It can get to be fun at times just above or below
28.000 megasickles, when the "HF" sideband pests show up.
I have heard people come on and say that they were the FCC
and tell them to cease operations immediately or they will
be traced and arrested! That was back in the 1980s when
those guys were
M. Bratcher
Jr.
Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2004 9:31 PM
To: Discussion of AM Radio
Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Numbers Stations - NPRs slant
At 10:54 AM 11/13/2004, you wrote:
>I was never in on the busy signal thing, but I did do something
>similar. Telephone numbers that had the suffix be
I used to be a phone phreak in my younger days back when the blue box (for
free long distance called) used to work.
The coin sounds in a payphone is called a red box. Doesn't work on COCOT
(customer owned) payphones because the dialtone you hear is not from Ma
Bell's line but generated by
At 11:26 AM 11/13/2004, you wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I also had a friend who discovered that old pay telephones used to use
> the sound of the falling coins striking a bell to determine whether the
> money was properly deposited in the phone.
Payphones later used frequency-shifted DTM
At 10:54 AM 11/13/2004, you wrote:
I was never in on the busy signal thing, but I did do something
similar. Telephone numbers that had the suffix beginning with 99 were
designated as "official" numbers for internal phone company use. As I
recall, you could dial xxx-9929 and have a friend dial
I'm new on the list. Am I mistaken or is it intended for technical/electronic
topics?
Bill
NPR is pretty mainstream now after the goivernment cut
the legs out from under them.
NPR is pretty mainstream now after the goivernment cut
the legs out from under them.
The corporate sponsor notices on there are starting to
sound more and more like commercials all the time, he he!
Even more so with public TV. Some of those "sponsor notices" are nothing
but downright comm
Funny how NPR and the liberal media freaks mentioned in the story can
take
something like a UTE such as a number station and turn it in to a cult! I
remember when I actually liked listening to NPR. Even 'A Prarie Home
Companion'
has gone sour like a bad compost heap. Bummer.
I don't get
On 13 Nov 2004 at 12:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> By the way - NPR works quite hard to be balanced in its reporting. Check
> out
> the "ombudsman" section of their website.
> http://www.npr.org/yourturn/ombudsman/mission.html
Yep. Considering that they are now largely paid for by
corporate
On 13 Nov 2004 at 12:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> That trick relies upon there being a poorly designed or damaged "busy
> trunk"
> device at the phone co central office. All the busy calls were terminated
> into one unit that put out the busy signal tones, and if it had enough
> cross-talk
>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I also had a friend who discovered that old pay telephones used to use
> the sound of the falling coins striking a bell to determine whether the
> money was properly deposited in the phone.
Payphones later used frequency-shifted DTMF tones to signal the deposit of
Mark Foltarz wrote:
> Funny how NPR and the liberal media freaks mentioned in the story
> can take something like a UTE such as a number station and turn it in to a
> cult! I remember when I actually liked listening to NPR. Even 'A Prarie
Home
> Companion' has gone sour like a bad compost h
Jim wrote:
> I cant remember just how it worked but I think you called a number
> that was bussy and then you listened between the beeps for the voice
> of another person.
That trick relies upon there being a poorly designed or damaged "busy trunk"
device at the phone co central office. All th
I was never in on the busy signal thing, but I did do something
similar. Telephone numbers that had the suffix beginning with 99 were
designated as "official" numbers for internal phone company use. As I
recall, you could dial xxx-9929 and have a friend dial xxx-9930, and
the two of you could
Speaking of cults. did you ever hear of the cult of folks that
communicated over the telephone on a bussy signal? I tried it once
and it worked!!
I cant remember just how it worked but I think you called a number
that was bussy and then you listened between the beeps for the voice
of another per
It seems to me that the cult existed long before NPR ever reported it.
They certainly were not the ones who released a CD of number stations,
nor were they the folks on both sides of the Atlantic who bought the
the things. As noted here by others, people have spent many hours
logging the stat
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