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local oscillator

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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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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 John Mills

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 John Mills

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 John Mills

Then I would get the local oscillator going.

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

You will see that you are now supplying the crystal with current from two sources, namely the distant source of the incoming signals and the local oscillator which you have formed.

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

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