On Sun, 08 Aug 2010 18:21:05 -0400, Michael A. Terrell wrote:

Meat Plow wrote:

On Sun, 08 Aug 2010 15:44:09 -0400, Michael A. Terrell wrote:

Meat Plow wrote:

I could whistle at 2600hz and hang up the central opertator line. I
made a blue box for a friend but he got busted before he used it. He
was a greek with dual citizenship and had a girlfriend in Greece he
would call using a reel to reel tape with some prerecorded tones on
it. He got the idea from one of his greek buddies that was here
visiting that built a working blue box and recorded the tones and
their sequences on tape. The box was easy to build, all tin can 741
op amps on a self etched PC board. Problem was tuning it, I was only
17 back then and had no way to tune it. Said friend was set to take
it to school electronics class and tune it when the FBI hauled him
off one early morning in his boxer shorts He was deported back to
Greece and lost his US citizenship.


Even 'Dr. Johnny Fever' knew not to mess with the Phone Cops! ;-)

They found out in part by talking to his girlfriend. She explained that
he used a tape device. I stayed at his place the night before so i was
there at 6 am Sunday morning when they came a knockin on his door. I
was zipped up in a sleeping bag peering through an opening when he
answered the door (had a safety chain) opening it part way just enough
for an arm holding a gold badge to pop through I stayed in the bag
while they looked for a tape device which he didn't have there at the
time. They found a loop of tape on an Echoplex tape delay box for
guitar that he had and un-looped it with a pencil thinking they found
the evidence They asked him who was inside the sleeping bag and he
said just a friend and they never bothered me. He had hid the blue box
pretty well and it wasn't found because they found the tape quickly so
they were satisfied they had what they were looking for. When they left
I dug out the blue box and destroyed it. Since they really had no
evidence of a device that could make the calls but knowing the calls
came from his number back when he was living with his parents they
could only deport him and revoke his citizenship. He never went on
trial for the calls. Just was given a plane ticket and said see ya
later. They probably made it impossible to get a visa back into the
country since I never saw him again. But he did call me maybe 10 years
later from Greece. He said he was in a friends recording studio. That
was in 1982.


You're lucky it wasn't Scully & Mulder. They would have know where
it was, before the door was opened. ;-)

Bwahahahah I loved that show when it was on.



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