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    A tuned radio frequency receiver (or TRF receiver) is a type of radio receiver that is composed of one or more tuned radio frequency (RF) amplifier stages...
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    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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    capacitor-inductor tuned circuits. Tuning: To select a particular station the radio is "tuned" to the frequency of the desired transmitter. The radio has a dial...
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    center frequency. In receivers like the TRF in which the filtering is done at the incoming RF frequency, as the receiver is tuned to higher frequencies, its...
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  • direct-conversion receiver (DCR), also known as a homodyne, synchrodyne, zero intermediate frequency receiver (zero-IF receiver), is a radio receiver design that...
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    Neutrodyne (category Receiver (radio))
    The Neutrodyne radio receiver, invented in 1922 by Louis Hazeltine, was a particular type of tuned radio frequency (TRF) receiver, in which the instability-causing...
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    tuned radio frequency receiver (TRF), all of the receiver stages had to be simultaneously tuned. In addition, since the IF filters are fixed-tuned, the receiver's...
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  • has one tuned circuit. The tuned radio frequency receiver (TRF) consists of a radio frequency amplifier having one or more stages all tuned to the desired...
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    early tuned radio frequency (TRF) receivers in the 1910s-1920s, beat with the carrier frequency of the station. Each time the radio was tuned to a different...
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  • radio transmitter and in receivers that work by the superheterodyne principle. The oscillator controls the frequency to which the apparatus is tuned....
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    The verb tuning in radio contexts means adjusting the receiver to detect the desired radio signal carrier frequency that a particular radio station uses...
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    to the rest of the receiver. Radio signals at other frequencies are blocked by the tuned circuit and not passed on. A modulated radio wave, carrying an...
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    : 205–206 : 5  "Tuning" means adjusting the frequency of the receiver to the frequency of the desired radio transmission. The first receivers had no tuned circuit...
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    familiar form of radio receiver is a broadcast radio receiver, often just called a broadcast receiver or simply a radio, as used for radio broadcasting....
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  • AN/ALR-20 (category Radar warning receivers)
    AN/ALR-20(A) is an airborne wideband tuned radio frequency receiver providing a panoramic display of Radio Frequency (RF) spectrum on US Air Force B-52...
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    the enablers of cognitive radio. Superheterodyne receivers use a VFO (variable-frequency oscillator), mixer, and filter to tune the desired signal to a...
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    with other users with similar radios, in contrast to a broadcast receiver, which only receives transmissions. Two-way radios usually use a half-duplex communication...
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    through a tuned circuit (LC circuit). The tuned circuit allows positive feedback only at its resonant frequency. In regenerative receivers using only...
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    circuit tuned to the frequency of an incoming radio signal. It is primarily used in radio receivers to keep the receiver tuned to the frequency of the...
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    The low-frequency radio range, also known as the four-course radio range, LF/MF four-course radio range, A-N radio range, Adcock radio range, or commonly...
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  • years, they persisted with the tuned radio frequency receiver (TRF) principle, only adopting superheterodyne receiver (superhet) designs after some 10...
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    Preselector (redirect from Tuning coil)
    connects between a radio antenna and a radio receiver. The preselector is a band-pass filter that blocks troublesome out-of-tune frequencies from passing through...
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    of a fixed-frequency amplifier, simplifying tuning. Compare to its predecessor, the tuned RF receiver. IF amplifiers might use double-tuned amplifiers...
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  • with a tuned circuit, all tuned to the frequency of the station. A major problem of early TRF receivers was that they were complicated to tune, because...
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  • Resistance Front, a separatist group in Indian Kashmir Tuned radio frequency receiver, a type of radio Trinidadian Creole, by ISO 639 code TRF1, French howitzer...
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  • Thumbnail for Victor Orthophonic Victrola
    "Victrolas with Radiola" incorporated a "five-tube Radiola tuned radio frequency receiver with orthophonic reproduction." A $650 "Victrola-Electrola"...
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    bandpass filter in the receiver consists of one or more tuned circuits which act like a resonator, similarly to a tuning fork. The tuned circuit has a natural...
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    Very low frequency or VLF is the ITU designation for radio frequencies (RF) in the range of 3–30 kHz, corresponding to wavelengths from 100 to 10 km,...
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    resonates is called the bandwidth. Thus, a high-Q tuned circuit in a radio receiver would be more difficult to tune, but would have more selectivity; it would...
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    A radio repeater is a combination of a radio receiver and a radio transmitter that receives a signal and retransmits it, so that two-way radio signals...
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