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Definition of Heterodyne receiver
1. Noun. A radio receiver that combines a locally generated frequency with the carrier frequency to produce a supersonic signal that is demodulated and amplified.
Terms within: Heterodyne Oscillator, Local Oscillator
Generic synonyms: Radio, Radio Receiver, Radio Set, Receiving Set, Tuner, Wireless
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heterodyne Receiver
Literary usage of Heterodyne receiver
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the IRE. by Institute of Radio Engineers (1915)
"To begin with, we must realize that a heterodyne receiver is one in which the
incoming wave energy produces an effect at its own radio frequency, ..."
2. The Principles of Electric Wave Telegraphy and Telephony by John Ambrose Fleming (1919)
"The heterodyne receiver gives the operator full power to adjust the resultant
... With this heterodyne receiver signals have been easily read at a distance ..."
3. Experimental Wireless Stations: Their Theory, Design, Construction and by Philip E. Edelman (1922)
"... heterodyne receiver; Action of Heterodyne Circuit; Phase Modified Receivers;
Balance Systems; Construction of Phase Rotator; Phase Shifting Explained; ..."
4. Practical Wireless Telegraphy: A Complete Text Book for Students of Radio by Elmer Eustice Bucher (1917)
"The note of the local beat current generated by the heterodyne receiver has ...
291—Early Form of heterodyne receiver. The precise actions taking place in ..."
5. Principles of Radio Communication by John Harold Morecroft, A. Pinto, Walter Andrew Curry (1921)
"The self-heterodyne receiver, utilizing an oscillating vacuum tube as a generator
and detector, is undoubtedly the most important of recent developments in ..."
6. Practical Wireless Telegraphy: A Complete Text Book for Students of Radio by Elmer Eustice Bucher (1917)
"291—Early Form of heterodyne receiver. the resultant note being of lower pitch.
The note of the local beat current generated by the heterodyne receiver has ..."
7. Wireless Telephony, in Theory and Practice by Ernst Walter Rühmer (1908)
"heterodyne receiver.—One of the most interesting of Professor Fessenden's many
inventions is what he has called the "Heterodyne" receiver, ..."
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