[MilCom] Discriminator tap

[Bryan Herbert]

The discriminator is used as a clean audio tap primarily for high
speed digital communications. Back in the late 80s and 90s it was a
hot item for those that wanted to illegally decode POCSAG and FLEX
pagers as well as police car MDTs. Now a days its used to legally
decode APT weather satellite signals, high speed packet/telemetry from
amateur satellites and ATCS/EOT devices used on locomotives.

On 6/12/05, Duane Mantick <wb9omc at nlci.com> wrote:
> 
> Well, it seems to me that if I'm paying top dollar for
> a receiver the danged thing OUGHT to be able to read
> out the correct frequency.  All the other DSP and
> assorted bells and whistles they put in there and
> gouge your wallet for, and they can't have an accurate
> frequency readout?
> 
> Someone's design department is slacking....particularly
> if all you have to have is a zero-center meter connected
> to a single-point connection on the radio.  That should
> be incorporated in the design, not as an aftermarket
> item, IMHO.
> 
> Duane
> WB9OMC
> Indiana

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