[Elecraft] Intermod or mixing?>>>CORRECTION!

[Richard]

Thank you Dick.  Nicely done.

Sent from my iPhone

On Jun 12, 2010, at 21:30, "Dick Roth, KA1OZ" <raroth7 at comcast.net>  
wrote:

> Regarding Intermod, I misspoke when stating that there was a  
> harmonic relationship.  I meant to say a relationship between the  
> sum and difference frequencies that yield products up and down the  
> band spaced these difference frequencies.
>
> Sorry,
>
> Dick
>
>
>
> Mixing is a general term for combining any two or more signals  
> through the process of heterodyning.
>
> Intermod is a specific form of mixing which combines harmonic  
> products of two RF signals:  the desired receive signal and an  
> undesired, accidental signal, yielding a series of harmonically  
> related RF byproducts that can impair the receive pass band.
>
> I hope I stated this correctly and that it helps to differentiate  
> the two terms adequately.
>
>
> Richard wrote:
>> Would someone please furnish definitions of these two terms, and
>> explain the difference between them--if there really is a difference.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>
> [snip]
>
> -- 
> 73,
> Dick ka1oz
> Middleborough, MA
>
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