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(>Introduction<)
This is a fairly simple modification that can be made to any phone.
All it does is allow you to take any 2 lines in your house and create a party
line. So far I have not heard of any problems with it from my friends that
have set one up and I have not had any either. There is one thing that you
will notice when you are one of the two people who is called by a person with
this box. The other person will sound a little bit faint. I could overcome
this with some amplifiers but then there wouldn't be very many of these boxes
made. I think that the convenience of having two people on line at any one
time will make up for the minor volume loss.
(>Phone Modification Instructions<)
Here is the diagram:
KEY:___________________________________
! PART ! SYMBOL !
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!BLACK WIRE ! * !
!YELLOW WIRE ! = !
!RED WIRE ! + !
!GREEN WIRE ! - !
!SPDT SWITCH ! _/_ !
! _/_ !
!VERTICAL WIRE ! ! !
!HORIZONTAL WIRE ! _ !
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* = - +
* = - +
* = - +
* = - +
* = - +
* ==_/_- +
*******_/_++++++
! !
! !
! !
!_____PHONE____!
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In some houses the black and yellow are already wired in others
you will have to go out to your box and rewire it. A good way to figure out
which line is which is to take the phone you are looking for off the hook.
Then you only need to take the red and green wires entering your phone and
hook them to the different pairs of red and green going into the house. You
can't hurt anything in the phone or telephone by probeing. When you find the
pair that you want take the black from your line and attach it to the red of
the other line then take the yellow and attach it to the green line. Now you
are all set to go. For people with rotary phones you can have one person
call you then place the second call out to the other person. Though not
phreakers tool, the brown box can be phun.
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