Simplified high frequency tuner and tuning method

Details Simplified high frequency tuner and tuning method Simplified high frequency tuner and tuning method

2011-04-12

2011-04-12

Jackson, Blane J (Department: 2618)

Telecommunications

Receiver or analog modulated signal frequency converter

Noise or interference elimination

C455S337000, C455S323000, C455S296000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07925238

ABSTRACT:
A disclosed method tunes a signal from a channelized spectrum having a predetermined channel spacing. A signal of interest having a predetermined maximum bandwidth is mixed with a local oscillator signal, which has a frequency that is an integer multiple of the channel spacing or one-half of a channel spacing displaced from an integer multiple of the channel spacing. The local oscillator signal is selected to frequency translate the signal of interest to within a near-baseband passband whose lower edge is spaced from DC by at least about the maximum bandwidth of the signal of interest. Problems associated with 1/f noise, DC offsets, and self-mixing products are avoided or substantially diminished. Other methods and systems are also disclosed.

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