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:Clear Box:
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The clear box is a new device which has just been invented that can be used
throughout Canada and rural United States. The clear box works on "PostPay"
payphones (fortress fones). Those are the payphones that don't require payment
until after the connection is established. You pick up the fone, get a dial
tone, dial your number, and then insert your money after the person answers.If
you dont deposit the money then you cannot speak to the person on the other
end- because your mouth piece gets cut off, but, not the ear piece. (obviously
these phones are nice for free calls to weather or time or other such
recordings).All you must do is to go to your nearby Radio Shack, or electronics
store,and get a four-transistor amplifier and a telephone suction cup induction
pick-up. The induction pick-up would be hooked up as it normally would to
record a conversation, except that it would be plugged into the out- put of the
amplifier and a microphone would be hooked to the input. So when the party
that is being called answers, the caller could speak through the little
microphone instead. His voice then goes through the amplifier and out the
induction coil, and into the back of the reciever where it would then be
broadcast through the phone lines and the other party would be able to hear the
caller. The Clear Box thus 'clears up' the problem of not being heard.
Luckily, the line will not be cut-off after a certain amount of time because it
will wait forever for the coins to be put in.The biggest advantage for all of
us about this new clear box is the fact that this type of payphone will most
likely become very common. Due to a few things: 1st, it is a cheap way of
getting the DTF, dial-tone-first service, 2nd, it doesn't require any special
equipment, (for the phone company)This payphone will work on any phone line.
Usually a payphone line is different, but this is a regular phone line and it
is set up so the phone does all the chartering.
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