[SOC] MCW via heterotone

Quikhooligan quikhooligan at yahoo.com
Fri Oct 5 13:41:46 EDT 2018


On 10/5/2018 10:37 AM, Tom Cooper via SOC wrote:
> Heterotone is the use of a tone oscillator to modulate the carrier in the receiver rather than using a BFO.  If there is no QRM it works and sounds great but all  carriers in the IF passband have the same tone, so if there are several, good luck.

No, it's not Heterotone.  What you are describing is Homotone.  Homotone
is the method of making all signals to have the same tone. Hence, we
develop a homogenous tone and use the word "Homotone" to describe the
process.







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