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Puck · Greenhorn Joined: 17 Aug 2004 Posts: 8

re: the 13:05 axon

I'm 99.9% positive I've got the location right. Using the payphone-directory/geocode lookup method results in the exact coordinates on ILB and points to a Steak 'n' Shake. However, if you dial the number listed on payphone-directory, you get a recording saying the number is no longer in service. The Steak 'n' Shake has payphones (one inside and one outside), but neither matches that number and neither has been called at the appointed time (i've tried twice). Looks to me like the phones have been changed since payphone-directory got its data.

In short, i think the 13:05 axon is dead.

**Posted:** Sun Aug 29, 2004 10:01 pm

vector

**Posted:** Sun Aug 29, 2004 10:30 pm

Wynn

**Posted:** Sun Aug 29, 2004 10:36 pm

androshandrew · Boot Joined: 29 Aug 2004 Posts: 15 Location: Los Altos

Met someone who told me about these forums at the 16:47 Palo Alto location with no phone. Just adding some stuff. There is a payphone at the Rinconada pool, but it did not ring when the time came. Palo Alto is quite large, but if the theory that the coordinates are right on the city but off by a few places then we need to find out every payphone in Palo Alto. There has to be a way to do this, through phone companies who provide them perhaps. If we get all of those, then we can try and mark them off one by one. I would be willing to try and get out every day to a different one, but there needs to be more people willing to help out. I know a few of you on these forums will probly help, but if we get a few more people and keep branching out we might be able to get this thing done.

**Posted:** Sun Aug 29, 2004 11:56 pm

aliendial

androshandrew there are probably a few thousand payphones in Palo Alto. Random will not do it. If Melissa has not got the coordinates right then she will have to find a better one. Don't waste your time.

**Posted:** Mon Aug 30, 2004 4:16 am

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DC has two coordinates at the Natural History Museum.

6:07 PDT is before the museum opens, so people have focused on street phones - the closest one is broken, no dice at other ones farther away. I think this one should be abandoned.

HOWEVER

Has anyone been trying the 8:15 PDT at the museum? Checked out the phones inside? I haven't heard any reports about these attempts. Help your fellow players eliminate phones that have been covered, guys!

**Posted:** Mon Aug 30, 2004 7:22 am

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TroublingPie · Kilroy Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 2

Re: The cold CT axons

**Posted:** Mon Aug 30, 2004 10:22 am

DeCloah · Greenhorn Joined: 24 Jul 2004 Posts: 5

Where is everyone getting those nifty skymaps?

**Posted:** Mon Aug 30, 2004 12:20 pm

Dorkmaster

by inputting the coordinates into terraserver, you can get an overhead view of the location. Then, by saving the image, and manipulating it (even in a program such as MS paint) you can overlay text or dots or such. Then, voila! A great little overhead map tool to list where (in reality) all the region's payphones reside.

**Posted:** Mon Aug 30, 2004 12:49 pm

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aliendial

Who got the Appalachian Trail axon?

8:27 PDT

(It was the one that was 360K SW of NY, otherwise known as near the Viginia/West Virginia border, outside Leesburg.)

Was there really a phone out there? (mapquest notes that portions of the last 2.3 mile stretch on Appalachian Trail Rd. are unpaved)

**Posted:** Mon Aug 30, 2004 2:31 pm

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crfets · Boot Joined: 26 Aug 2004 Posts: 11 Location: StL

re: the 13:05 axon

**Posted:** Mon Aug 30, 2004 3:58 pm

DeCloah · Greenhorn Joined: 24 Jul 2004 Posts: 5

No news on the 06:47 axon?

**Posted:** Mon Aug 30, 2004 4:02 pm

ThunderRazor · Veteran Joined: 30 Aug 2004 Posts: 96 Location: meido

**Posted:** Mon Aug 30, 2004 4:15 pm

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9:29 PDT code_nothing HOT. This site was previously a dud and was cancelled in round 1 (11:53). The payphone-directory had the wrong phone# and it never rang.

Soo, I posted the correct phone# here and sent the correct # to the payphone-directory (where is was also updated), and today it rang. Rock On

Melissa's watching us guys. Wink

So, if you have axons that are wrong and you can prove it, do so. If there is a next round, it will be an easy "hot".

**Posted:** Tue Aug 31, 2004 11:14 am

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Let's move this to the new axon threads. Make this just about the old set.

http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6171

Locky!

**Posted:** Tue Aug 31, 2004 11:15 am

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