CELL PHONE JAMMER ST.

JOHN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY

ST. JOHN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY

Vevoor, Manor Road, Palghar (E), District-Thane (401404)

2012-2013

PROJECT TITLE:

GSM(900 MHz) CELL PHONE JAMMER.

By

LIVIA LOPES (26)

JOYLIN RAJ (46)
PAULSON KOMBHAL (21)
RENZEL HENDRIQUES (17)

B.E. (EXTC)

Under the guidance of

Mr.Sundarajan
Department of Electronics and Telecommunication.

Mr. Kathan Patel

Department of Electronics and Telecommunication.

Mr. Jason Dsouza

Department of Electronics and Telecommunication.

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Department of Electronics and Telecommunication

Engineering.

Year 2012-2013
ST. JOHN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY, PALGHAR.

CERTIFICATE OF APPROVAL
For
Project Synopsis
This to certify that
LIVIA LOPES (26)
JOYLIN RAJ (46)
PAULSON KOMBHAL (21)
RENZEL HENDRIQUES (17)

Have satisfactorily carried out the Project work entitled “GSM (900 MHz) CELL
PHONE JAMMER” in partial fulfillment of Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and
Technology Engineering as laid down by University of Mumbai during the academic year
2012-2013.
.
Internal Guide 1: Mr.Sundarajan. Internal Guide 2: Kathan Patel.
Internal Guide 3: JasonDsouza.

Internal Examiner External Examiner

_________________________ __________________________
( ) ( )

Principal

(Prof. (Dr) S. N. Takalikar)

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

We would like to thank our project guide Mr. Sunderajan for his
constant support and guidance. He has been our source of inspiration. It
has been a wonderful and intellectually stimulating experience to work
under his guidance.

We are also highly indebted to our project coordinators Mr. Kathan Patel
and Mr. Jason D’souza for providing us with the necessary facilities.

We would also like to thank our Principal Dr. Satish Takalikar, HOD
Suhas Sahasrabudhe, who provided us their relentless support and
guided us whenever and wherever required.

Finally, we would like to thank our fellow classmates and all our peers
whose small but valuable suggestions for our project enabled us to
broaden the scope of our project.

JOYLIN RAJ
RENZEL HENDRIQUES
LIVIA LOPES
PAULSON KOMBHAL

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ABSTRACT

Cell phones are everywhere these days. The last few years have witnessed a
dramatic boom in the wireless communication industry, hence, increasing the
number of users of mobile communication devices. The rapid proliferation of cell
phones in recent years to near ubiquitous status eventually raised problems such
as their potential use to invade privacy, contribute to academic cheating, or even
aid in carrying out terrorist activities.

In our project we intend to build a cell phone jamming device that will disable
communication on the cell phone over a particular area which will be decided by
the range of the jammer.

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Slide 1:

PRESENTED BY: JOYLIN RAJ

RENZEL HENDRIQUES
LIVIA LOPES
PAULSON KOMBHAL

The last few years have witnessed a dramatic boom in the wireless
communications industry, hence increasing the number of users of mobile
communication devices. The dependence on Mobile Networks is worldwide. The
success and growing in mobile networks becomes troublesome and annoying by
the ringing of mobile, especially in places where silence is required such as
Mosques, University lecture rooms, libraries, concert halls, meeting rooms etc.
This magnifies the need for a more efficient and reliable signal scrambler.
This project will solve this problem by using a jamming device capable of
preventing cell phones which operates within a restricted area. This project gives
an explanation to the concept of mobile Jamming and explores jamming in the
(GSM) Global system for mobile communication network.

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Slide 2:

What is a Mobile phone

Jammer?

A jammer is a device which

blocks signals transmitted by
base station to the receiver of
cell phone (Downlink).

A GSM jammer is radio frequency equipment which produces an RF signal i.e.

random noise signal to overpower the cell phone frequency and effectively jam the
signal which results no service to any type of cell phone such as CDMA and GSM
in the range of 800MHz to 900MHz.
Once the cell phone jammer is operating, all mobile phones present within the
jamming coverage area are blocked and cellular activity in the immediate
surroundings is jammed.

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Slide 3:

Principle of Operation

Jammer transmits noise at downlink

frequencies of GSM band.

The desired cell phone signal gets “drowned”

in the noise signal.

The link with the base station is broken

As the power received from the GSM Base Station is usually low, it is easier to
jam the downlink (i.e. Jamming the mobile station 'handset' receiver) than uplink;
hence the jammer output frequency should cover the downlink frequency.

Jamming devices overpower the cell phone by transmitting noise signal on the
same frequency and at a high enough power that the two signals collide and cancel
each other out. Cell phones are designed to add power if they experience low-level
interference, so the jammer must recognize and match the power increase from the
phone.

Thus the noise signal overpowers the receiver signal and hence the cell phone
experiences a ‘no network’ state.
This is the basic operation of a cell phone jammer.

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Slide 4:

Target Application

Classrooms
Small conference rooms
Museums
Movie theatres
Libraries
Hospitals
Religious Establishments

Cell Phone Jammers are desired at places where it is necessary to maintain silence
or decorum.

Prevent industrial espionage where mobile units are used as bugging devices.

Counter terrorism threats such as remotely detonated bombs in high risk areas.

Eliminate public nuisance in places like movie theaters, restaurants and temples.

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Slide 5 :

SCOPE OF THE
PROJECT:

THE SCOPE OF THE PROJECT IS TO DESIGN A

JAMMER TO DISABLE THE RECEIVER OF THE CELL
PHONE

It can restrict the mobile phone signal which

falls in distance of 10m~
10m~30
m~30m
30m.

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Slide 6:

Objective

Effect all GSM 900 phones

Range of 10-15 meters
Low Power
Low Cost
Plug and Jam!

The project involves the design and development of cell phone jammers to block
all the cell phones within the designated area for a GSM 900 frequency band.

This device will disrupt cellular communication with respect to the following:
Operate in the 900MHz band.
It has a 10-15 meter effective blocking radius.
It should be power efficient and should consume minimum power.
It should be cost efficient.
It should not require extra startup device and should operate as soon as the power
is supplied.

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Slide 7:
Working
Jamming Basics

A jamming device transmits -

same radio frequencies as the
downlink frequency,
disrupting the communication
between the phone and the
cell-phone base station in the
tower.

Disrupting a cell phone is the same as jamming radio communication. A cell phone
works by communicating with the service network through a cell tower as base
station. Cell towers divide a city into small areas, or cells. As a cell phone user
drives down the street, the signal is handed from tower to tower. Jammer disrupts
the communication between the phone and the cell phone base station in the tower.
It’s called denial-of-service attack.

The jammer denies service of the radio spectrum to the cell phone users within
range of the jamming device. This is done by inserting additional noise in receivers
which prevent these Receivers from getting the correct information from the
receiving signal.

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Slide 8:

TECHNICAL
PARAMETERS

UPLINK DOWNLINK

GSM 890-915MHz 935-960MHz

The frequency of the transmitted signal of the jammer must cover the GSM
frequency range as shown above.

As the power received from the GSM Base Station is usually low, it is easier to
jamm the downlink (i.e. Jamming the mobile station 'handset' receiver) than
uplink; hence the jammer output frequency should cover the downlink frequency.

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Slide 9:
Technical Parameters

FRISS FORMULA:
Where:
Pj=Jammer Power Pt=Transmitter power
Gjr=Antenna gain from jammer to receiver
Grj= Antenna gain from receiver to jammer
Gtr= Antenna gain from transmitter to receiver
Grt= Antenna gain from receiver to transmitter
Br=Communications receiver bandwidth
Bj=Jamming transmitter bandwidth
Rtr=Range between communications transmitter and
receiver
Rjt= Range between jammer and communications receiver
Lj=Jammer signal loss
Lr=Communication signal loss

Jamming is successful when the jamming signal denies the usability of the
communications transmission.

The effects of jamming depend on the jamming-to-signal ratio (J/S), and the
modulation scheme.

The above equation indicates that the jammer effective radiated power, which is
the product of antenna gain and output power should be high if jamming efficiency
is required.

On the other hand, in order to prevent jamming, the antenna gain towards the
communication partner should be as high as possible while the gain towards the
jammer should be as low as possible.

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Slide 10:

Cell Phone – Power Level

A GSM Base station transmits ~

around 20W

Signal level received by a cell phone

-30 to -110dbm (1µW to 100µW)

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Slide 11:

Target Specifications

Frequency of operation (Downlink)~ 935 TO 960 MHz

Power level ~ -30 dbm

Modulation Noise Using Zener Diode

Sawtooth ~ 1KHz

Antenna used is Whip Antenna.

The output power of the jammer was designed so that it has a range of 20m, and
was calculated as follow:

Jr ( jammer power at mobile receiver) ≥ Smax – SNRmin

SNRmin = 9 dB for mobile receiver and
Smax = -15dBm (Mobile station signal power at mobile receiver)
Jr ≥ -24 dBm

The jammer output power = Jr + F

free space path loss equation:
F = 32.45 + 20 log (f *D), f in MHZ and D in Km
Output power = 24-58 = -34 dBm

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Slide 12:

BASIC BLOCK DIAGRAM

OF GSM JAMMER
POWER
SUPPLY

NOISE
OSCILLAT
GENERATO AMPLIFIER ANTENNA
OR
R

TUNNING
CIRCUIT

BLOCK DIAGRAM DESCRIPTION

VOLTAGE CONTROLLED OSCILLATOR

The voltage controlled oscillator is the most important component in a cellular

jamming system. It is an electronic oscillator designed to control oscillation
frequency by a voltage input.

NOISE GENERATOR

It generates a noise signal and it is mixed with the saw tooth wave signal. This
Noise will help in masking the jamming transmission, making it look like random
“noise” to an outside observer. Without the noise generator, the jamming signal is
just a sweeping, unmodulated continuous wave RF carrier.

TUNNING CIRCUIT

Tuning circuit - Controls the frequency at which the jammer broadcasts its signal
by sending a particular voltage to the oscillator.

AMPLIFIER
It boosts the power of the radio frequency output to high enough levels to jam a
signal.

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POWER SUPPLY

The jammer devices can be plugged into a standard outlet for input power.

ANTENNA

Antenna is used to radiate transmitting frequency and generates RF energy. Every

Jamming device has an antenna to send the signal. Antennas are external to
provide longer range and may be tuned for individual frequency. Antenna used is a
omnidirectional, which radiates signal uniformly in all direction and converts
electrical signal into electromagnetic waves.

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Slide 13:

SCHEMATIC
DIAGRAM

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Noise Generator

Noise is generated using reverse biased zener diode and then

passed through two stages of amplification.

Noise of -30 dbc/Hz required

Noise generated by commercial noise diode -150 dbc/Hz

We use an MAR6SM IC

The carrier signal is modulated with noise to insert noise into the receiver.
By this the jammer can emit multiple tones, usually; the placement of these tones is
based on some knowledge of the target or targets to be jammed.
Noise is used to raise the background noise in the spectrum in which the target
system is operating.

The noise generator used in this design is based on avalanche noise generated by
zener breakdown phenomenon. It is created when a zener is operated in the reverse
biased mode. The avalanche noise is similar to shot noise but is more intense and
has a flat frequency spectrum.

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Slide 15:

Noise Generator Block diagram

REVERSE
BIASED MAR6SM MAR6SM
ZENER DIODE

The noise generated using reverse biased zener diode is amplified using series of
MAR6SM amplifiers.

MAR6SM acts as a simple amplifier.

It is designed to replace the transistor and help the designer to build RF amplifiers.
MAR6SM is used to simplify an amplification chain without worrying about
possible self oscillations, instability, impedance mismatching or the bias.
MAR-6SM is a wideband amplifier offering high dynamic range.
It uses Darlington configuration and is fabricated using silicon technology.

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Oscillator

Feedback Common Emitter Colpitts

Oscillator.

The Colpitts oscillator is an oscillator that uses an LC circuit combined with

a transistor for feedback.
With the transistor removed, the inductor and two capacitors form a resonant
circuit.
Current moves back and forth as the capacitors charge and discharge through the
inductor. The transistor amplifies this oscillation.

The heart of the system is the RF oscillator .The frequency of the oscillator is 900
MHz. This is the carrier frequency of the jammer. This frequency is modulated by
The modulating signal given to the base of the transistor and the modulated output
is obtained across the collector terminal. This modulated output is connected to the
antenna, which converts the electric signal into electromagnetic signal and
transmits it into the space.
The receiver, which is the cell phone in our case, receives the transmitted signal
and tries to demodulate the signal. Since this signal is not within the bandwidth of
the cell it displays "Network Busy" on the LCD panel. Since the power of the
transmitter is greater than the original signal transmitted from the cell phone tower
The cell phone will not respond to the original signal.

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VARACTOR DIODE

It is a type of diode whose capacitance

varies as a function of voltage applied across
its terminal.

ANODE CATHODE

ELECTRICAL SYMBOL

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VCO

The Voltage Controlled Oscillator (VCO) is arguably the most important

component in a cellular phone jamming system.
It is little four-terminal device (Power, Ground, RF Output, and Voltage Tune)
which generates the required, low-level RF output signal with a minimal of fuss.
Ideally, the VCO you choose should cover the frequency range of the cellular base
station's downlink frequencies (tower transmits) you wish to jam.
The VCO is responsible for generating the RF signal which will over power the
mobile downlink signal. The selection of the VCO was influenced by two main
factors, the frequency of the GSM system, which will be jammed and the
availability of the chip.
We select the MAX2623 VCO which can be implemented as an LC oscillator
configuration, integrating all of the tank circuitry on-chip, this makes the VCO
extremely easy-to-use.

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Power Amplifier

CIRCUIT DIAGRAM TOP VIEW

The second most important part of the RF chain is the RF power amplifier. This is
a device which may take a small RF signal, say at +10 dBm (10 milliwatts) and
amplify it up to around +34 dBm (2.5 watts).

For GSM‐900 the minimum signal to noise ratio (SNR min=9 dB) and maximum
signal power (SMAX =‐15dBm)



Now SNR= 
 
So Jr (dB) =‐15 ‐ 9=‐24dBm.
To cover area of 20 meter radius; the free space power loss (FSPL) should be
calculated as follow:

FSPL=20log
Where:
R and λ in meter

For 960MHz λ= 
= 0.3125 m,

Substituting in FSPL equation gives:
FSPL= 58 dB, then Jr=-24+58 = 34dBm.

Here again we use MAR6SM Amplifier.

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Slide 20:

ANTENNA

Antenna should have low

VSWR.

Bandwidth around 916MHz

center frequency which covers
GSM jammer frequency range.

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Slide 21

SEMESTER 8

• Circuit design.
• PCB layout design and fabrication.
• PCB testing.
• Components soldering and assembling.
• Hardware testing.
• Troubleshooting.

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Slide 22

CONCLUSION

In this semester we have thus designed the basic

block diagram along with the necessary internal
components.

We have also planned on the models of the

components we are going to use for final
implementation of the circuit.

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