THE MWP FILES ------------- File #9 of Issue #2 Summer of '97 ------------- The Ditto Box Made Easy By: SkWeRiLLy(The Elite) of MWP Mad Props to Dr. Ditto, You're the MAN! ***READ FULL FILE BEFORE MAKING*** INTRO- Alright, the ditto box is the shit, but the plans are kind of confusing. Since I made one, and it came out pretty good (I know this from recording fone calls me and my friends made), I thought it would be cool to make a phile that has an easier( and less confusing) way to make it. Materials- Wire(a good amount) wire cutter wire stripper an on/off switch a fone RCA plug a portable tape player w/Record button and a microphone a solder iron solder *that's about it* How To-Now, the first thing you might want to do is put a mute switch in the fone(optional). What you want to do is find a fone with screws holding it together, but if not, it is ok. If it's molded together, just pop the plate around the buttons off, take out the screws, and pry the molding apart with a screwdriver. Now that it is off, find the receiver( the part you talk into); there should be two wires going into it. Choose either one, it doesn't matter. Cut the wire and strip about 1½" off each end. Now here's when the switch comes in. There should be at least 2 prongs on the bottom of the switch. If there are more than 2, just pick any 2 that you want. Now take 2 pieces of wire about 4" in length and strip about 1" off of each end of the wires. Take one wire and solder it to one prong of the switch. Now repeat for the other wire and prong. After you're done with that, connect the two wires to the loose ends in the fone receiver. This should complete the circuit( For any intellectually devoid retard: this disconnects the circuit making it so any person on the other end of the line can't hear you. If you need help, look at diagram #1. * If you want, you can drill a hole in the fone molding so you can stick the switch part out of on/off switch out of it and keep the rest of the switch inside the fone. There is a little nut that you screw onto the switch so it doesn't fall into the fone. Now comes the tricky part, but if you think about it, it is really simple. All it is is a closed circuit with a fone and a recorder. First what you need to do is open up your recorder and trace the two wires going to the microphone back to the motherboard, and find where they are soldered. Then take two pieces of wire(6-8" in length) and strip about 1 ½" off of each end. Now solder one wire to each spot that the other two wires connect to the motherboard.(And if you didn't figure it out, you are gonna have to put a hole in the casing for the two wires to stick out). Now pick up the fone and find the two wires coming and going from the speaker(the part you hear out of). Choose one of the wires and cut it and strip about 1 ½" off of each end of the wire. Now solder a 6-8" wire to each of the loose ends. And yes, you have to put a hole in the casing of the fone so the wires stick out. Now you should have a phone with two wires sticking out and a recorder with two wires sticking out. Now attach one of the set of wires to a male or female part of an RCA plug. Attach the other set of wires to the other part of the RCA plug(an RCA plug is a little white plug with metal prongs inside *you can use any kind of plug you want*). See diagram #2 for help. Uses- Now that you have completed the construction of your box, you should test your box by recording any conversation to make sure all the connections are good. And if you really think, the possibilities are endless. You could do this with your stereo and record calls from your room, you could do this with a portable recorder and run up somebody's fone bill, by calling sex lines from their fone box, and my personal favorite of calling sex lines with "kinky" call backs, tell them to call back in 5 minutes, disconnect and run like a mo fo. ***If your recorder has a radio on it, you will hear a dial tone over the speaker when you pick up the fone.*** ***Disclaimer- I take no responsibility for any type of trouble you get into with your newly created box, this file is actually for your viewing entertainment only.***