heterodyne reception meaning
[Electronics]
Radio reception (especially in telegraphy) by means of the beat-note process. Also see HETERODYNE DETECTION,
1 and HETERODYNE DETECTOR,
1.
heterodyne repeater A REPEATER in which the received signals are converted to another frequency before transmission.
Radio reception (especially in telegraphy) by means of the beat-note process. Also see HETERODYNE DETECTION,
1 and HETERODYNE DETECTOR,
1.
heterodyne repeater A REPEATER in which the received signals are converted to another frequency before transmission.
Examples
- Based on a notebook entry recorded at the time, de Forest asserted that, while working on the cascade amplifier, he had stumbled across the feedback principle on August 6, 1912, which was then used in the spring of 1913 to operate a low-powered transmitter for heterodyne reception of Federal Telegraph arc transmissions.
