DAMAGE DAMAGE DAMAGE DAMAGE DAMAGE DAMAGE DAMAGE DAMAGE DAMAGE DAMAGE ***********************************************************************8 If you live in an apartment and you want to steal cable TV here is the information you may need. ***********************************************************************8 Before stealing cable, look in some cable outlet boxes where you and your neighbors are hooked up and get a good idea of what everything looks like. Read the following very carefully so you know what you're talking about. Most cable theft requires speed and experience, because you are required to interrupt others service during your Splice Job if splicing is required. Read especially the information about "terminators" and about "splitters". Get some connectors and the tools and some wire to practice on first before attempting to splice coaxial wire. Splicing is a bitch. There are two different size cable TV wires too, so get both size connectors and wires. The barrel connectors and splitters are one size fits all. EQUIPMENT COAXIAL CONNECTORS (both sizes) RG58,RG11 Crimper Tool (if necessary for your style of connectors) BARREL CONNECTORS (just in case) RG58,RG11 wire to practice on, and make short jumpers you can always use on your VCR later on. Vice Grips (to remove terminators with) Wire cutters (big ones if you got 'em) Pocket Knife (SHARP) to cut the insulation with, boyscout knife is perfect BandAids (for when you cut your thumb. Good splicing requires thumb blood) Small Flash light (one you can hold in your teeth)WHY DA YA THINK! Splitters (two way cable TV splitters) DO NOT GET BIGGER THAN A "TWO WAY" Some other shit (I proably forgot something) Maybe a wrench that fits the connectors. They may be tight. Method 1. Find the outdoor box where the cable TV hookups are. Unscrew the terminators (caps that block unused screw-ons) and using your hand, then pliers or wrench, carefully screw YOUR cable wire on. (use vice grips to get off the terminators). Avoid removing other people's wires. The cable company sometimes uses terminators that have threads on both ends. So if it looks like you're plugged in, your wire might just be screwed onto a terminator. Terminators are little shiny things no bigger than a spark plug. To remove ones that are screwed down with the cable company special wrench, just clamp vice grips on it tighter and tighter and tigher till you smash it, then it will usually permit itself to be unscrewed. Terminators are required by law to be on unused signal spighots (tits) to prevent the TV signals from radiating (leaking) out. Usually they require a special wrench to remove/install, but vice grips are the universal wrench for them once you squeeze them flat. They usually take unused cable TV wires for that outlet and screw it on top of the terminator so it looks like you're hooked-up and to keep the moisture out of the connector. Terminators are usually 3 inches of less in length, are gold, or a dull alumium color, and very light in weight. Traps are different. Traps are about 5 inches long, heavy and VERY shiny, and you either add one to get a pay channel,(positive trap) or take one out (negative trap) to get a pay channel.(see advanced cable piracy). You can remove some traps to get special channels, or you can order them in the mail from pirate places to get special channels. The one you order may look different than a cable company one, so don't use in a public access box. They really aren't worth buying. Use a light but deliberate and careful touch with the wires, sometimes just handling the wires may make a bad connection come apart. TIP: If all the spighots are filled up, and you need to install a splitter to get the signal, well remove somebody else from the spithots, and put THEM and somebody else on the splitter, this way you get a better picture, and it will look like they did the dirty work. If somebody else is on a splitter, don't ad another splitter into the line, it may reduce their signal too much. Adding splitters reduces signal strength. Best Bet. Look at the things in various cable TV hookup boxes outside your buildings to get a handle on the territory before attempting the piracy. Method 2. If you live in a highrise building, you may be in luck. Look in your closets. If you find cable TV wires (coaxial wires) cut one clean in two, use a cable TV connector Crimper and put fresh connectors on each cable end and screw a splitter in the line. Get the tools and some wire from radio shack etc before you do this. It requires a knife and some practice to splice cable tv wires quickly. Don't cut your thumb off. The worse that can happen is you can't get the wires spliced back together and the cable company has to come fix them. Method 3. Unscrew the cable tv switch plate from the wall behind the TV and look in there for extra wires. Your neighbors may be in there going the other direction. Method 4. If you live in a Condo. Look for wires running across your basement ceiling. Splice into one with a splitter. If you don't have a cable ready set, get a cheap converter box from a mail order company in the back of RadioElectronics magazine. Avoid buying bootleg descrambling equipment. Just a regular old box, or cable ready set should get you a lot of stuff. *************************************************************************** Note: When splicing cable tv wire, get some "barrel connectors" too. If you splice into a line that is dead (or doesn't have HBO) splice it back together with a barrel connector, and then try cutting into another wire. Do your cutting quickly and cleanly so the people you interrupt from cable TV service don't get around to calling the cable company for a service call. Most folks won't call in for a 3 or 4 minute interruption. Practice PRACTICE PRACTICE SPLICING BEFORE YOU ATTEMPT IT ON A LIVE WIRE. Even a PRO may take up to 3 minutes to do two splices sometimes. *************************************************************************** SPECIAL NOTE: Some Cable TV systems use 2 slightly different size coaxial wires. RG58 and RG11 (I think). Get connectors for both kinds. AND PRACTICE SPLICING ON JUNK CABLE WIRE BEFORE ATTEMPTING TO CUT A LIVE SERVICE WIRE. Radio shack has all you need. Buy all your shit there, including the crimpers. When you're done with your dirty work, you can always take the crimpers back for a refund. Some connectors don't require crimpers. Be sure that the connectors you buy, fit the crimper you buy, AND FIT THE WIRE IN USE in your building. Technical Shit. When you install a splitter in the line, each guy connected to the output side out that splitter, now has 3.5 less Decibels of signal to work with. If you add another splitter, it drops again and again. If you have too little signal you get a shitty picture. Avoid using splitters with more than two output spighots. Splitters that have 1 input and say 6 outputs are actually internally a bunch of splitters put together. If you use a regular 2 way splitter, each guy looses 3.5 Decibels of signal, if you use, a splitter with 4 outputs, well each guy hooked up looses 7 decibels of signal this time. If you split it too much, the people in the building might call to complain to the cable company. HOW TO SPLICE COAXIAL WIRE. Cut the wire clean with big wire cutters. With a sharp pocket knife in one hand and the wire in the other, roll the wire against the knife by twisting the hand holding the wire opposite the knife hand which kind of twists a little too. Twist until your knife hits the center conductor wire on the coaxial wire. Remove all the bullshit by pulling it strait off, and cut the center wire to about a 1/4 inch or so. Then go back about a quarter inch and SLOWLY and carefully roll the knife and wire until you cut off JUST THE OUTTER insulation and then pull it off. Practice until you get it right. You can make tons of VCR chords and shit like that until you get good at it. Oh and this shit is illegal... you didn't think we advocated this type of shit did you??????????????? DAMAGE INCORPORATED KANSAS CITY, MOE APRIL 94 X-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-X Another file downloaded from: The NIRVANAnet(tm) Seven & the Temple of the Screaming Electron Taipan Enigma 510/935-5845 Burn This Flag Zardoz 408/363-9766 realitycheck Poindexter Fortran 510/527-1662 Lies Unlimited Mick Freen 801/278-2699 The New Dork Sublime Biffnix 415/864-DORK The Shrine Rif Raf 206/794-6674 Planet Mirth Simon Jester 510/786-6560 "Raw Data for Raw Nerves" X-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-X