A QUICK REVIEW

To quickly review all that has been covered to this point, I will follow an RF signal through the general transmitter and receiver block diagrams introduced in Figures 3-2 and 3-1, repeated here for convenience.

Transmitter Block Diagram

Figure 3-22. Transmitter block diagram.

Receiver Block Diagram

Figure 3-23. Receiver block diagram.

Review

Transmitter

Starting with the transmitter, a power supply is connected to the oscillator and out comes a perfect sine wave (hopefully) at 500 MHz. Next, another signal is injected, ...

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