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#### PHRACK PRESENTS ISSUE 16 ####
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^*^*^*^Phrack World News, Part 3^*^*^*^
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**** File 10 of 12 ****
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[Ed's Note: Certain names have been change in the article to protect the
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author]
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The Flight of The Mad Phone-Man's BBS to a Friendly Foreign Country
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Using my knowledge that the pigs grab your computer when they bust
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you,I got real worried about losing a BIG investment I've got in my IBM. I
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decide there's a better way.... Move it! But where? Where's safe from the
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PhBI? Well in the old days, to escape the draft, you went to Canada, why not
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expatriate my board.... Well the costs of a line are very high, let's see
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what's available elsewhere.
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One afternoon, I'm working at a local hospital,(one I do telecom work
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for) and I ask the comm mgr if they have any links to Canada? He says why
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yes, we have an inter-medical link over a 23ghz microwave into the city just
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across the border. I ask to see the equipment. WOW! My dreams come true,
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it's a D4 bank (Rockwell) and it's only got 4 channel cards in it. Now, being
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a "nice" guy, I offer to do maintenance on this equipment if he would let me
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put up another channel...he agrees. The plot thickens.
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I've got a satellite office for a business near the hospital on the
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other side, I quickly call up good ole Bell Canada, and have them run a 2 wire
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line from the equipment room to my office. Now the only thing to get is a
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couple of cards to plug into the MUX to put me on the air.
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A 2 wire E&M card goes for bout $319, and I'd need two. Ilook around
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the state, and find one bad one in Rochester.... I'm on my way that afternoon
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via motorcycle. The card is mine, and the only thing I can find wrong is a
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bad voltage regulator. I stop by the Rockwell office in suburban Rochester
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and exchange the card, while I'm there, I buy a second one (Yeah, on my card)
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and drive home.... by 9pm that night the circuit is up, and we are on the air.
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Results- Very good line, no noise, can be converted with another card
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for a modest fee if I want the bandwidth. So that's the story of how the
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board went to a "friendly foreign country."
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The Mad Phone-Man
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