#### 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