Where are the tracking device detectors?

Question

Where can I find a tracking device detector? I need an electronic device that will detect for me if someone has hidden a tracking device in any of my things. Where can I find something like this? How does it work? How do the tracking devices work? Do they use UHF? Sattelite or the cell towers?

Thanks for the help.

Answer 1

Any kind of tracking device must have a transmitter of some sort.

If the track-ers are using cell-phone tower triangulation, then the transmitter must be on the cell phone frequencies (~900 MHz, ~2100 MHz, etc.)

If the track-ers are using GPS, then the transmitter can be almost any frequency they choose (to transmit the GPS coordinates transferred from the GPS receiver).

Other systems can use a transmitter and some portable direction-finding equipment. If this is the method, then the transmitter can be almost any frequency.

There are commercial 'bug detectors' available that will cover a broad range of frequencies.
http://www.dpl-surveillance-equipment.com/detection_devices.html
http://www.spyworld.com/equipment/exec/search.cgi?search=1&perpage=20&lfield8_keyword=Bug+and+Tap+Detectors&template=_search_results.html
http://www.thespystore.com/countersurveillance.htm

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