Cell Phone Jammer Circuit

March 7, 2016 Engineeering Projects

Introduction to Cell Phone Jammer Circuit:

Our addiction to technological development has made it so that it is almost impossible to
imagine a day without those amazing inventions.

Cell phones popular as mobile phones are the ones we cannot separate from the essential list.
By now, they have become an inseparable part of our lives. Talking about a country like Nepal
which has a low population (approx. 5 million), mainly two categories of cell phone carriers are
available namely; NTC and Ncell. They use GSM 900 or 1800 systems. The systems have been
upgraded to 3G recently. Like there is a bad side to every aspect, excessive use and ringing of
mobile phones becomes annoying or disrupting at certain events. This might create serious
issues in some places like conference rooms, law courts, libraries, lecture rooms and
mosques.

A device called “Cell Phone Jammer Circuit” comes in handy at such situations where one
needs to stop this disrupting ringing and that device is named as a cell phone jammer or ‘GSM
jammer’ in technical terms, whose sole purpose is to inhibit the use of mobiles, i.e., make them
obsolete. Basically it is an electronic countermeasure device. There is a simple technology
behind the entire concept of cell phone jamming.

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3. Telephone Converter Circuit
4. Telephone Spy
5. Phone Broadcaster Circuit

Working of Cell Phone Jammer Circuit

The jamming device broadcasts an RF signal in the frequency range reserved for cell phones
that interferes with the cell phone signal, which results in a “no network available” display on
the cell phone screen. Because of which, all phones within the effective radius of the jammer
are silenced. Keeping aside the convenience of this device, it has been declared illegal in most
countries. According to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the USA;

“The manufacture, importation, sale, or offer for sale, of devices designed to block or jam
wireless transmissions is prohibited”. However recently, there has been an increasing demand
for portable cell phone jammers. We should mention that this project, presented in this report,
is solely done for educational purposes. There is no intention to manufacture or sell such
devices in Nepal, or elsewhere. In this project, a device that will jam both GSM 900 and GSM
1800 services will be designed, built, and tested.
PARTS LIST OF MOBILE CELLPHONE JAMMER CIRCUIT
Resistors (all ¼-watt, ± 5% Carbon)

R1 = 250 Ω
R2 = 750 Ω
R3, R4, R6= 2 KΩ
R5 = 100 KΩ
R7 = 10 Ω
R8, R9 = 1 KΩ
R10 = 2 KΩ

Capacitors

C1, C3 – C7, C9 = 0.1 µF (Ceramic Disc)

C2, C15, C16 = 1nF (Ceramic Disc)
C8, C10 = 10 µF, 16V (Electrolytic Capacitor)
C11, C13 = 4.7 µF, 16V (Electrolytic Capacitor)
C12, C14 = 0.01 µ (Ceramic Disc)

Semiconductors

IC1 = NE555 (Timer IC)

IC2 = LM741 (Operational Amplifier)
IC3 = LM386 (Low power audio power amplifier )
IC4, IC5 = PF08109B (Power Amplifier Module for E-GSM and DCS1800)
IC6 = CVCO55CL (Voltage Controlled Oscillator, 925-970MHZ)
IC7 = CVCO55BE (Voltage Controlled Oscillator, 1785-1900MHZ)
T1 = 2N3904 (Smaller Signal Bipolar Junction Transistor)
ZD1 = 6.8V Zener Diode
D1, D2 = 1N4148 (silicon switching signal diode)

Miscellaneous

Antenna 1 = GSM antenna (Frequency = 850MHz-1GHz, Input Impedance = 50Ω, VSWR<2)

Antenna 2 = DCS antenna (Frequency = 1700MHz-1900MHz, Input Impedance = 50Ω, VSWR<2)