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[cubicgarden]

All the phones on the underground station are modern BT payphones. The screen would tell you if there was a call coming in on top of the ringing sound.

I tested 2 of them early yesterday and it rang and someone from the public picked it up. For those going today and tomorrow. Please note your mobile will not work in the station.

Going by the coord's the payphones in the station has to be the right ones. They sit in the north eastern part of the station just below where the lights are. Between the mens toilet entrance which leads to trocodero? and the womans tolilet entrance which leads to soho. Pretty much bang on the coords, if you remove the road above

Yes my mistake the gallery is - http://adrenalin-online.demon.co.uk/pixory/pxapplication

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[cubicgarden]

Excellent, been meaning to take my wife to that movie for a while now. 2 in the morning though!

[Malrog]

Thanks for all the responses & info guys.

Ariock: I have tested picking up the phones a little after the supposed time, but that was on the old coordinates. However, I've also noticed that when calling the phone it display's the words "Incoming Call" on the screen, so hopefully that would appear even if the phone didn't ring *shrug*

OK, I need to know if anyone else will be in London today (I can't do this by myself! I will be getting into Paddington station at 16:11 and will then make my way to Piccadilly circus, which I will scout out. So if anyone wants to meet up with me, either post in this thread or PM me.

Alternatively, if I'm the only person going today, is it even worth my while going? Should I wait til a day when more people are going, so we can cover all the necessary phones? Reason I ask is that I can't keep going into London every evening, cos that's spending money I just don't have!

Come on the London Axonators!

- Malrog

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[Adrian]

Actually, I'm not entirely sure whether I can make it or not today... hope it goes well anyway!

[Flidget Jerome]

The first, second and thirteenth phones check out as duds. We lost control of the sixth and fourth so weren't able to check those.

I won't be able to go back tomorrow, but hopefully someone else will and
find the phone, because this is getting really exhausting.

[edit]The axon hunting team was just Malrog and me today. After we finished with the phones we went up to the surface to check how far the phones were from the axon point.

Turns out they're not as spot-on as the Dean Street phones, but they're only about 10, 15 metres east, and still a lot closer than anything else.[/edit]

[lank, the boy wonder]

unlucky today guys,
sorry i couldn't make it today i had pressing matters to attend to.
this is starting to seem slightly depressing. maybe toorrow or whenever you should try and make sure that no-one uses the phones by use of force i.e. a large hammer maybe or crowd control gear?
so whos going to be there tomorrow? i can't make it this week cause of college but i'll prob make it for the saturday if it takes us that long!!!!
maybe they just can't be arsed and just had a horlicks instead?

[Malrog]

*le sigh*

No ringing phones again! One more waste of time and money. I'm getting heartily sick of the whole thing. Why the did the PMs have to pick such a stupidly busy place for the Axon? I mean, seriously, it's probably the busiest part of the busiest city in the whole flippin' country! Suffice to say, I've had enough of it all, and I won't be going back. In the words of Eminem, that !!!

Now that I've got the rant over, though I'm still incredibly pissed, here are the facts.

Above ground I did a little bit of scouting around, and found a pair of phones in black phone boxes outside the Pizza Hut at the top of Regent Street (that's where Regent St goes south out of Piccadilly Circus). These are the closes above-ground phones to the GPS coordinates, but we all know that black phone boxes don't take incoming calls. I tested this, and found that while my mobile seemed to think it was making a call, the payphone didn't ring, and when I picked it up I couldn't hear myself in it, but then when I hung up I could hear that through my mobile. Weird and freaky and quite mysterious *wiggles fingers*
The only other above-ground phones I could find were a pair of red phone boxes at the beginning of Shaftesbury Avenue, but these weren't on the coordinates either. It may be worth investigating these though *shrug*

So, below ground, in the tube station, the only phones I could find were the bank of 14 mentioned previously, and even these are not at the GPs points (as far as I could tell) They were maybe 30 or 40 meters away. It seemed to me that the GPS point was directing us to the opposite side of the big ticket hall there. Anyway, I waited, and Flidget showed up, so there were two of us to man 14 phones in the busiest place in the country - yeh right! I managed to look imposing enough to stop anyone from using phones 1 and 2, (I've no idea how I managed that, I just did!) but neither of them rang. If Melissa had been even 30 seconds late, and she was trying to call phone 2, then it wouldn't have come through because someone jumped on that phone. Seriously, it was chaos, people constantly coming up to the bank and leaving again. One minute there could be no-one on there, and then literally 20 seconds later more than half the phones could be taken, I kid you not. as a result of such a fluid situation, I really can't say with any certainty which phones were occupied at Axon time and which weren't, except for the two I was standing in front of, which were definitely unoccupied at Axon time.

Sorry it didn't get enhottenated, but we did our best. I've officially given up now, and someone else can do it, or no-one else for all I care, if the PMs want us to get that wav file they wouldn't have put it in such a STUPID location.








OK I'm done.

- Malrog could be happier

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[ariock]

Phones with screens???