local oscillator
Britishnoun
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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
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
They then radiated a signal at this frequency, modulated at the frequency to which the local oscillator was set.
From Tom Swift and The Visitor from Planet X by Appleton, Victor [pseud.]
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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