
The autodyne circuit was an improvement to radio signal amplification using the De Forest Audion vacuum tube amplifier. By allowing the tube to oscillate at a frequency slightly different from the desired signal, the sensitivity over other receivers was greatly improved. The autodyne circuit was discovered by Edwin Howard Armstrong of Columbia Uni...
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a type of heterodyne circuit containing a vacuum tube or transistor that acts simultaneously as a detector and oscillator.
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