How to Build a SILVER BOX
ATTENTION:
BE SURE YOU KNOW HOW TO SOLDER! THIS
COULD PERMENANTLY DAMAGE YOUR PHONE!!!
READ EVERYTHING BEFORE DOING ANYTHING!
Ingreadients:
- 1 Blue wire about 1 foot.
- 1 Gray wire about 1 foot.
- 1 Brown wire about 1 foot.
(Better to overkill....)
- 1 Single pole/Double throw
(SPDT) switch. (Smallest
you can find.)
- 1 Standard bell phone.
Tools:
- 1 Soldering Iron and Solder.
- 1 flat-tip screwdriver.
- 1 Very patcient person.
- Take the casing off your phone by
loosening the two screws
underneath it. (Don't take the
screws all the way off!)
- Loosen (But don't remove) the
screws on the side of the touch-
tone keypad. (The ones that attach
it to the mounting bracket.) and
CAREFULLY remove the keypad from
the mounting bracket.
- You will notice a plastic cover on
the keypad; seperate the two
halves and get the out of your
way. (Don't destroy them, you will
need them later.)
- Now, look at the top of the pad
(so the 123 row is facing away,
and the *0# row is toward you.
Turn over the keypad. You should
see a mass of wires, gold plated
contacts, discrete components, and
two large doughnut shaped black
thingies. (These are the coils hat
make the touch-tone frequencies.
All you are going to do is connect
the wires that Ma Bell "Forgot"
to.)
- Look at the coil on the left (with
5 solder contacts facing you,
rather than being perpendicular to
you.) Count over 4 contacts FROM
the left (or 2 conacts FROM the
right) and solder the GRAY wire to
the fourth post FROM the left.
- Solder the other end of the GRAY
wire to the LEFT pole of the SPDT
switch.
- (The point of no return)..........
Take a look at the bottom edge of
the keypad. You should see a row
of three gold plated contacts (to
the right of two very large
capasitors) look at the one on the
left and GENTELY seperate the two
touching connectors (They are
soldered together with a drop of
solder) and spread them apart.
- Solder the brown wire to the top
contact (The one futhest from
you), and solder it to the RIGHT
pole of SPDT switch.
- Now, take the blue wire and solder
it to the bottom (Closest)
contact. Solder the other end of
this wire to the CENTER pole of
SPDT switch.
DONE
- Now put you phone back together.
(To make it look professonal, make
a hole in the plastic top of your
phone and stick the SPDT switch
through it.
Now, (Hopefully) when the switch is
in on position you will have a normal
phone and when it is in the other
position the 3, 6, 9, and # keys (Which
are now the A, B, C, and D keys) will
magically produce the SILVER BOX TONES!
Have Phun and Happy Phreaking,
Agrajag
USING A SILVER BOX
First off, a silver box adds the
four extra tones to your phone that
Ma Bell never told you about. They go
like this:
1 2 3 A
4 5 6 B
7 8 9 C
* 0 # D
There used to be many places were
you could use SILVER BOX tones, but
now you can only use it in places were
Ma Bell hasn't gotten around to
replacing here old switchboxes,
(4A), or on Autovan.
Autovan is a special military phone
line, like a mass of private lines
hooked together (I think, but I'm not
sure).
To see if a specific area has the
old 4A switchboxes try this test:
Call up there directory assistance by
using XXX-555-1212, (Where XXX is
the area code you are check out. Now
hold down the "D" key as soon as you
finish dialing. (If you are using the
SILVER BOX that I showed you how to
make; Switch to SILVER BOX tones
and hold down the "#" key.) The phone
should start ringing and the operator
will answer.
If the operator screams at you to
stop pressing your keypad, then hang
up and try a diffrent areacode. (This
one does not work.)
If you get a pulsing tone the you got
a good line! Now try out different
numbers. 6 and 7 usually form a loop
line and two people with SILVER
BOXES can talk. But some of these
are whatched, so DON'T say anything
you wouldn't want your mother to
hear!
I have heard the 213 works but is
being watched. Try out of the way
states like Iowa, Monatana, Wyoming,
ect...
Have Phun,
Agrajag