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                          Red Boxing With Whistles
                             by THE RESEARCHER
 
  This article is presented as a news item only. It is not to be taken as an
  encouragement to make fraudulent telephone calls.
 
  Red boxing consists of simulating the tones produced when coins are
  deposited in a pay phone. Coin tones are beeps of 2200 Hz + 1700 Hz as
  follows:
 
  5 cents - 1 beep, 66 milliseconds duration.
 
  10 cents - 2 beeps, each 66 milliseconds duration with 66 millisecond
  pause between beeps.
 
  25 cents - 5 beeps, each 33 milliseconds duration with a 33 millisecond
  pause between beeps.
 
  Two methods have commonly been used by phone phreaks to produce these
  tones and make free calls.
 
  1. The traditional Red Box consisting of a pair of Wien-bridge oscillators
  with the timing controlled by 555 timer chips.
 
  2. Producing the signals with a computer which are recorded and then
  played back into the mouth piece of a pay phone.
 
  A third method has recently appeared which is a real mind blower. A phreak
  in the Midwest has extensively tested a method of red boxing which uses
  nothing more than a pair of brass or aluminum whistles. The whistles are
  1/4 inch in diameter by 4 inches long and are tuned by means of a wooden
  dowel rod which fits snugly inside. The whistles can be brought precisely
  on frequency by tuning them against a known signal source such as a
  computer capable of producing the tones. Once tuned, the whistles are
  glued or taped together so they can be blown together to produce the dual
  tone used in coin signaling.  It has been tested and proven that with a
  little practice these whistles can be used to make free calls. Now you can
  blow your money without spending a cent.
 
 

  Origonally written for P-80 Systems.....

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