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**Cap'n Crunch Revisited??** By Captain B

Well, not exactly. And, before I go any further, let me say that this  file was
written more for entertainment and nostalgia sake. (Well, It's nostalgia for
those who remember fondly the days when blue boxing could be done with a mere
toy whistle gotten from a box of cereal). As far as the info content goes, you
may not find it particularly useful. But hopefully, you'll find this "file" to
be at least somewhat interesting. Not too long ago, I decided to try to do my
own sort of "toneing" with a whistle trick. Yeah, yeah, I know you can't do it
anymore with SS7's out of band signalling. But, I didn't care. On a whim, I
bought a pack  of Whistle Pops candy from K-mart for the purpose of trying to
send  tones via accoustic coupling. (Throught the handset mouthpiece). Whistle
Pops are basically lollipops shaped like a whistle. I think  this candy has been
around for some time now, but I can't recall 
seeing it sold anywhere but K-mart. The candy costs 99 cents for a pack of 4. It
has a built-in slide whistle. Sliding it out further produces lower pitched
tones, sliding it in produces higher tones. And, for some reason, it even has
the numbers 1-9 marked at successive points on the slide. And, the numbers go in
descending order when sliding it out. I found that when I slid the slide out to
about 6, it recognized the tone as being the # key. Actually, it may have even
been recognized as DTMF A, B, C, or D. On this, I'm not exactly sure. All I know
is that the CO goes from a dial tone, to giving me a fast busy signal. Yeah, I
know, you're probably saying "So #@?$*! what?" Well, I just think It's somewhat
cool and unusual that it's recognized as being any kind of DTMF tone. Also, I
found that you may be able to get the CO equipment to think your sending DTMF
tones by making certain high pitched tones into the mouthpiece with nothing more
than your own vocal cords. It can be somewhat difficult to try doing it that
way. And, it helps if you have  a fairly good ability to hit some pretty high
tones with your voice. Anyway, all of this obviously pales in comparison to
being able to blue box with a toy whistle. But, I guess It's about the closest
thing to it nowadays. Written with acknowledgemets and props to Cap'n Crunch.