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 IN ANSWER TO ALL THOSE WHO DON'T KNOW W
HAT AN INFINITY
        TRANSMITTER IS, HERE IS A LITTLE
 HISTORY:
A GUY BY THE NAME OF MANNY MITTLEMAN RAN
 A COMPANY CALLED
THE WIRELESS GUITAR COMPANY LOCATED ON L
IBERTY ST. IN NY.
 ASIDE FROM WIRELESS GUITARS, MANNY ALSO
 BUILT ALL SORTS
 OF ELECTRONIC WIRELESS "BUGS".  ONE ITE
M, THE INFINITY
   TRANSMITTER WAS A DEVICE THAT WAS PLA
CED INSIDE AN
 UNSUSPECTING PERSONS TELEPHONE.  WHEN T
HE PHONE NUMBER
OF THAT TELEPHONE WAS DIALED AND A CERTA
IN NOTE WAS BLOWN
 INTO THE PHONE FROM A HOHNER, KEY-OF-C,
 HARMONICA, THE
 BUGGED PHONE DID NOT RING, AND WHAT'S M
ORE, ENABLED THE
CALLER TO THEN HEAR EVERYTHING SAID IN T
HE ROOM THAT THE 
 PHONE WAS LOCATED IN.  AS LONG AS THE C
ALLER WANTED TO
 STAY ON THE PHONE, ALL WAS OPEN TO HIM 
OR HER.  IF THE
   PHONE WAS LIFTED OFF THE HOOK, THE TR
ANSMITTER WAS
 DISCONECTED AND THE "BUGGED" PARTY RECE
IVED A DIAL TONE
         AS IF NOTHING WAS WRONG WITH TH
E LINE.
  REMEMBER, ALL THIS WAS CONSTRUCTED IN 
THE 1960x'S WHEN
  IC'S WERE NOT AS COMMONPLACE AS THEY A
RE TODAY.  ALSO
 BEAR IN MIND THAT DURING THAT PERIOD IN
 TIME, EVEN THE
   TELEPHONE COMPANY WAS NOT QUITE SURE 
ON HOW WELL OR
             HOW PORTABLE TONE DECODING 
WAS.
                            
 MY HAT IS STILL OFF TO TO MANNY MITTLEM
AN, THE GREATEST
  DEVELOPER OF TELEPHONE GIMMICKERY AND 
BUGGER OF HOTEL
                 ROOMS IN DIVORCE CASES.
                            
  IF THERE IS ANY INTEREST ON BUGGING, I
'LL BE GLAD TO 
        LET YOU KNOW SOME MORE OF MANNY'
S STUFF.
                            
 PS.  MANY GOVERNMENT AGENCY'S WERE SOME
 OF MANNY'S BEST
                       CUSTOMERS.

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               "Loops I've Known and Lov
ed"

     No self-respecting Phone Phreak can
 go through life without
knowing what a loop is, how to use one, 
and the types that are
available.  The loop is a great alternat
e communication medium
that has many potential uses that haven'
t even been tapped yet.
In order to explain what a loop is, it w
ould be helpful if you
would visualize two phone numbers (lines
) just floating around in
the Telco central office.  Now, if you (
and a friend perhaps)
were to call these two numbers at the sa
me time, POOOOFFFF!!!,
you are now connected together.  I hear 
what you're saying out
there ..., "Big deal" or "Why should mot
her bell collect two
MSU's (message units) for one lousy phon
e call!?"  Well ... think
again.  Haven't you ever wanted someone 
to call you back, but
were reluctant to give out your home pho
ne number (like the last
time you tried to get your friends' unli
sted number from the
business office)?  Or how about a collec
t call to your frie.d
waiting on a loop, who will gladly accep
t the charges?  Or better
yet, stumbling a loop that you discover 
has multi-user capability
(for those late-night conference).  Best
 of all is finding a non-
supervised loop that doesn't charge any 
MSU's or tolls to one or
both parties.  Example: many moons ago, 
a loop affectionately
known as 'The 332 Loop' was non-sup on o
ne 'side'.  I had my
friend in California dial the free (non-
sup) side, (212) 332 -
9906 and I dialed the side that charged,
 332-9900.  As you can
see, I was charged one MSU, and my frien
d was charged zilch, for
as long as we wished to talk!!!

     Ahhhh .... have I perked your intre
st yet?  If so, here is
how to find a loop of your very own.  Fi
rst, do all of your loop
searching at NIGHT!  This is because the
 loops serve a genuine
test function which Telco uses during th
e day.  (We don't want to
run into an irate lineman now, do we?)  
To find a loop, having
two phone numbers is a definite plus.  I
f not, get a friend to
dial numbers at his location.  Last reso
rt, try dialing from two
adjacent pay phones.  Now, get your trus
ty white pages, and turn
to the page where it lists Metro NY exch
anges and the number of
MSU's from your exchange.  The idea is t
o get a loop that is only
one MSU from your calling area so you do
n't go bankrupt trying to
find a working one.  So write down in a 
list all of these
exchanges.  The following are common loo
p endings (EXC stands for
the exchange):

Manhatten and The Bronx ---------- EXC -
 9977 & EXC - 9979
Brooklyn and Queens -------------- EXC -
 9900 & EXC - 9906

     Armed with the preceding info, dial
 the tone side of a loop.
This would be the 9906 or 9979 side.  Th
e best thing that could
happen now is that you will be able to h
ear yourself, or friend
through the loop connection.  Eureka, yo
u've found a loop!!!
Unfortunately, this doesn't happen too o
ften.  Here are the more
common possibilites:

1. You can hear through the loop (not mu
ted) but there is a 1/2
   second click every 10 seconds that in
terrupts the audio.  Good
   for backup use, but the %&%$%%! click
 is super annoying.

2. One side of the loop is busy; try it 
again later.

3. The tone disappears, but you cannot h
ear through it (the loop
   is muted, try again in a month or so)
.

4. You get "The number you have reached"
 recording.  No more
   loop in that exchange, go on to next.

     Most loops fall into catagory #3, b
ut they do become unmuted
from time to time.  Once you have found 
a loop, its uses are
only limited to your imagination.  If yo
u discover any novel uses
for loop lines, I am always willing to l
earn, so leave them for
me here on *MOM*.

                                   Happy
 Looping
Official Phreddy Loop -------(212) 452 -
 9900, 9906
                                  Great 
for data!

Info on the '1633' loops by special requ
est only!!!!!!!



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The preceding article was duplicated fro
m one posted on Modem
Over Manhatten (MOM).  MOM is no longer 
in operation, however
was one of the first bulletin boards (af
ter 8BBS) to support
phreeking.   The original author of this
 article was the one and
only Phred Phreek.  Note that the commen
ts at the end of the
article no longer apply, as this article
 was written in 1981, and
Phred Phreek has not been heard of since
 MOM went down.


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HERE ARE SOME NEW LOOPS. ALL ARE IN THE 
212 AREA. ON ANY GIVEN
DAY OR NITE SEVERAL MAY BE BUSY,(MORE OF
TEN CASUAL USERS THAN 
TELCO PERSONNEL.) AND ON ANY GIVEN DAY O
R NITE SEVERAL MAY BE 
INOPERATIVE. IT ALL DEPENDS ON WHETHER T
ELCO MAINTENANCE PERSONELL
REMEMBER TO 'THROW THE KEY' WHEN THEYRE 
DONE LINE TESTING. IF THEY REMEMBER TO
TO TURN A LINE 'OFF', THEN IT'LL REMAIN 
OFF TILL THE NEXT MAINTENANCE TECH. F
FORGETS TO TURN IT OFF AFTER USING IT.  
DO NOT ASSUME THESE ARE FRREE CALLS. UNLE
SS THE #'S ARE IN YOUR
UNLESS THE #'S ARE IN YOUR PRIMARY CALLI
NG AREA,YOU ARE BILLED
EITHER MSU'S OR TOLL UNITS DEPENDING UPO
N DISTANCE. NEVERTHELESS
LOOPS ARE LOTS OF FUN,AND YOU CAN OFTEN 
MEET NEW PEOPLE ON THEM.
ESPECIALLY LATE ON WEEKEND NITES. ALSO, 
LATE ON WEEKEND NITES
YOU WILL FIND SEVERAL OF THE LOOPS BEING
 USED BY AM, FM OR SHORTWAVE
PIRATE RADIO STATIONS FOR CALL IN LINES.
 MOST OF THESE STATIONS
ARE IN THE N.Y. AREA, BUT THE REMAINDER 
ARE ALL OVER THE COUNTRY.
212 LOOPS REMAIN THE BEST KNOWN IN THE P
IRATE RADIO WORLD,AND
SO ARE USED BY PIRATES EVERYWHERE.  NOW.
..HERE GOES WITH THE LOOPS:
   212-529-9900/9906
   212-283-9977/9979
   212-352-9900-9906
   212-220-9977/9979
   212-365-9977/9979
   212-562-9977/9979
   212-982-9977/9979
   212-986-9977/9979
---------------------*
THE LOWER NUMBER IS THE ONE WITH THE SQU
EAL. IT SQUEALS (SINGING
SWITCH) TILL SOMEONE DIALS THE OTHER NUM
BER IN THE PAIR. THEN 
THE SQUEAL DIES AND YOURE CONNECTED. NOE
 THE HIGHER NUMBER NEVER
DOES SQUEAL, EVEN IF THE OTHER PART OF T
HE PAIR IS UNUSED. SO YOU
HAVE TO KINDA GUESS AT WHEN SOMEONE IS S
WITCHED IN AFTER DIALING.
LISTEN FOR THE CLICKS,THATLL TELL YOU. T
HE 982 AND 986 #'S ARE KINDA
WIERD. NORMALLY IF YOU PARK ON A LOOP, Y
OU WILL HEAR WHOEVERCALLS THE
OTHER HALF,AND WHEN THEYRE DONE,THE NEXT
 CALLER(IF ANY) WILL BE QUEUED
IN, ONE AFTER THE OTHER. NOW ON THE 982 
AND 986, YOU SOMETIMES CANT
GET ANY MORE CALLERS AFTER THE FIRST. FU
RTHERMORE, IF YOU PARK ON
THESE TWO LOOPS AND THE OTHER END REMAIN
S UNCALLED FOR 4 MINUTES,
YOU MAY BE AUTOMATICALLY DISCONNECTED. Y
ET THESE LOOPS ARE BETTER THAN NOTHING
NG-ESP. ON WEEKENDS WHEN ALL OTHER LOOPS
 ARE BUSY.......
IF ANY OF YOU HAVE LOOPS IN OTHER AREA C
ODES, PLEASE LEAVE THEM,
EITHER IN BULL. OR LV. A MESSAGE FOR DAR
K PRIEST. THANKING YOU 
IN ADVANCE, AND ENJOY YOUR LOOPS.
   *******DARK PRIEST********
   *******DARK FOREST*********
   ********DARK DAY***********
   ******END*********

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