This was literally just "because I can" entertainment. I'm stationed up in Thule, Greenland and ripped an old rotary phone out of an abandoned radar building up here.
I drug the thing down to my place on main base and proceeded to splice it into a regular RJ-11 jack (yes I know this is easy to do with parts stateside but I don't have them up here). The easiest option was just to open up the phone and connect red to red and green to green. Phone wiring colors haven't changed in decades.
On first attempt I got a dial tone and could receive calls...but I didn't hear the phone ring. I found there is a special selector inside Western Electric 500 phones that dictates the ring power and moving it fixed the ring.
The final issue was calling....pulse dialing seems to be dead here (prolly has been for ages) so I grabbed a tone generator app on my cell phone and successfully dialed numbers using the app by holding it up to the receiver and dialing.
>stationed
>military
Hang yourself with the phone cord instead of posting here.
>having to use an tone generator app and not phreaking like a true pussy slayer
>>54556745
why?
PS: Pic is of the building I got the phone from.
>>54556812
>phreaking
I'd have loved to have built my own blue box but I just don't have the parts here.
How do you drug a phone?
>>54556698
>connected a phone to a phone jack
>able to make a phone call
>turned on ringer by turning it on
I don't get why you consider this some kind of achievement. The only interesting thing you did was send dial tones through a rotary phone.
>>54557029
Mostly because I made a 56 year old phone work again after what I am assuming is 25 years of inactivity exposed to arctic temps (they abandoned the old buildings in roughly 1988). Otherwise it means nothing....aside that I had fun doing it. Is there some fault in that?
>>54556698
Very cool
>>54557117
That phone was built back when they built things to last, anon. It would probably work just as well if you had left it in there 50 more years as long as the moisture didn't get to it.
You guys I came home today and found my phone was yanked out of the walls while I was at work. Dipshit didn't take anything else, just my goddamned phone. If you happen to see it, please let me know. It as a red sticker on the handle.
>>54556952
>PPE warning
What kind of base are you stationed at?
>>54557578
That's rad warning because radar array.
>>54557578
This is the radar now in its phased array state.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballistic_Missile_Early_Warning_System
![900x900px-LL-b31690bd_Nofunallowedrobot[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/LgsrXsm.jpg "900x900px-LL-b31690bd_Nofunallowedrobot[1].jpg")
>>54557117
>I had fun doing it. Is there some fault in that?
Yes. Stop having fun. That's not ok.
>>54557640
NO
Noice. Is there more old tech you can get running at the radar?
>>54556698
>military
literally, kill yourself please
>>54557704
>>54556745
So many edgelords here on /g/
![1024px-Phone_Losers_of_America_logo.svg[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/cLX1UN0.png "1024px-Phone_Losers_of_America_logo.svg[1].png")
>>54557737
Yea really. Can you take a better picture of the phone from the top? I can't really read the sticker.
>>54557698
Working on that. There is an old PA system that is now defunct. Part of it is the original GE system powered by tube amps....and an Altec Lansing 1590e solid state system that replaced it. Both are now bypassed. I couldn't get the tube system online unfortunately, but I am working on the Altec amp. I was able to power it a few days ago. Wiring is another story since it doesn't use any common connections. I think I understand the physical connections so I am trying to source some RCA wires to rig an input.
![4GEGosh[1].gif](https://i.imgur.com/Biq0oJz.gif "4GEGosh[1].gif")
>>54557774
Seriously. If your military how is no one stopping you from tearing up the place?
>>54557768
Happy?
>>54557835
The abandoned stuff? Nobody really cares what we rip out of it.
>>54557774
>tube amp
Dude check what kind of tubes are in there, certains tubes sell for $50+ a piece on ebay
that's pretty neat op
>>54557877
I already did. I saved em as I have some of my own tube amps that use the smaller ones ;)
>>54557869
>Happy?
Very. Goodluck with your project.
Daily reminder that "because I can" means "because I'm an autistic unique snowflake".
>>54556698
Interesting thread.
Just don't give attention to these sad NEETs itt who have never even seen anything related to military.
>>54557905
wow nice
>>54557921
Don't forget "high functioning" autistic snowflake.
Also correction...I should have said RCA not GE. Here is what is left of one of the abandoned racks.
>>54557555
kek
>>54558006
This is awesome. You should submit it to 2600.
>>54557117
Before my grandma died a couple years ago, she had a phone that was a lot older than that, similar to >pic related, and it still worked fine.
It's not like it has tiny electronics that are going to overheat from all the accumulated dust and explode. Hell, it might not have even had any electronic components inside.
>>54558174
>This is awesome. You should submit it to_____
>using a word on the NSA's public watch list
Enjoy getting b& m8
http://www.businessinsider.com/nsa-prism-keywords-for-domestic-spying-2013-6
>>54558237
boy do I love me some artichoke
>>54558237
Unfair. 2600 is a local postcode. I'm 2620.
>>54558237
Good luck. I am behind over 9k boxxies.
>>54558237
>b&
& is in that list too, m8
>>54557117
Not going to shit on you but I'm actually not really surprised it still works, the cold temps and presumably dry climate probably preserved it pretty well.
Anything else worth mentioning in the abandoned building? Sounds like it's '50sish but maybe you could find some other cool gear in there.
>>54558237
>posted on the internet's favorite CP depot
>>>/pol/
>>54558006
That's neat, fucking immaculate too. I bet there's some collectors around that would love to get their hands on that shit.
>>54558317
>>>/reddit/
