superheterodyne detector
1Superheterodyne receiver — A 5 tube superheterodyne receiver made in Japan around 1955 In electronics, a superheterodyne receiver (sometimes shortened to superhet) uses frequency mixing or heterodyning to convert a received signal to a fixed intermediate frequency, which… …
2superheterodyne reception — ▪ electronics the commonest technique for recovering the information (sound or picture) from carrier waves of a range of frequencies, transmitted by different broadcasting stations. The circuitry, devised by Edwin H. Armstrong (Armstrong,… …
3Radar detector — A radar detector, sometimes called a fuzz buster, is a passive electronic device used by motorists to determine if their speed is being monitored by law enforcement agencies via a radar unit, and thereby, potentially avoiding prosecution for… …
4Plate detector (radio) — A plate detector is a vacuum tube detector circuit used in A.M. radios. This circuit employs a tube with an indirectly heated cathode, typically a medium mu triode, or a tetrode or pentode with a sharp cut off control grid. Rectification of R.F.… …
5Radar detector detector — A radar detector detector (RDD) is a device used by police in areas where radar detectors are declared illegal.Radar detectors are built around a superheterodyne receiver, which has a local oscillator that radiates slightly. It is therefore… …
6Grid-leak detector — A grid leak detector is a combination diode rectifier and audio amplifier used as a detector in vacuum tube A.M. radio receivers. In the circuit, the grid of the detector usually a low mu or medium mu triode is connected to the secondary of the… …
7Product detector — A product detector is a type of demodulator used for AM and SSB signals. Rather than converting the envelope of the signal into the decoded waveform like an envelope detector, the product detector takes the product of the modulated signal and a… …
8Envelope detector — An envelope detector is an electronic circuit that takes a high frequency signal as input, and provides an output which is the envelope of the original signal. The capacitor in the circuit stores up charge on the rising edge, and releases it… …
9List of vacuum tubes — This is a list of vacuum tubes or thermionic valves. Before the advent of semiconductor devices, hundreds of tube types were used in consumer and industrial electronics; today only a few types are still used in specialized applications. Contents… …
10Regenerative circuit — The regenerative circuit (or self regenerative circuit) allows an electronic signal to be amplified many times by the same vacuum tube or other active component such as a field effect transistor.Description Regenerative circuits were employed in… …
