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local oscillator

British  

noun

  1. electronics the oscillator in a superheterodyne receiver whose output frequency is mixed with the incoming modulated radio-frequency carrier signal to produce the required intermediate frequency

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Then I would get the local oscillator going.

From Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son by Mills, John

If it is, you will hear an intermittent musical note for some tune of your local oscillator.

From Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son by Mills, John

We provide a local oscillator of 270,000 cycles a second, receive by this “super-heterodyne” method which I have just described, and so obtain an intermediate frequency.

From Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son by Mills, John

The system of intermediate-frequency amplification solves the difficulty and we shall see how it does so. 245At the receiving station a local oscillator is used.

From Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son by Mills, John

When you have completed this experiment in heterodyne receiving, using a local oscillator, you are ready to try the regenerative circuit.

From Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son by Mills, John

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