Well shielded (for example, wrapped to copper foil), 1.5V AAA powered device
will give EMI below ambient level. If its clock generator employs spread
spectrum, it's even more difficult to detect.

"Joey" wrote in message
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Suppose someone visited your office or home and tried to make a voice
recording using a hidden recorder.

If they used a older-style dictation machine based on tape then you
could detect the electromagnetic transmissions from the dictation
machine when it was recording.

But how would you detect if someone was secretly recording with an MP3
player that recorded to flash memory?

Is there some transmission which could be detected?
Perhaps some low power ultra high frequency from chip refresh cycles?