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