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Mobile Phone TX Demo

(Summer Circuits 2010 article)

Mobile Phone TX Demo

This is a very simple and cheap device that demonstrates mobile phones (US: 'cell phones') generate RF energy (radio waves) strong enough to light an LED.
We have a 30 cm (7.5 cm per side) full-wavelength loop antenna (a 'Quad' to radio amateurs) connected to a germanium diode and a hyper-bright LED.

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