Electronic – My boss has asked me make a device which is capable of scanning rooms for bugs!

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Well this as I searched on the net is advertising, making money and fools out of those who want to make/buy such a bug scanner.

  • I am not an electronics engineer but am being forced to.
  • I do have access to all the hardware I may need.
  • There are lots of shops claiming that they have devices which can scan a area to see if there are bugs or spy listener devices installed, but how do I know if these work?
  • Personally I think this type of device only exists in James Bond movies :))

My boss's reason

  • He seems to hear some sound in the conference room, and his room where he has to stay for another month.
  • He claims the sound is something like "tii-eee, tii, teee ti ti" and so on. lol

Deliver

Okay, so now I have to reply to him with a gadget to scan his rooms for potential wireless transmitter bugs.

Best Answer

Consider a new job. :)

Apart from that, you could try and rent a spectrum analyzer from an equipment rental service, build a simple loop antenna (cut the end off a coax cable, loop some wire from the center conductor to the ground braid) and 'sniff' around the room to see if there's any spurious RF transmissions coincident with the "tii-ee, tii, teee ti ti" noises.