local oscillator
Britishnoun
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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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