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- Magazine
- This phile dated 06/22/1994
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- Volume 3, Issue 4
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- You can always find BTR on PsychoTron BBS
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- I found this and just put it in, it's good.
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- You remember the little "bug" installed on the bad guys car in the James Bond
- flicks that allowed Bond to follow the car from a distance? Well this file is
- a tutorial on them.
-
- First, they do exist, I've built my own, but even the best commercial units
- intended for law enforcement purposes wont do what the Bond model purports
- to do, that is, give a printout on a moving map showing the route driven by
- the bug toter.
-
- The basics of the unit are the transmitter, which is about the size of
- a pack of cigarettes and is held on via a magnet. And a receiver, using 2
- identical antennas, coupled to a center zero meter which gives a heading
- towards the transmitter. More on these later.
-
- The receiver/display unit is used by pilots, amateur radio operators, and
- law enforcement and security personnel to track the movements of the
- transmitter
- usually at short ranges, the civil air patrol uses these units to find
- downed aircraft by tracking the emergency beacon, activated by the
- impact of the crash. Amateurs play "hunt the fox" to keep illegal transmitters
- out of the ham bands. Law enforcement personnel track the movement of people,
- drugs, and weapons by attaching a transmitter to the object (or suspect's
- car) to be followed.
-
- The transmitter is usually a small VHF or UHF battery operated package
- dangling a 19" flexible antenna (about the thickness of piano wire). The
- transmitter does not "beep" per say, but transmits a continual carrier.
- The FBI uses 167.xxx mhz for theirs and the local DA uses the intercounty
- police freq of 155.37. I have seen military models that use 149.xxx mhz
- around here (air force).
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- Now the receiver:
- Two identical antennas mounted on the chase vehicle (usually magnetic mounts)
- feed a pair of PIN diodes that feed a phase detector which samples the
- receiver's IF output. When the received signal is directly in front of you,
- signals arrive at exactly the same time at each antenna. This is calibrated to
- read center 0 on the meter. (Incidentally the unit can't tell if the signal is
- in front or in back of you, so the need to make sure you follow the subject
- reasonably closely is apparent). If the bug travels say to 10 o'clock on the
- compass rose, the needle will swing to 4 o'clock on the meter. The object here
- is to always drive towards zero and you follow the bug in the most direct
- direction. With a little practice,you can follow a subject on an adjcent
- street without loosing him.
- The meter swings because the signal arrives later at one antenna than the
- other, causing a voltage change in the phase detector (an Exar Radio-teletype
- decoder chip in my model).
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- Some recent units ive seen have Light emitting diodes in a 360 degree circle
- and use 4 antennas. This gives you full circle detection capabilitys as the
- phase between pairs of antennas is calculated also.
-
- Now, prevention:
- The easiest way to detect if you've been planted with one of these little
- transmitters, is to walk around the car or whatever with a portable frequency
- counter and check for an alien RF signal. This is also the recommended
- method to de-bug your home. A small freq counter with 1.2 ghz capabilitys
- sells for around $100. today. If you do find a transmitter, have fun with it.
- Stick it on a train heading out of town, a Greyhound bus, or a over the road
- tractor-trailer rig....my favorite is to stick it on one of their own
- vehicles and watch them chase themselves....hehehe.
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