This document describes the components and workings of a circuit designed to detect radio frequency (RF) signals from cell phones. The circuit uses a CA3130 op-amp, various resistors and capacitors, a BC548 transistor, light emitting diode (LED), antenna, and 9V battery. When a cell phone makes or receives a call or text message near the antenna, it induces a voltage that is amplified and detected by the op-amp. If strong enough, it activates the LED indicator, showing that a mobile phone is present. The objective is to create a simple circuit to detect activated cell phones within centimeters by sensing their 0.9-3GHz transmission signals.
This document describes the components and workings of a circuit designed to detect radio frequency (RF) signals from cell phones. The circuit uses a CA3130 op-amp, various resistors and capacitors, a BC548 transistor, light emitting diode (LED), antenna, and 9V battery. When a cell phone makes or receives a call or text message near the antenna, it induces a voltage that is amplified and detected by the op-amp. If strong enough, it activates the LED indicator, showing that a mobile phone is present. The objective is to create a simple circuit to detect activated cell phones within centimeters by sensing their 0.9-3GHz transmission signals.
This document describes the components and workings of a circuit designed to detect radio frequency (RF) signals from cell phones. The circuit uses a CA3130 op-amp, various resistors and capacitors, a BC548 transistor, light emitting diode (LED), antenna, and 9V battery. When a cell phone makes or receives a call or text message near the antenna, it induces a voltage that is amplified and detected by the op-amp. If strong enough, it activates the LED indicator, showing that a mobile phone is present. The objective is to create a simple circuit to detect activated cell phones within centimeters by sensing their 0.9-3GHz transmission signals.
This document describes the components and workings of a circuit designed to detect radio frequency (RF) signals from cell phones. The circuit uses a CA3130 op-amp, various resistors and capacitors, a BC548 transistor, light emitting diode (LED), antenna, and 9V battery. When a cell phone makes or receives a call or text message near the antenna, it induces a voltage that is amplified and detected by the op-amp. If strong enough, it activates the LED indicator, showing that a mobile phone is present. The objective is to create a simple circuit to detect activated cell phones within centimeters by sensing their 0.9-3GHz transmission signals.
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Components Required
CA3130 Op-Amp Resistors – 2.2MΩ x 2, 100KΩ, 1KΩ Capacitors – 22pF x 2, 0.22nF, 47pF, 100µF BC548 NPN Transistor LED Antenna Connecting Wires Breadboard 9V Battery Working
The Op-amp part of the circuit acts as the RF Signal
Detector while Transistor part of the circuit act as the indicator. The capacitors collection along with the antenna are used to detect RF Signals when a cell phone makes (or receives) a phone call or sends (or receives) a text message.
Op-Amp reads the signals by converting the rise in current
at input to voltage at output and the LED will be activated.
In normal condition, when there is no RF signal, the voltage
across the diode will be negligible. Even though this voltage is amplified by the transistor amplifier, yet the output voltage is less than the reference voltage, which is applied to the inverting terminal of the comparator. Since the voltage at non inverting terminal of the OPAMP is less than the voltage at the inverting terminal, the output of the OPAMP is low logic signal.
Now when a mobile phone is present near the signal, a
voltage is induced in the choke and the signal is demodulated by the diode. This input voltage is amplified by the common emitter transistor. The output voltage is such that it is more than the reference output voltage. The output of the OPAMP is thus a logic high signal and the LED starts glowing, to indicate the presence of a mobile phone. The circuit has to be placed centimeters away from the object to be detected. CIRCUIT DIAGRAM Basic Principle of Mobile Phone Detector Circuit
The basic principle behind the Cell Phone Detector
circuits is to detect the RF Signals. In the Schottky diode circuit, the Schottky Diode is used to detect the cell phone signal as they have a unique property of being able to rectify low frequency signals, with low noise rate. When an inductor is placed near the RF signal source, it receives the signal through mutual induction. This signal is rectified by the Schottky diode. This low power signal can be amplified and used to power any indicator like an LED in this case. OBJECTIVE
The most common electronic equipment
used now-a-days is Cell Phone or Mobile Phone. With advancement in communication technology, the requirement of cell phones has increased dramatically. A cell phone typically transmits and receives signals in the frequency range of 0.9 to 3GHz. This article provides a simple circuit to detect the presence of an activated cell phone by detecting these signals.
We have designed one circuit that act as Cell Phone
