A superheterodyne receiver, often shortened to superhet, is a type of radio receiver that uses frequency mixing to convert a received signal to a fixed...
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Advantages section below describes how the superheterodyne receiver overcomes these problems. The superheterodyne receiver, invented in 1918 by Edwin Armstrong...
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Wasp" line of regenerative receivers. E.H. Scott Radio Laboratories offered its superheterodyne "World's Record" shortwave receiver kit in the late 1920s,...
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frequency of the intended signal. This is in contrast to the standard superheterodyne receiver where this is accomplished only after an initial conversion to...
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By the mid 1930s, it was replaced by the superheterodyne receiver patented by Edwin Armstrong. The TRF receiver was patented in 1916 by Ernst Alexanderson...
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RF front end (section Superheterodyne receiver)
be transferred to the rest of the receiver at the more easily handled intermediate frequency. For most superheterodyne architectures, the RF front end consists...
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There may be several such stages of intermediate frequency in a superheterodyne receiver; two or three stages are called double (alternatively, dual) or...
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previously been available. The greatly improved selectivity of the superheterodyne receiver overtook the TRF design in almost all applications, however the...
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Tetrode (section The superheterodyne receiver)
The principle of the modern superheterodyne (or superhet) receiver (originally named the super-sonic heterodyne receiver, because the intermediate frequency...
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Heterodyne (section Superheterodyne receiver)
heterodyne process is in the superheterodyne radio receiver circuit, which is used in virtually all modern radio receivers. In 1901, Reginald Fessenden...
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Antique radio (section Superheterodyne receivers)
manufacturers could afford to build a superheterodyne receiver (superhet). RCA had exclusive rights to the superheterodyne circuit patents and extracted high...
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inventor who developed FM (frequency modulation) radio and the superheterodyne receiver system. He held 42 patents and received numerous awards, including...
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Regenerative circuit (redirect from Regenerative receiver)
"reflex" receivers) and especially by another Armstrong invention - superheterodyne receivers and is largely considered obsolete.: p.190 Regeneration (now...
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Lucien Lévy (section Superheterodyne invention)
and radio receiver manufacturer. He invented the superheterodyne method of amplifying radio signals, used in almost all AM radio receivers. His patent...
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Radar detector detector (category Radar warning receivers)
detectors are declared illegal. Radar detectors are built around a superheterodyne receiver, which has a local oscillator that radiates slightly. It is therefore...
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Superheterodyne transmitter is a radio or TV transmitter which uses an intermediate frequency signal in addition to radio frequency signal. There are...
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Software-defined radio (redirect from Software Receiver)
software defined antennas are the enablers of cognitive radio. Superheterodyne receivers use a VFO (variable-frequency oscillator), mixer, and filter to...
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Cascode (section Mixer in superheterodyne receivers)
cascode circuit is very useful as a multiplying mixer circuit in superheterodyne receivers. At the lower gate the RF signal is fed to the mixer, and at the...
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high-band quadrant receivers a low-band array plus receiver to provide 360° azimuth low-band coverage a narrowband superheterodyne receiver for signal analysis...
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superheterodyne receiver, and a detector designed for RF can be combined with an RF amplifier and a low-pass filter into a direct-conversion receiver...
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Detector (radio) (redirect from Detector radio receiver)
semiconductor diodes, transistors, or integrated circuits. In a superheterodyne receiver the term is also sometimes used to refer to the mixer, the tube...
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radio receivers was developed by Edwin Armstrong, who patented a regenerative receiver in 1914. At least one console-model broadcast superheterodyne receiver...
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sensitive to noise when using a regenerative receiver or a poorly implemented superheterodyne receiver. For a given data rate, the bandwidth of a BPSK...
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developed an alternative to Edwin Armstrong's superheterodyne receiver, the Homodyne or direct-conversion receiver. In the homodyne or synchrodyne system, a...
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Hammarlund (section Comet pro receiver)
into the shortwave receiver market with the introduction of the "Comet Pro", the first commercial short wave superheterodyne receiver. Professional listening...
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open-source office software suite Local oscillator in, for example, a superheterodyne receiver Liceum ogólnokształcące, a type of general academic high school...
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or further signal processing. For example, a key component of a superheterodyne receiver is a mixer used to move received signals to a common intermediate...
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portable receivers based on vacuum tubes. The Regency TR-1 was patented by Richard C. Koch, Project Engineer at I.D.E.A. The TR-1 is a superheterodyne receiver...
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AC/DC superheterodyne receiver with push-pull output stage" Archived June 29, 2011, at the Wayback Machine Data and Circuits of Radio Receiver and Amplifier...
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Spectrum analyzer (section Hybrid superheterodyne-FFT)
(FFT) based spectrum analyzers: A swept-tuned analyzer uses a superheterodyne receiver to down-convert a portion of the input signal spectrum to the center...
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