RF interference issue again (esp. for E Drucker and Jim Weir and other RF wizards)

Back in the old days we did it by trial and error and glommed onto what worked
best. When the digital computer came along, we got a full blown printout of the
inter/cross/spuri mod products across a frequency band and picked a
frequency(ies) for the IF that produced minimum spurious products.

Note the word MINIMUM. There has never been a receiver produced by the
superheterodyne process that is totally free of spurious, including the
magnificent Collins S-line or 51J series of receivers.

Jim



"Paul Sengupta"
shared these priceless pearls of wisdom:

-Blimey, thanks. Any idea how they decide to use these figures? Just out of
-curiosity.
-
-Paul
-
-"Jim Weir" wrote in message
.. .
- Nope. They are all over the map. I chose a random book from the
-library...it
- happens to be the King KX-170B. The high COM IF is 9.0M and the low COM
-IF is
- 861.25k. The high NAV IF is 15.1875M and the low NAV IF is 1.1857M. I
-could
- pick half a dozen books from the shelf and no two would be the same.
-

Jim Weir (A&P/IA, CFI, & other good alphabet soup)
VP Eng RST Pres. Cyberchapter EAA Tech. Counselor
http://www.rst-engr.com