on tp and one on the bottom of the left toroid transforaer. We are interested in the The fourth terminal froa the left in diagram) is tl for 1633 (Pa indardized" components for all Touch Tone encoders vhether 4x4 or the normal 3x9, so the 1633 tap is there but not used). Cut another piece of vire (about one foot) and strip both ends. Solder one ond of this vire to the Sth terminal, being careful that you get a good solder joint and that you are not touching any of the Other terminals. Label this vire "C® and run vires "A", "B", and "C" through the bottom plastic case along with 1 the other wires plastic protector on the toroid tran there one) and snap the plastic pad case back around the Touch Tone pad. Take and put it back in position on its support and tighten the tvo holding screvs. Install the SPDT svitch anyvhere on the telephone cover vhere it will not get in the vay of components inside the phone. & good place has been found to be the little compartment under the hook svitch on the case, looking from the back. Now take your wire labelled "A" and solder it to the middle terminal of the SPDT svitch. Nov take the other vires "B" and "Cc" and solder them to the left and right side of the svitch. Put the cover back on the fone and hook up the phone your If all vent well, you should hi the 3x4 touch tones vith the svitch one position and vhen Elipped to the other position, your last coluan of 4 buttons becomes the 1633 tones I If it doesn't work, check your solder Gonnections to the switch and make sure you have the correct wire connected to the aiddle tersinal of the SPDT svitch. The connection to the svitch is the most commonly made mistake. When placing a regular call, reneaber to use the regular 1477 tone instead of 1633 or-you will & reorder. If this happens enough, Pa Bell aight send a repair aan to see vhat is vrong vith your line. I£ you have any questions, coments, etc.. please feel free to write we, The Magician, c/o TAP. Bs, SUMMER 1980 NO. 63 Hep —- = woe} 9 §-f-pl= le |S2S 1336 2 A a 0 —o- oO 1299) 1 7 7 on 770 [aso 91 0) PHRRACS PHTWE Phi MTN EA by Cheshtre 2 menting af Phone Phreake, Euneying thensclves es °Conrunications Hobhylrts” mat on + quict afternoon in January in the Los Angeles #ren to “iscuss the future of recess to the ti network by the hobbyists (phresks). fron as far as the iduest, rar the Fast Corst to attend the gathering. The mezting we hy invitation only, so many phrecks wha Vive en the at corst may not even have foune out th ele, Captein Centrex, 7 est hase phone Phreek, koste* the conference. ta Piscusned acu Pell switching conputers wiich sre putting the Phreaks out of the “free foxes" arene of calling éround the world for a ine (ené yrtting the fiae back). Cheshire Cris) 2 Of tie Ww York. City besee TAP newsletter talked chaut reese to the Worlé telex network, en? sheur equipment “fspteyor at a teleplone infustry trevtr Peneus Feitzerlen? | - dist of the yathering was th fe teking over the telephone switching \ othe pheecks hea Necker “yet cigital® if they stil? want te rule tht (nicro).aves. few Ge21 System fins were shan of these ws one celine? "the flin “aching is highly reccanneaesd for those plople inter. in suftching equipsent. Th Aoenn't get te but it is » pretty film. "Priority tanegiate Flln rhout the fire in ¢ ‘au york Telspho: siitehing center wis elso highly rete eriticr] vicwore in the aurience. these fine see eveilehla for civic grougs, and electronic habtyist clubs. your loca! telephane ny hucinens office for Infornition an tou ta thos? files. ‘ort Infepentent telcots ern aot ather Cling, for you rs well, LETTERS FROM READERS CONSUMERTRONICS CO. TOM EDISON TAP 2011 CRESCENT DRIVE « P.O. BOX ALAMOGORDO, NEW MEXICO 88310 1-18-80 Dear Tom, I received your last issues of TAP. Thank you very much for your placement of REBEL in the ad flyer. At least 12 new customers to date direetly due to that ad, bringing our total REBEL subscriptions to just under 200 (and growing fast). + Enclosed are copies of our last three issues. You may reprint any part of them but add: ‘rom REBEL, P.O. Box 475. Alamogordo, NM 88310. From time to time, | will insert a little blurb on TAP (free of charge) because 1 do want to sec you survive. 1am very sorry to hear that your subscriptions are diving. 1 think that a big problem is that your stuff is to esoteric. 1 am a MSE with plenty of applications experience and T still get lost on some of your articles. And, unfortunately, most people don't share your strong dislike for Ma Bell. The 1960s are gone - this is Looking-Out-For-No. 1 ime! 1 have found that total obsession against the utilities has limited financial furure- My main bag now is to sell SURVIVAL! I still get in my kicks against the rip-of utilities to get my rocks off but the main objective is easy and inexpensive ta. apply survival information. 1 have found that many Americans are expecting: A) A rmed Rebellion, B) Total Economic+Collapse, and/or C) Foreign Power Invasion, very soon. So don't be alarmed if they don’t get excited about credit card calls and red boxes. Change your format to reflect this change in people's interests and objectives, and you will be stronger than ever, as unusual and hard-to-find info. is now very much in demand. Also, consider selling books and pamphlets of your own creations, just as 1 do. They do provide financial security different than that provided by a periodical. 1 understand that you are considering doing your own pri All my printing is done commercially. It is expensive. Six months ago, I invested heavily into priming equipment and supplies to do it myself - an expensive disaster. The press turned out to be a piece of junk ($1,300!!), which I've mostly repaired myself. AB DICK parts and labor are astro~ nomical (when you can find them)! Supplies are numerous and expensive. Its 4 real art to work, maintain and repair offset presses, not to mention very time consuming and just plain hard work. Rubber gloves are fine until you lose a piece of paper in the form roller, which you have to dig out with your fingernails - inky hands may ruin your meals and sex life. And a press buys you very littte srithout an offset platemaker, paper jogger, folding machine, power stapler, etc., etc. ~ it gets out of hand FAST! T have found that doing my own Inyout work very interesting and profitable. I have a Veri- typer 820 Headliner and 70 fonts, a 94C Olivetti proportional typewriter (this letter) and a light table of my own construction. 1 can make you some headlines free of charge, Just let me know and 1'Il send you a copy of the fonts that Ihave. I understand that Zenith International, 41 E. 20th. St., NYC has Veritypers at reasonable price (conditions unknown). Well, take care. Have a good day. Keep on trucking. Best Regards, oN Jobo. 6b hea John J. Williams, President Visit Phun City So Ome by Cheshire Hany people visit the Big Apple cach year. Many attend the various trade shows and conferences. Others, come to catch a Broadway show or visit the other wonderous sights the City has to offer. A few come in on Friday evenings from 5 to 8 PM to share the companionship of fellow technology freaks who enjoy good food, and good beer in the back of a small restaurant on test 4th St (between 6th and 7th avenues) in world famous Greenwich Village. Dionysia is a sma}l Greck restaurant with o host of middle cast specialties. (For those into Greek, but not Greek food, Christopher St is a block north, but don't expect us to join you) A group of TAP's writers and editors gather here in the back room, and swsp information on the latest in satellite technology and telephone switching, most of which never secs print in TAP for verious reasons. (lots of it is pure bull shit) really burn called numbe: Tt you've wanted to come in to visit, but never had onywhere to stzy, write e couple of months in advance of your visit, and we will try to arcninge for you to stay with one of TAP'S motly crew of regulars. Don't expect much rore than 2 picce of floor and 2 sleeping beg, but you're certcinly welcome to what space is available, Write to TAP at the moil drop eddress, ger tetep and mark the envelope "Housing Committee". If your Fi och 2 ost, company is sending you and you just want to gct unch of leater together and rap, or have a local snow you around, just get in touch. & few of us have helped visiting pnreaks spresd around those expense account bucks to great advontage and to the delignt of oli. Granny’s pot luck: you're ever going to 5 only that, they've been known to sabotage the equipment of independent systems. I have personal knowledge that Bell will ignore certain rules when they do some types of installation but make the independents Talk back —even to ETERS ARE RECEIVED from ‘similar every sbout phone vice Toere's spec sue of beiltzuss ic rans a hae ber ware ca Gominates an area, mast be fully sccountatie te tts ‘customers, If a tility commiaton does not initiate ‘the questioning of whether eny rate schedule a com> ‘Taat's happening la many communities where tn- eat coos frag ich have sade Poot Seri a ee esd ee rand ome ‘those who despair, take | ! if ‘4. Customers falling behind tn bill arrange for installment payments over » maxim eipntmonth period with no interest charges. box, an owner of « small businoss is with Ma Bell. He claims they double or triple the number of times he calls frequently + At 9¢ per call, they manage to get « pretty good bill vorked w My boss once carried his c higher management love: someone high up that he would installed. This nover materisliz ‘and the lover levels claim no such device oxists. I would like to a know about this subject. If they don't exist, how hard would it be to develop thea? There ~ might be a pretty good market for such items. I am an electrician and often install conduit Jeints up into as promised by and on TaP readers vhat they ior systema. follow every rule to the letter. Hope to see you scon. The Omega Man MIXED TOPICS by Agent MDA ‘This one has strong possibilities for the entre- Preneurs: A sixteen-year-old girl obtained a bunch of carbons from credit card receipts. (These are the carbons left over after Master Charge, Bank Americard, and American Express transactions.) Shi hhad gotten the carbons from the trash bins of larg department stores, and from the carbons she got es- sential data like card holder's name, account #, and card expiration date. Then she rented a mail ad- dress, and using the data from the carbon copies, she telephone ordered lots of salable merchandise like cameras and color TV's, billing oae item to each account. ‘The merchants sent the goods to her rented mail address without question, where it w picked up and quickly sold. Thies hustling littl girl would probably have gotten away with the scam, but she was picked up by the police two months later on a different charge (soliciting her bottou), and when her purse was searched, they found over a hundred credit card carbons, Upon investigation the police found out from the credit card companies that many of the accounte were defrauded by fone order, and the girl was consequently charged. T got this story from the rent-a-box people, so I never got to find out why the girl was still carry- ing around all those scammed-out carbor Knowing a good opportunity when he saw it, a quick witted friend of mine was ab: $300 freebie. He had ordered an expensive micro- phone from Edmunds Scientific Company and had it billed to his Master Charge Card -- no signature is required for fone orders. The item was sent direct from the manufacturer, not from Edmunds was expected, and it was sent uninsured; no nature was required to receive it. (If it was sent insured, or signature required, a non-signa- ture in illegible scribble -- can be given, The illegible scribble is not a legal signature for all practical purpos . it probably wouldn't hold up in court as a signature.) After getting the package, he quickly called Master Chazge to put a stop payment on the bill for the microphone, and he called the Catalogue Company, too: “Gee, I never did get that item that I ordered from your company. Axe you sure that it was sent to me? I never got it. Anyway, I no longer need it, so can- cel the order." Chuck the Duck from California has discovered a new trick with airplane tickets. Recently he pur- chased some airplane tickets with non-sufficient funds (NSP) checks. On the tickets, in the area next to the “How Paid For,” was written “Check.” These tickets cannot be brought back for an imme~ diate cash refund. So, he took a red pen that matched the ink on the tickets, and he scratched out “Check“ and wrote in "Cash xt to it. He then went to a different airline and traded in the tickets that he just altered, and he received new tickets back with just “Cash* in the “How Paid For” box. The next day he brought the new tickets back for a full cash refund, which was twice as much as he was previously getting on the Black Market. Here's another novel plane ticket scam from Chuck the Duck: Chuck called up an airline and ordered a coast-to-coast round trip ticket. He used his own name to order the ticket, but he had it sent to a friend's addre: He had a fone in his name, but it was disconnected, i.e. not a work- ing fone. The ticket, belive-it-or-not, was sent to the friend's addre It may have been just luck that the ticket was sent, but if it was due to airline practice, then I can make the following inferences: 1) the airline didn't call his fone # before sending the ticket, and if they did, they will send a ticket to a disconnected fone; 2) the airline didnt verify that he lived at the address where the ticket was being sent, and 3) the airline didn't check to see if the fone # address and the address where the ticket was being sent were the same, or it doesn't matter. Upon these assumption then, it may be possible to order tickets to a dis- connected fone (or to any name in the fone book), and have the tickets sent to a place where they can be safely picked up, e.g. a rent-a-box or a vacant mail box. Purthermore, airline tackets are like airline money, and they can be used with ease between dif- ferent airlines; for example, bring a United ticket to American (or vice versa) and note how gladly they will accept their competitor's ticket. There are, however, a few general rules worth noting. Airline tickets are “non-transferable” and one has to say that he is the person whose name is on the ticket. Also, most airlines will not stop a ticket once it is issued, unless it is a ticket that has been reported lost or stolen. Tickets that were bought with NSF checks, and tickets that were fone ordered and not paid for, will be honored by most airlines, except for the airline that originally - got beat for the ticket. So, if you are going to buy a cut-rate-ticket, ask the seller how he got it, avoid lost or stolen tickets, and use the ticket with a different airline. FREE AIRPLANE TICKET UPDATE In TAP Issue #57.4, JP mentioned that he didn't know if this method -- writing non-sufficient fund checks for plane tickets -- still works. Agent MDA reports that the method in #57.4 is still valid in 1979 and will probably continue to be valid as long as the airlines accept personal checks. BLUE BOX SPEAKERS TAP Issues 29 & 12, among others, mention using telephone earpieces for blue box speakers. Has anyone tried getting one of the little devils out of a new fortress fone lately? First, the ecrew-on-cap that is over the ear- piece is glued onto the handset, and it is not feasable to unscrew it by almost any amount of hand pressure. ‘Then, if the screw-on-cap is sawed off at the seam where it meets the handset, most likely the fine copper wire coil around the earpiece will get gawed up, too. A lot of care must be taken in awing, or otherwise removing, the earpiuce. This s not easily done out in the open at @ public place. Therefore the fone handset, or the earpiece housing, should be taken home or somewhere where one can work on getting the earpiece out intact. The telephone cannot be easily yanked away from the booth; the stainless steel cable that holds the handset to the coin box is pretty tough. The cable cannot be easily sawed,or cut with a pair of snips, but a Large bolt cutter will do the job (if it is sharp) . Sawing the telephone handset in half and taking away the earpiece side is about the most practjcal method for those without bolt cutters. A small fine-toothed saw will cut through the handset in about a minute. Getting the earpiece out of the handset, even at home with tools, is harder than trying to open a clam with your fingernails. After most of the plastic has been removed from the earpiece half Of the handset, the remainder must be removed care- fully. Melting away the plastic with a heated screwdriver, soldering iron, or other instrument is tedious; vice-grip pliers were more effective in peeling away the unwanted plastic, carefully, from around the earpiece. The whole procedure from start to finish took an hour and a half. There must be an easier way. What do you do when you need a dozen earpieces for ae many boxes? Can they be bought surplus? HA is for tne money tnat you cost ne. is for your age, you're getting old. is for the buciness calls you crery. a 8 There's got to be 9 better way I'm told. & is for the earful 20 eneertul. t is for long distance bil'r so long. (L) Tnis is juet to tell you tnat I'm leaving. Good-bye Hr Bell, netlo ‘rericon. Prom an FCA ?recicor =6. RAO Credit Card Codes A Telephone Credit Card Number is %4 digits, divided 201 093,094,101 408 293 618 204,547 3- 2-4-4. The first ten digits are the phone 202 032 412 030,042 701 133 number being charged to. The next three are a billing 203 020 413° 009 702 176 code (the Regfonal Accounting Office, or RAO). A list of 204 456 414 088,089 703 033 the major ones is at the left. The final digit is for 205 054 415 158,159,167 708 319 verification, and changes annually. For 1980 (1/1/80 to 206 163 416 476,478 705 477 1/31/81),° the verification digit has to match the SIXTH 207 003 417 (157 707 223 digit of the charged-to number. The code is: 1s 208 039,120 418 505 72 31 oidc 209° 254, 419° 057,248 713 105,151 6th digit: 1234567890 @ Se 212 017,021,023, 501147 714 166,182 check digit: 48159 26037¢ o 072,074 502 048 715 202,330 Pi z 213 066,183,184 503 131 716 026 Example: phone number 202-456-1414 214 149 504 046 717 027,028 Credit Card Number 202-456-1414-0324 215 041,043 505 102 801 155 me 216 050,082 506 451 802 002 {To use the Credit Card Number from outside North 217 081,314 50? 310 803 189 America, an International Prefix must be added. The 218 236 509 128 804 257 1980 International Prefix is 1X.) 219 320 512 146,152 805 252,255 301 011 513 07,185 806 103 No set of rules can take the place of common sense, 302 010 514 470,472 807 481 but there are a few basics to using Telephone Credit Card 303. 153 515 134 808 461 Numbers. 304 034 516 127 809 490 (P.R.) Make Credit Card calls ONLY from pay phones (there's 305 044,180 517 095 812 321 no record of the originating phone), and at random times 306 457 518 024 813 531 and locations. Always be courteous to the operator (think 307-137 519 484 814 208,307 how mich company shit s/he has to put up with), and remen- 308 237 601 059 815 087 ber that s/he may listen to some of your conversation. 309 203,260,277 602 064 816 144 It 1s harder to trace someone who never uses the same 312 086,097,098, © 603 004 817 150 Credit Card umber twice. 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