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[Mike_Was]

No Joy in Union Station

[aliendial]

Re Union Station - those are the accessible phones. There are, according to one of the payphone sites, a bunch of phones on the platforms. These most likely are on platforms for the MD and VA commuter trains (MART and VRE). These platforms are accessible only to ticket holders. We can see a few such phones through the doors to those platforms, but we are not interested in attracting any more attention than we already are, hovering around a transportation hub. If there are phones on the Amtrak platforms, similar problems getting access....

And we figure, unless we get lucky today, there will be only a few more public phone banks left to check Tuesday before the axon is found, or (worst case) one pissed restaurant manager who wants to know why they got 10 prank calls in a row....

Hmmm. Maybe there will be a red balloon?

Forgot to note - Mike also took another stab at the one on Jefferson Drive in front of Agriculture. Some mega festival is going on this weekend such that cars were not leaving the mall at 5:30 like all good tourists should, but in fact were arriving for something at the festival, and the Park Police blocked off Jefferson Drive! So I couldn't get there. Anyway, it may be that despite previous successful hotenating, this phone is broken -you can hear the call but there is a lot of interference. Mike got dumped too and he says the clicking noise that I heard earlier in the week was audible on the line even before the call from Melissa. Hate to let this go...

[aliendial]

Report from Cortana and Mike_Was at the Appalachian Trail axon.

1. Mapquest location is wrong except for the part about the last section not being paved; fortunately their GPS helped them over the last bit.

2. This is a private club deep in the woods. They use the payphone as their business phone, so all communications come this way, and the phone is always answered. The nice people there have been kinda irritated to keep getting these calls.

3. Someone got this axon week 1; not sure about week 2; Mike_Was and Cortana got it today. (Unlocked "winning" clip) Mike and Cortana have promised that if the axon shows up again they will call and tell the club how to stop it the first time, and hopefully Melissa will take note and stop bothering them because the axon is nice and hot now. Whoever got this axon in week one should have done this too.

[Cortana]

Appalachian Trailhead Axon

[Mike_Was]

The Axon at the End of the Road

[CableDawg]

Hello, newbie here. Has anyone tried to get the zip_your_shirt axon in Fairfax? I can't find the phone to save my life. I also noticed that the coords for tack_hammer are the same. Did anyone ever find that one? I live .5 mi away from this one so its kind of annoying that it hasn't been knocked out yet

EDIT: Just saw the remark about the payphone being in the swimming pool area. If that is correct, I live less than 500ft from that payphone. Is this axon still going to be active tomorrow?

[Mike_Was]

Pool phone possible?

[chappy]

Based on the posts here, I've entered the new comatas times into the database, they're now listed on the DC reference page. I'll check out the round 4 thread and add any additional times tonight, as well as populate the heading times for this week's hunting.

[Mike_Was]

DC Pay Phone Regulations

[aliendial]

Per the scope provision, this only applies to outside payphones unless it expressly states otherwise. So I don't think 609.2 governs. But let's stop talking like lawyers and focus on those truly at fault.

[chappy]

I'm going to get the 14:33 outside of the agriculture building; it's one more towards 777 even if the .wav file is unlocked.

[aliendial]

Chappy got it! Report! Report! Was the phone fixed?

[aliendial]

Having pooled our data about what phones we (Mike and I) tried this weekend with kaziel's data from earlier, we still have bunches of phones to cover at Union Station.

Fortunately, we'll have 10 opportunities a day this week until we find it or someone reports the phone for suspicious behavior.

Not tried yet:

- 4 sets of 3 outside Au Bon Pain
- Group of about 6 at gates H-J
- Restaurant phones - America, Thunder Grill, B.Smith's
(we assume all three have payphones inside somewhere; not confirmed)

Quibbles in data - revisit if those above don't pan out:

- Group of phones at Gates A-B reported quiet by civilians; professional axon hunters may get different results.
- 1 phone was in use when kaziel did the set near the car rental booth.
- 1 phone upstairs by the north metro entrance is very quiet. I could hear all the others in that set and down in the station, but not that one. So it might be the one too.
- phones inside metro station - one set was just 30 feet away from the outside set; if their phones had decent volume I should have heard them too. If there are more deeper in the station, didn't see them.

[chappy]

Was it broken before? I had no problems with the phone today; I'd never been to it before (13th and Jefferson), but there was nothing out of the ordinary. I checked prior to the time and it accepts calls; loud ring, no noise on the line, and it enhottenated easily. Got a weird look from the guy in the black SUV with black-tinted windows, though. Guess I look harmless.

[aliendial]

Yeah, both Mike and I got lots of interference on the line this week. Mike reported the noise was there even before Melissa called so we decided it really was a phone problem. Hmmm. /me gets suspicious again.