Red Boxing.. By.....: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- What you'll need: a Radio Shack 33-memory pocket dialer soldering/desoldering equipment A 6.5536 MHz Crystal (Availavle at JDR Microdevices, Fry's Electronics About $1 each.) Ok, now this is the hard part. Crack open the dialer, and find the 3.579 MHz crystal. (It'll be a small cylindrical metal object, about 7mm long, 3mm wide) Desolder this. Take your 6.5536 MHz crystal and solder it into the place where the 3.579 MHz crystal was. (You may need to solder some longer wires into the spot where the 3.579 was- the 6.5536 is bigger than the 3.579..) Close your dialer. Ok, now all the modifications are done. Using the memory in the tone dialer, program in 5 asterisks (*'s) into the p1 location. Try dialing the p1.. Voila! Quarter tones. Now for the complications.. Some operators have been figuring out how to "get" these red box users. For example, after dialing with a red box, an operator may come on telling you that he/she is having technical difficulties, and that he's going to return your money (the money you NEVER put in, that is.) Now here is the part where the operator is depending on your stupidity. If you are stupid, you'll get caught. Now listen: He'll say he's going to return your quarters, wait a few seconds, and ask you if you got your money back. The time between he tells you and the time he asks you if you got the money back is the crucial moment. In this time, if you had any sense at all, you were listening for the the operator coin release signal and the click of the hopper inside the phone. (If you can't hear the latter, get yourself a miracle ear, or quit phreaking.) If you did hear the hopper or the release signal, you're probably safe and you can say "Yes, I got my money back".. (But still keep on your toes, he might try it again.) Now, if you DID NOT hear the signal or the hopper click, say "NO! I did not get my money back!" - The guy was trying to fool you! He's hoping that, when he asks you if you got your $$$ back (Remember, he never even TRIED to release the money, he thinks you've got a box..), you'll say yes, and BINGO! You're caught with your little black box. (How could you get money back if he never released it???? Uh-oh. You've been a bad boy!) (Hey, it's happened to me - those dumb operators are smarter than you think..) Now, this little strategy is not a surefire way to use your box. All pay phones and systems differ. I suggest you hold the box a few inches away from the mouthpiece (The box is louder than the actual quarter tones, that's how some operators tell..) And I wouldn't put in 25 quarters in a row to call Zimbabwe- (Even the dumbest operators know that no human can insert quarters into a slot at the regular timing of a computer.. I.E. which series of clicks would you suspect most? A series of regularly timed, regularly spaced clicks, or a random bunch of them?) Also, as a REAL safeguard, and as an indicator to tell you when the operator is playing that dumb little trick, I'd put in a nickel or a dime first, and then put in the rest of the "money" using your red box, using the above techinques (Irregular intervals, holding the box away, etc..) Hey- It's not that bad, Imagine- an hour on a 1-900 number for only a nickel..! The techy stuff.. Tones: 1700/2200 Hz simultaneous, Quarter: Tone on for 33ms, off for 33ms, (repeated x5) Nickel: 66ms Dime: 66ms on, 66ms off, 66ms on.