SWAT MAGAZINE ISSUE THREE: MARCH 1998* ************************************** Which boxes work in UK? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This list of boxes stolen from the alt.2600 FAQ and converted for the uk (this is just an 'educated' guess of what will or will not work in the uk, this is only in *theory* and any which I say will work will probably need a lot of modification to work, that's if you can find a schematic thats half way readable :) ) Acrylic Steal Three-Way-Calling, Call Waiting and programmable Call Forwarding on old 4-wire phone systems NO! Aqua Drain the voltage of the FBI lock-in-trace/trap-trace NO! Beige Linemans handset YES Black Allow callers to dial in for free NO Blast Phone microphone amplifier YES Blotto Supposedly shorts every fone out in the immediate area JOKE Blue Take operator control of a line (phone for free) NO Brown Create a party line from 2 phone lines YES Bud Tap into your neighbors phone line YES Chartreuse Use the electricity from your phone line YES Cheese Connect two phones to create a diverter YES Chrome Alter traffic lights NO Clear A telephone pickup coil and a small amp used to make free NO! calls on Fortress Phones Color Line activated telephone recorder YES Copper Cause crosstalk interference on an extender ??? Crimson Hold button YES Dark Re-route outgoing or incoming calls to another phone NO! Dayglo Connect to your neighbors phone line YES Divertor Re-route outgoing or incoming calls to another phone NO! DLOC Create a party line from 2 phone lines YES Gold Dialout router ??? Green Emulate the Coin Collect, Coin Return, and Ringback tones NO! Infinity Remotely activated phone tap YES Jack Touch-Tone key pad YES Light In-use light YES Lunch AM transmitter YES Magenta Connect a remote phone line to another remote phone line NO! Mauve Phone tap without cutting into a line ??? Neon External microphone YES Noise Create line noise YES Olive External ringer YES Party Create a party line from 2 phone lines YES Pearl Tone generator YES Pink Create a party line from 2 phone lines YES Purple Telephone hold button YES Rainbow Kill a trace by putting 120v into the phone line (joke) JOKE Razz Tap into your neighbors phone YES Red Free calls from payphones YES Rock Add music to your phone line YES Scarlet Cause a neighbors phone line to have poor reception YES Static Keep the voltage on a phone line high YES Switch Add hold, indicator lights, conferencing, etc.. ??? Tan Line activated telephone recorder YES Tron Reverse the phase of power to your house, causing your electric meter to run slower ??? TV Cable "See" sound waves on your TV ??? Urine Create a capacitative disturbance between the ring and tip wires in another's telephone headset ??? Violet Keep a payphone from hanging up NO! White Portable DTMF keypad YES Yellow Add an extension phone YES I hope this helps UK phreaks. -=The Firestarter=-