Small hobby project I have never designed any radio stuff I want to solder together a nice thingy that will flash when my GSM telephone rings. Yes i know there are plenty designs already out there but i want to use my solering iron... I thought of connecting a LED and NPN transistor in series on a coin cell 3V lithium, and a 900MHz resonating cirquit to base-emitter. But i have no experience how to make the resonating antenna, I thought of a small loop of wire, with a very small ceramic cap inserted in the loop. One side of the cap also connected to the transistor emitter, the other to the base. When amplitude reach 0.7 V the transistor conducts. (only part of the cycle but that does not matter) Better ideas? Use a HF diode in series with base, to limit the base capacitance influencing the resonator? Using a slow transistor i hope to be safe from it self oscillating; i do not want to make a transmitter... How do i design the resonator? Are there some rules of thumb, then trim by selecting cap or bend the loop until i get it to detect at the longest distance from the phone? It would be very nice if it could also detect 1800MHz, but i think that would need separate loop and transistor for each frequency? Or can i make it dual resonating using only one loop antenna, then add an additional inductor (chip type) and cap to resonate at the second frequency? /Morgan HF beginner Morgans Reglerteknik, HŠllekŒs, 277 35 KIVIK, SWEDEN tel +46(0)414-446620, fax +46(0)8-59817928, morgans.rt@telia.com