[ARC5] A discussion on AGC.

Wed May 10 12:23:31 EDT 2017

On 10 May 2017 at 9:17, Ian Wilson wrote:

> 
> A triode has enough nonlinearity to be able to demodulate AM. The various 
> flavours of triode detector are biased to choose a region of curvature that
> provides reasonable detection efficiency versus distortion of the AM envelope.

Yes. It is all in the "biasing".

Witness the "Pullen Mixer".

Ken

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