Phone Trips var woopra_id = '2055160395';  phone trippers">Phone Trips All recordings on this page are copyrighted by their respective authors and are presented in RealAudio format. If you have a modernweb browser, you probably have all the software you need to play them. Simply click on one of these links and it should start playing in severalseconds. If they don't work, visit www.real.comto install the RealOne Player. Warning: the Real page will try very hard to get you to download the pay version, which costs $9.95 PER MONTH. There is also a free versionthat they hide away, so look carefully.From the RealOne player's menu bar click Tools, then Choose Visualization. Choose the one called "Fire" and watch its reaction to the phone noises.Scroll down past the list of recordings for anexplanation of what this is all about.Des Moines, Washington (best examples of panelpulsing)Aberdeen, Washington (February, 1968)Redmond, Washington (February, 1968)Western Washington, part 1 (April, 1968)Western Washington, part 2 (probably 1968)Western Washington, part3 (June, 1968)Eastern Washington (October, 1968)West Los Angeles (December, 1968)Technical discussion from my house (1968)Oregon, part 1 (November, 1969)Oregon, part 2 (November, 1969)San Francisco Bay Area (December, 1969)Al Bernay and Mark Bernay joking around inBerkeley (December, 1969)Southern California, portions by Al BernayLas Vegas, part 1 (December, 1969)Las Vegas, part 2, technicaldetails of rotary switching (December, 1969)Eastern Washington with Chris Bernay (May,1970)Eastern Washington with Chris Bernay (August,1970)Eastern Washington and Western Idaho (September,1970)Everett, Washington (around 1970)Towns east of Chehalis, Washington (June,1971)Peter Pimple's house, although you would neverknow it I ran a telephone line for many years where the public could dial in and listen to recordings, which I would change every few days. Sometimes I would play phone trip recordings like the above, sometimes educational lectures, sometimes skits that my friends and I would create, sometimes excerpts from commercial humor records. The following are samples. Reverend Mark Bernay explains the true nature of the universe (Late 1960's) Al Bernay demonstrates dialing from payphones in Europe(my memory is that he did not have a tape recorder on his trip and faked the sounds when he got home) Me and my friends weren't the only ones who went on phone trips. Here'sanother recording with telephone sounds from the Seattle area, and alsorecordings from Great Britain. AndrewEmmerson from London corresponded withsomeone in Seattle 30 years ago and they mailed tapes to each other with narratedtelephone sounds from their respective cities. Here is the tape hereceived from the guy in Seattle, but he forgot the name. If anyone canidentify this voice, please send emailand let me know. Following that is Andrew's tape. Mystery person from Seattle narrating phone sounds (around 1971) Telephone sounds in Great Britain, part 1 (November, 1971) Telephone sounds in Great Britain, part 2 (November, 1971) Phone Tripper and phone phreak Evan Doorbell tells the story about how he got interested in phones and recording phone sounds. (You can download higher quality versions of Evan's recordings to your hard drive from theGroup Bell download page.)How Evan Doorbell became a Phone Phreak, part 1How Evan Doorbell became a Phone Phreak, part 2How Evan Doorbell became a Phone Phreak, part 3: Atlanta in Sept., 1970How Evan Doorbell became a Phone Phreak, part 4How Evan Doorbell became a Phone Phreak,part 5How Evan Doorbell became a Phone Phreak,part 6 (More parts eventually.)The following recordings of phone trips and switching sounds were contributedby Evan Doorbell. He has many more, and I hope to have some of them on here shortly.Network Sounds of the 70's, part 1 (1971-1981)Network Sounds of the 70's, part 2 (1976-1981)Bell System #1 Step in downtown Raleigh NC, part1 (Sept., 1979)Bell System #1 Step in downtown Raleigh NC, part2 (Sept., 1979)Bell System #1 Step in downtown Raleigh NC, part3 (Sept., 1979)Bell System #1 Step in downtown Raleigh NC, part4 (Sept., 1979)NX-1 Crossbar in Greenville NC, part 1 (June,1974) NX-1 Crossbar in Greenville NC, part 2 (June,1974) NX-1 Crossbar in Greenville NC, part 3 (June,1974) So. California Phone Trips part 1: Van Nuys #5 Crossbar (Summer, 1974)So. California Phone Trips part 2: Misc. Van Nuys Phun Stuff (Summer, 1974)So. California Phone Trips part 3: GTE Step in Indio (Summer, 1974)GEdney 9 Panel in Brooklyn NY, part 1(November, 1977)GEdney 9 Panel in Brooklyn NY, part 2(November, 1977)GEdney 9 Panel in Brooklyn NY, part 3(November, 1977) (More parts eventually.)NEptune 4 #1 Crossbar in Belle Harbor, Queens:Local Routings, part 1 (May, 1974)#5 Crossbar in Fredericksburg VA, (August,1976)Stromberg-Carlson ESC in Chancellor VA,(August, 1976)Step With Directors: Elizabeth City NC Areapart 1 (March, 1977)Step With Directors: Elizabeth City NC Areapart 2 (March, 1977)STACKING local offices: Elizabeth City NC Areapart 3 (Summer, 1978)Step With Directors, More Details: ElizabethCity NC Area part 4 (March, 1977)Step With Directors, A Closer C.O.: Elizabeth City NC Areapart 5 (March, 1977)Busy signals and ring sounds around the U.S.(1971)Supplemental Sounds of Step, part 1 (1974,'77,'80)Supplemental Sounds of Step, part 2, Atlanta's TRinity office (1979) Supplemental Sounds of Step, part 3, Atlanta's TRinity office (1979) Permanent Signal Recordings (1971-1983)Panel Pulsing Lover's Tape (1977)Maryland Phone Trips, part 1 (Fall, 1974)Maryland Phone Trips, part 2 (Fall, 1974)Maryland Phone Trips, part 3: The Only Independent (August, 1976)Toll Station in Shenandoah National Park VA,(August, 1976)Tidewater Virginia Phone Trips, part 1: Barely Recordable Places (August, 1976)Tidewater Virginia Phone Trips, part 2:Step in Colonial Beach (August, 1976)Tidewater Virginia Phone Trips, part 3:NX2 in Ladysmith (August, 1977)Tidewater Virginia Phone Trips, part 4:Step in Bowling Green (Summer, 1978)Tidewater Virginia Phone Trips, part 5:NX2 in Hague (August, 1976)Local Coin Control in the 1970s(1975-1978, 2001)Step in Harrisonburg VA, part 1(August, 1976)Step in Harrisonburg VA, part 2(August, 1976) (Includes "Local Carrier Sounds" Demo, 1974-1986)Step Tributaries of Harrisonburg VA,part 1 (August, 1976)Step Tributaries of Harrisonburg VA,part 2 (August, 1976)Independent Steps in Gettysburg PA, Luray VA, and South Hill VA, including Callback Circuit Phreaking (August, 1976, April, 1975)NX1 Crossbar in New Oxford PA(August, 1976)All Relay system in Pinetown NC(March, 1977) Carolina Tel. part 1: Step with ESS tones inWashington NC (March, 1977)Carolina Tel. part 2: Step in Belhaven NC (March, 1977) Carolina Tel. part 3: LD Calls fromGreenville NX1 (March, 1977)Carolina Tel. part 4: NX1-E in Vanceboro NC(March, 1977)Carolina Tel. part 5: Step with "GTE" ring in Williamston NC(March, 1977)Carolina Tel. part 6: Step with no E.A.S. in Windsor NC(March, 1977)Carolina Tel. part 7: Step homing on an NX1in Farmville NC (March, 1977) ***NEW! REMASTERED & REVISED*** Carolina Tel. part 8: Step C.D.O. inStantonsburg NC (March, 1977)Carolina Tel. part 9: A Larger Step in Wilson NC(March, 1977)Two Faces of Carolina Telephone:Steps in Kenly and Clayton NC, part 1 (March, 1977)Two Faces of Carolina Telephone: Steps in Kenly and Clayton NC, part 2 (March, 1977)"Classic" XY Step in Fuquay-Varina NC, part 1(March, 1977)"Classic" XY Step in Fuquay-Varina NC, part 2(March, 1977)XY Step (non-typical) in Sanford NC(March, 1977)Typical XY Steps in Goldston & Bonlee NC, part 1(March, 1977) (Includes "Step is Weird" Demonstration from Bell Step CDO in Sperryville VA, May, 1975)Typical XY Steps in Goldston & Bonlee NC, part 2(March, 1977)NX1 in Siler City NC via Motel PBX(March, 1977) (Siler City Step coming eventually)Step-ESS Symbiosis in Smyrna GA, part 1(October, 1977)Step-ESS Symbiosis in Smyrna GA, part 2(October, 1977)Step-ESS Symbiosis in Smyrna GA, part 3(October, 1977)Step-ESS Symbiosis in Smyrna GA, part 4(October, 1977) ***NEW***Step-ESS Symbiosis in Smyrna GA, part 5(October, 1977) ***NEW***CX-1000 All Relay System in Benson VT(1974, 1976, Summer, 1978)Step in Nantes Quebec, part 1 (August, 2001)Step in Nantes Quebec, part 2 (August, 2001)Step in Nantes Quebec, part 3 Warning: LOTS of technobabble. (August, 2001)Some LD calls from coin and home phones in Wellfleet, MA (July, 1974)The Sounds of Long Distance, IntroductionThe Sounds of Long Distance, pgm. 1: Calls to Centralized Intercept (February 1977, June 1976)The Sounds of Long Distance, pgm. 2: The Hempstead-White Plains Route (June 1976)The Sounds of Long Distance, pgm. 3: Anecdotes, Centralized Intercept, #5 Crossbar (February 1977, June 1976)The Sounds of Long Distance, pgm. 4: An Assortments of Calls via Hempstead Tandem 3 (June 1976)The Sounds of Long Distance, pgm. 5: Centralized Intercept Calls via New York 7 (February 1977)The Sounds of Long Distance, pgm. 6: Calls to NY State's 315 NPA(Summer 1977)The Sounds of Long Distance, pgm. 7: More calls to NY State's 315 NPA(Summer 1977)The Sounds of Long Distance, pgm. 8: DDD from Panel, 4M Dialpulsing(1977)The Sounds of Long Distance, pgm. 9: DDD from #1 Crossbar, ANI Failures, NX1 Sounds(1974-1977)The Sounds of Long Distance, pgm. 10: Calls to -- and through -- NX1's (1974-1976)The Sounds of Long Distance, pgm. 11: Centralized Intercept, NX1 Test Board, NX1 Tandem calls (1974-1976)The Sounds of Long Distance, pgm. 12: More NX1's, Receiving a Stacked Call, Hempstead-White Plains Route (1974-1977)The Sounds of Long Distance, pgm. 13: DDD Demo Recordings (1971-1975),SP1 Tandems (1976)The Sounds of Long Distance, pgm. 14: SP1's, SFing Augusta Step Tandem (1976-77)The Sounds of Long Distance, pgm. 15: 4M & XBT Audible Dialpulsing, Calling France,Forced Reroutes (1974-1982) (More parts coming eventually.) Evan Doorbell made recordings about phone phreaking and other phun stuff:Dialing Those Mysterious "1xx" and "0xx" Codes (1974-1980)Dialing the "1xx" Codes from Greenville NC Coin Phones, part 1 (1978,1980)Dialing the "1xx" Codes from Greenville NC Coin Phones, part 2 (1978,1980)Classic Tandem Stacking (January, 1975)Two Early Voice Recognition Systems (1972-74, 1980)A HiFi 914 Routings tape, part 1 (December, 1975)A HiFi 914 Routings tape, part 2 (1975) Evan Doorbell made recordings of and about several telephone conference lines:Phreaks from Esquire article on"052" conference, part 1 (January, 1972)Phreaks from Esquire article on"052" conference, part 2 (January, 1972)Phreaks and Folks on Hempstead NY Vacant Code Conference, part 1 (June, 1971)Phreaks and Folks on Hempstead NY Vacant Code Conference, part 2 (June, 1971)Phreaks and Folks on Hempstead NY Vacant Code Conference, part 3 (December, 1971)"311" and Other Spontaneous Conferences (1971-86)East Lake Audichron Conference in Decatur GA, part 1 (February, 1978)471 Conference in Far Rockaway, NY (1974)Bruce from New York's story of The 790Conference (warning: contains graphic material) Evan Doorbell was a member of Group Bell. They made the famous "DomTuffy" tapes in 1973, based upon a real telco security agent they hadencountered: Tom Duffy. They decided that in retrospect the real Mr. Tuffy was adecent guy who was just doing his job. He wasn't out to ruinanyone's life; he just wanted the phone company to get its "revenue", about which he was genuinely enthusiastic.Click on the name of the file to play the lower quality version meant formodem users. If you have a DSL line, cable modem, or other high-speedaccess, click on the 64kb link. ALLUSERS can download the higher-quality versions to their hard drive from the GroupBell download page.Dom Tuffy calls his office 64kbDom Tuffy calls Bell System prospects 64kbDom Tuffy calls the DeFuniac TelephoneCompany 64kbDom Tuffy busts Trace Street 64kb Here is a recording made in 1972 of a phone conversation between the young EvanDoorbell and the real Tom Duffy, with a narration before and afterexplaining why the Dom Tuffy recordings were made.Conversation with Tom Duffy (1972) Group Bell made other entertainment tapes; here are two samples.Group Bell's Salute to Operators (1974/1978)The "Voomph" Tape (1974) Listen to ALL of the above Group Bell tapes first to get a feel forEvan Doorbell's sense of humor, then listen to: Inside Jokes: Les' Incoming Messages (1978-1982) Evan Doorbell and friends made tapes of other people's joke lines in Southern California: ZZZZZZ Part 1 (1971-1974) ZZZZZZ Part 2 (1971-1974) ZZZZZZ Part 3 (1974-1976) The Main Line (Summer, 1974) Al Bernay Comment Tape Excerpts (July, 1976) Phone Tripper Frank Wilsey visited the VintageTelephone Equipment Museum in Seattle, WA and the NewEngland Museum of Telephony in North Ellsworth, Maine. Both museumshave complete, fully-restored, fully-functional, electromechanical switchingmachines just like the ones you hear in the phonetrip tapes above. You really mustvisit them to see and use the equipment instead of just listening to old tapes. Frankmade tapes on the history of telephone switching using sounds he recordedinside the museums as examples.Vintage Telephone Equipment Museum (August, 2000) Pictures of this museum taken by Ed Greenberg Pictures of the Roseville Telephone Museum taken by Ed GreenbergNew England Museum of Telephony (August, 2000) Phone tripper Joseph G. Molter (aka JeepMan), emailjmolter@sbcglobal.net, took a trip to La Crosse, IN and made a recording from a payphone and from inside the switchroom.Step by step in La Crosse, IN (September,1998)Inside the step by step switchroom in LaCrosse, IN (September, 1998) Phone tripper Trace McCall sent us a recording he made inside a step by step central office, and he promised to send us more. The pulse repeating followed by the loud chattering was a CAMA trunk MF sending to the Frederick Tandem office. At the beginning of the segment, in the background you can make out a "snoring" sound. That's a linefinder group running a switchman-started test.Inside a Bell 355A step CDO in Brunswick, Md (March,1984) The following are other people's telephone recordings that I dialed andrecorded at various times.Let Freedom Ring about the Communist threatfrom the Beatles (March, 1969)Let Freedom Ring about the proper role forwomen (December, 1969)Pacific Telephone Newsline, August 29, 1968(allow customer-owned equipment)Pacific Northwest Bell Newsline, March 20, 1969(touch tone banking - in 1969!)Pacific Northwest Bell Newsline, March 11, 1970(1932 recording of Mr. Watson) (NPR has a longer and clearerrecording of Mr. Watson)Comic Book News, San Francisco,final recording (November, 1972)Kids talking over soft recording during phonestrike OK, so what are these recordings all about? Why are they here?Greetings fellow web trippers, my phone phreak handle is Mark Bernayand 35 years ago I used to go on phone trips. Yes, it's true: just likethe people in the picture at the top, I would drive around to small townsprimarily for the purpose of playing with their payphones. I oftenbrought along my trusty Craig 212 portable 3-inch reel-to-reel taperecorder (this was before cassettes were popular) to record the phonenoises and narrate information about them for my friends. I don't go onphone trips anymore and you are probably thinking that this is because Igrew up, but no, I never did. The reason I stopped phone tripping is thatall phones are about the same all over the country nowadays and they arereally boring. This picture shows my recording equipment around 1968, which I used to edit these tapes and prepare them for playing on a public phone number. My current desk is just as messy, but with PC's instead of reel-to-reel tape recorders. I first started playing with phones -- not talking on them, but playingwith the switching systems and the network -- when I was a teenagergrowing up in Los Angeles. My family moved from Pacific Telephone (nowPacific Bell) territory to General Telephone. I noticed big differencesin the noises the phone made as the dial tone came on, in between digitsas numbers were dialed, after dialing and the call was switching through,etc. I did a lot of reading about telephone switching systems and visitedmany phone company switchrooms to learn what was going on.I moved from Los Angeles to Seattle in 1968. Seattle itself hadcompletely different telephone switching systems than either PacificTelephone or General Telephone in Los Angeles. When I started drivingaround the Seattle area I noticed that many of the little towns had theirown independent phone companies and every one had different equipment. Myphone phreak friends in Los Angeles (and later in Seattle) wanted to hearthis variety of phone noises I was telling them about, so I tape recordedby holding the microphone of the recorder against the earphones of thepayphones. (I was aware of telephone pickup coils, but they picked up toomuch hum from the fluorescent lights in payphones.)Unfortunately I wasn't into photography at the time these tapes weremade and I have no pictures of myself on a phone trip. I got the photoat the top from a friend who also went on phone trips, but none of the people in that picture took part in these recordings. The gentleman at the payphone is famous and you probably heard of him.Please send your comments and questions tophonetrips@wideweb.comThere have beenERROR: ./counttrip.cgi: counter read in was zeroaccesses to this page. |
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