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by j_s 4598 days ago
Take something like the free the Square magstripe-to-audio converter, record a swipe. Clean it up and/or amplify it, connect the Square reader as headphone output, and blast the recording as loud as necessary to induce the read in a nearby swipe reader. Security-wise, "the magnetic field will generally fall off as the cube of the distance from the magnet".

http://www.instructables.com/id/Read-any-magnetic-strip-card...

http://van.physics.illinois.edu/qa/listing.php?id=419