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    In a radio receiver, a beat frequency oscillator or BFO is a dedicated oscillator used to create an audio frequency signal from Morse code radiotelegraphy...
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    the receiver requires a circuit called a beat frequency oscillator (BFO). The third type of modulation, frequency-shift keying (FSK) was used mainly by radioteletype...
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    bridge oscillator is a type of electronic oscillator that generates sine waves. It can generate a large range of frequencies. The oscillator is based...
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    oscillator known as the local oscillator (LO). The mixer uses a non-linear component to produce both sum and difference beat frequency signals, each one containing...
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    Rudolph Goldschmidt for use in pre–vacuum-tube radio receivers as a beat frequency oscillator (BFO) to make continuous wave radiotelegraphy (Morse code) signals...
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    vacuum tube oscillator. The dynatron oscillator circuit was used to a limited extent as beat frequency oscillators (BFOs), and local oscillators in vacuum...
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    a "beat" frequency equal to the difference between the two frequencies is created. Adjusting the local oscillator frequency correctly puts the beat frequency...
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  • abbreviation that stands for: Basic Formal Ontology Beat frequency oscillator used to create an audio frequency signal for receiving continuous wave (Morse code)...
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    eliminated). The carrier must be reintroduced at the receiver by a beat frequency oscillator (BFO). Carriers are also widely used to transmit multiple information...
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    Unlike the beat frequency oscillator or the induction balance machines, which both used a uniform alternating current at a low frequency, the pulse induction...
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    crystal oscillator is an electronic oscillator circuit that uses a piezoelectric crystal as a frequency-selective element. The oscillator frequency is often...
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  • demodulation, usually by means of a beat frequency oscillator (BFO). Failure of the BFO to match the original carrier frequency when receiving such a signal...
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    Oscillation (redirect from Oscillator)
    circuit Royer oscillator Vačkář oscillator Wien bridge oscillator Crystal oscillator Laser (oscillation of electromagnetic field with frequency of order 1015 Hz)...
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    local oscillator signal in a process called heterodyning, resulting in a signal at the difference or beat frequency. Intermediate frequencies are used...
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  • Product detector (category Frequency mixers)
    signal with a locally derived carrier (the Beat Frequency Oscillator, or BFO) to produce an audio frequency copy of the original audio signal and a mixer...
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  • mixed with a heterodyne signal from a BFO (beat frequency oscillator) to change the radio frequency impulses to sound. Almost all commercial traffic has now...
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    such as determining the frequency to which a receiver is tuned, from detecting the frequency of the beat frequency oscillator of the superheterodyne receiver...
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  • (10-80m), dual tuning dials, RF and audio gain controls, beat frequency oscillator (controllable frequency), transmit/receive switch, sold for $119.95 at Sears...
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    of a beat frequency oscillator (BFO). In other words, it is just another stage of heterodyning. For this to work, the BFO frequency must be exactly adjusted...
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  • heterodyne method is still used to receive CW signals, and the beat frequency oscillator (BFO) is a standard part of all communications receivers. K. G...
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  • synchronous detection driven by a local oscillator whose frequency is identical to, or very close to the carrier frequency of the intended signal. This contrasts...
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    capacitively sense the relative position of the hands and control oscillators for frequency with one hand, and amplitude (volume) with the other. The electric...
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    bandwidth, but a beat frequency oscillator must be used at the receiver to reconstitute the carrier. If the reconstituted carrier frequency is wrong then...
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    original tones by mixing the FSK signal with a local oscillator called the BFO or beat frequency oscillator. These tones are fed to the demodulator part of...
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    fundamental frequency, or confusing long wave radio carriers with the higher harmonics. The received signal was mixed with a local beat frequency oscillator (BFO)...
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    Clock (section Oscillator)
    harmonic oscillator over other forms of oscillator is that it employs resonance to vibrate at a precise natural resonant frequency or "beat" dependent...
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    low/medium frequency ground stations, like the beat frequency oscillator (BFO) and the non-directional beacon (NDB). These L/M frequency airways were...
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    Selling of the Fessenden Oscillator". Retrieved 16 March 2020. Fay, H. J. H. (1917). "Submarine Signaling-Fessenden Oscillator". Journal of the American...
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    SSB signals. They may also demodulate CW transmissions if the beat frequency oscillator is tuned slightly above or below the carrier. AM detectors cannot...
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    Clock rate (redirect from Clock frequency)
    normally determined by the frequency of an oscillator crystal. Typically a crystal oscillator produces a fixed sine wave—the frequency reference signal. Electronic...
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