The Infinity Void --[ Phreaking Boxes ]

Following is a list of the popular phreaking boxes and their descriptions. Download the text file associated with each box to learn more details of its function and construction. There are a number of boxes that no longer work with todays technology, but they can be interesting to mess around with. Live and learn.
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PHREAKING BOX PLANS

> `Acrylic Box`	.oOo.	Used to steal Three-Way-Calling, Call Waiting and programmable Call Forwarding on old 4-wire telephone systems.
> `Aero Box`	.oOo.	Make free phones calls from payphones; both local and international.
> `Aqua Box`	.oOo.	Drain the voltage from an FBI lock-in-trace/trap-trace phone call.
> `Beige Box`	.oOo.	This box essentially replicates a lineman's hand-set.
> `Black Box`	.oOo.	Allows the calling party to not be billed for the call they place. In other words, if you have a Black Box, someone calling you will not be charged for the long distance call.
> `Blast Box`	.oOo.	Phone microphone amplifier.
> `Blotto Box`	.oOo.	Supposedly shorts every fone out in the immediate area
> `Blue Box`	.oOo.	The most noble form of phreaking. It interacts with your local Bell System's trunks by utilizing 2600Hz tones for free phone calls. Read for more detail.
> `Brown Box`	.oOo.	Creates a party line from 2 existing phone lines.
> `Bud Box`	.oOo.	Used to tap into your neighbors phone line.
> `Busy Box`	.oOo.	Used to kill the dial-tone on a neighbors telephone, and prevent calls from being received or sent.
> `Chartreuse Box`	.oOo.	Use the electricity from your phone line for other purposes.
> `Cheese Box`	.oOo.	Transforms your phone into a pay phone.
> `Chrome Box`	.oOo.	Allows you to manipulate traffic signals via remote control.
> `Clear Box`	.oOo.	Consists of a telephone pickup coil and a small amp used to make free calls on Fortress Phones.
> `Copper Box`	.oOo.	Causes cross-talk interference on an extender.
> `Crimson Box`	.oOo.	Acts as a 'hold' button for your telephone.
> `Dark Box`	.oOo.	Re-routes outgoing or incoming calls to another phone.
> `Dayglo Box`	.oOo.	Allows you to connect to your neighbors phone line.
> `Ditto Box`	.oOo.	Allows you to eavesdrop and phonetap on a phone line.
> `Divertor Box`	.oOo.	Re-routes outgoing or incoming calls to another phone (similar to a Dark Box).
> `DLOC Box`	.oOo.	Allows you to conference 2 phone lines (other than your own).
> `Gold Box`	.oOo.	Allows you to trace a call, tell if a call is being traced, or change a trace.
> `Green Box`	.oOo.	Allows you to emulate the Coin Collect, Coin Return, and Ringback tones.
> `Jack Box`	.oOo.	A touch-tone key pad.
> `Light Box`	.oOo.	An AM transmitter.
> `Lunch Box`	.oOo.	Used to tap into your neighbors phone line.
> `Magenta Box`	.oOo.	Connects one remote phone line to another remote phone line.
> `Mauve Box`	.oOo.	Allows you to phone tap without cutting into a phone line.
> `Neon Box`	.oOo.	An external microphone.
> `New Gold Box`	.oOo.	A new updated version of the Gold Box.
> `Noise Box`	.oOo.	Creates line noise.
> `Olive Box`	.oOo.	Used as an external ringer.
> `Paisley Box`	.oOo.	Allows you to seize operator lines, have remote control over all TSPS and TOPS consoles, and all other box functions combind in one, including Blue, Beige, and Blotto Boxes.
> `Party Box`	.oOo.	Create a party line from 2 phone lines.
> `Pearl Box`	.oOo.	A tone generator.
> `Pink Box`	.oOo.	Allows you to hook two separate phone lines together to have three way calling with hold on either line.
`>Purple Box`	.oOo.	A telephone hold button.
> `Rainbow Box`	.oOo.	Kills a trace by putting 120v into the phone line.
> `Red Box`	.oOo.	Allows you to make free phone calls from pay phones by generating coin tones.
> `Rock Box`	.oOo.	Adds music to your phone line.
> `Scarlet Box`	.oOo.	Causes a neighbors phone line to have poor reception.
> `Silver Box`	.oOo.	Adds DTMF A, B, C, & D priority tones to your line.
> `Slush Box`	.oOo.	Can be installed at places of business that have the standard multi-line phones. The box will be used on business phone systems like the "Com-Key" or similar phones.
> `Static Box`	.oOo.	Keep the voltage on a phone line high.
> `Switch Box`	.oOo.	Add hold, indicator lights, conferencing, etc.
> `Tan Box`	.oOo.	Line-activated telephone recorder.
> `Tron Box`	.oOo.	Reverse the phase of power to your house, causing your electric meter to run slower.
> `Urine Box`	.oOo.	Create a capacitative disturbance between the ring and tip wires in another's telephone headset.
> `Violet Box`	.oOo.	Keeps a payphone from hanging up.
> `White Box`	.oOo.	A portable DTMF keypad.
> `Yellow Box`	.oOo.	Add an extension phone.

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