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(~~March 20,2000~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~)
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(~~~~~~~~~CONVERTING A TONE DIALER INTO A RED BOX~~~~~~~~~~~~~~)
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(~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~By Swordkeeper~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~)
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You have my Premision to give this to distibute this and post this on your baord as
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long as you dont modify it in any way, shape or form, also I am not responsable for
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what you do with this info-this is writen for edu. Only and is not to be used for
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illegal means.
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Ok-now that my ass is covered-on to the phun stuff!!!!!!!!!!!
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Using a Radio Shack Tone Dialer was by far the most popular method of building a
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red box in the 90's. But know its the year 2OOO and Radio Shack knows that we use
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there ToneDialer's for phreaking. This text file should shed some light on the subject-
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Light thats fresh,and new and up to date-as ther are too many old text files online.
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Now you may wonder what the legitimate use of a tone dialer is. Tone dialers are used
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to access touch tone voicemails and voice menus when you're calling from a rotary
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dial phone. Even though rotary dial phones are very close to if not already obsolete now,
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tone dialers still come in handy to store commonly dialed phone numbers in. They
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can also be useful to a phreak when a phone has a lock on it to prevent long distance
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dialing/phreaking or disables it's keypad .
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The biggest problem with explaining this method is the fact that there are different
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variations of ToneDialers themselves. Thats right- Radio Shack knows that certain
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people buy these tone dialers for the sole purpose of Phucking with the phone
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company.And to combat this they have come out with two new models of the
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"33 Memory Pocket Tone Dialer" in just the last decade.
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The first "upgrade was" a definate improvement for the underground. The
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circuit board remained the same but the outer casing was sleeker looking, a bit
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smaller, more water proof and made it easier to install the over-sized red box crystal
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of 6.5536Mhz.
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But in the last 3 and a half years or so (1996-1997), they'd upgraded once again, this
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time to stop us phreaks from modifying it for illegal use.
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What they did was disguise it (tha crystal) as a capacitor - its in the same place as
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the old crystal always was and it has Z3.58M written on it. Its the same color as
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the capasacitors next to and all around it
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Below I have put a list of the different kinds of tone dialers available from
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Radio Shack. If you have further questions about the different models,
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Radio Shack can be contacted by dialing 1-800-THE-SHACK.
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43-145 This is a cheap tone dialer with no memory presets on it. These dialers
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cost $16.99 and can be modified, but without the memory presets you won't be
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able to make quarter tones, just nickels which sucks and can be a little too
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time-consuming. But if you are poor and need to save a lousy 10 bucks,
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this is the way to go.
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43-141 This is the original 33 memory pocket tone dialer. This model was brown
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and very ugly-70's looking compared to the newer models. This one will work
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for red boxing just as good as the new ones. Radio Shack stopped making this
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model in 1994.
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43-146 This is the current 33 memory tone dialer which sells for $24.99. Both
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the newest "hack-proof" model and the 1995-model share the same catalog
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number, contrary to popular belief. The crystal in this model has been disguised
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to trick people into thinking that you can no longer use it for illegal Phreaking.
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MODIFYING A TONE DIALER
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This data was from my own experiance and is not taken from anywher els.
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You will need:
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Radio Shack pocket tone dialer model #43-141 or #43.146 ($24.99 each)
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Three AAA batteries
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Soldering Iron +solder
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Needle Nose Plaiers
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Small regular and phillips screwdriver
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Wire clippers
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A 6.5536 MHz crystal (you can get them from me-more on that later)
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Electrical tape
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1. Place the dialer on the table keypad side down and speaker side up.
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2. Remove the battery cover and all the batteries.
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3. Use the phillips screwdriver to remove all four screws on the back of the
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dialer. If you've got the new model, there will be six screws.
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4. Now carefully slide it open-and set it down carefully so you dont break
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the speaker wires.-make sure to take out the two swiches on the side and
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put them in a safe place-you will need one of them later.
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5. On the left hand side down near the battery compartment, you'll see a
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yellow cylender-THIS IS NOT THE CRYSTAL! instead look for
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something that looks like a capacitor - its in the same place as the old
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crystal always was and it has Z3.58M written on it. Its the same color as
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the capasacitors next to and all around it
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6.Found it? good.This is the crystal you want to remove. Pull it up with your
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fingers and break away all the glue that's holding it down.
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7.Use your soldering iron and un-solder it from the circuit board. keep this
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crystal in a safe place -never throw away good electronics parts.
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8. Now solder the new Cystal (the 6.5536 mhz) to circet board in the place
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of the old one
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9. After you do that take the electrical tape and cover the crystal in it
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to insulete it so you dont have a short-make sure its done right.
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10. The new crystal you're putting in is about twice as big as the old one -so
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it's kinda hard to get it in there. There's a few capacitors that you can bend
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over to make some more room. And You will also have to bend the leads to
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your new crystal inward (so its flat on the board)a little.
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11. Now Lets take the LED out-all it does is use power and Phuck up your
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Phreaking Phun-dont worry it wont couse a short. Be care full to take it out
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and not let solder close the circet-you would then have a short and it
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wouldnt work.
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12. Done? yes? good. Now melt some solder and close the power switch by
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soldering it closed-dont worry-the box will only use power when the buttons
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are pushed-they wont run down the battery if this is done right.
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13.Now carefully put the STORE/DIAL switch back in its socet-dont worry
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about the power switch as we already took care of it.-if you want to put it
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in though do so.
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14. Snap the two casing halves back together,being careful not to pinch any wires.
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15.Put the screws back in and tighten them up.
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16. Insert your 3 AAA batteries
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17. push a button-if it makes no sound-open it up and check your conections.
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if it makes a sound go on to the next part.
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PROGRAMMING YOUR RED BOX
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Now that your dialer is put back together and the batteries are in, test it out
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by hitting a few keys. You should hear high-pitchedtouch tones. The "star"
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or "*" key on the dialer is your coin key. By hitting this key quickly one time,
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you create a nickel tone. Two times makes a dime tone and five times equals
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a quarter tone. Nobody can hit the button fast enough to make a quarter tone so
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you have to program 5 hits into one of the memory locations.
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You should be using the top 3 Priority buttons. P1 will be your quarter,
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P2 your dime and P3 will be thenickel. So here's how to do it:
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(1) Switch the unit on. The red light in the corner should come on
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unless you've disconnected it like you should of.
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(2) Slide the DIAL/STORE switch to the STORE mode.
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(3) Press MEMORY, *, *, *, *, *, MEMORY, P1. That programs your quarter.
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(4) Press MEMORY, *, *, MEMORY, P2. That programs your dime.
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(5) Press MEMORY, *, MEMORY, P3. And that's the nickel.
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(6) Slide the DIAL/STORE switch back into the DIAL mode and
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you're ready to go.
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Try pushing the priority buttons now. Each one will emit a different high-pitched
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chirping noise. This is what the phone hears when you deposit money into a
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pay phone. If you've ever red boxed with a taperecorder or heard the actual pay
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phone tones before, you'll notice that these tones are slightly slower than the real ones.
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Don't worry, the pay phone can't ever tell the difference and it's rare to find a
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live operator who can.
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If you want to program in $1.00, it's best to use this programming string:
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MEMORY, *, *, *, *, *, 0, *, *, *, *, *, 0, *, *, *,*, *, 0, *, *, *, *, *, MEMORY, P3
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(or any other button)
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This will make $1.00 go in a lot faster than if you'd used the PAUSE feature because
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"0" is being used as a substitute for PAUSE. (The phone just ignores the 0.)
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Don't use this string on a live operator, though! Using the P3 location
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will replace your nickel tone.
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TROUBLESHOOTING
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One of the most common problems I've had with my red boxes over the years,
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is that the tones will stop working in the middle of trying to put in your money
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or they'll break up, giving you a live operator. This could be because you did
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a bad job soldering the new crystal in. More commonly, the contacts on the
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power (or the DIAL/STORE switch) have bent the wrong way,
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causing them not to touch the circuit board anymore.
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To fix that, open the unit and bend the contact in the switches out a little.
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Not too much or they'll break when you use the switch. If you've removed the
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light in your unit, there's really no reason to ever turn it off -thats why you
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soldered the switch into the "ON" position.
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MAKING A RED BOX/TONE DIALER COMBO
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If you're the type of person who just has to have a tone dialer AND a red
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box(like me) then you can have both without having to carry
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around two seperate units.
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1. Buy a small two-position switch like Radio Shack's model #275-407.
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2. On one end solder the old crystal, on the other end solder your 6.5536
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crystal and in the middle solder two small wires, each about 4" long.
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3. Solder the other ends of the two wires to where the old crystal used to be.
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Pretty easy, Right? You can put the two wires through one of the vent holes in
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the back of the unit. On my red box, I took the
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plastic piece off the back of the battery cover (You know, where you're supposed to write the memory numbers?) and screwed the switch onto the plastic. It actually looks good.
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Now you can switch between red box and tone dialer. You can store your
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numbers in the other memory locations or use the touch tones to get free
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calls on those damn privately owned pay phones.
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Geting the 6.5536Mhz crystal~~~~~~~~~~
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Contact me via e-mail at Swordkeeper_3@yahoo.com I have all the cyrstals
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you need-just ask and I will sell them to you at cost
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(thats cheap-I dont make any money on them)
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This has been yet another Swordkeeper.txt file
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