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Demetrios J Matsakis

Ronald W Minarik

Stephen P Caldwell

Kenneth M Schmidt

Benjamin F Weigand

Arnold B Siegel

Robert S Prill

Marvine Harris Jr

A wideband RF-to-IF frequency converter providing multiple use of frequency conversion components for many different types of RF input signals. In specific examples, many different types of signals for communication, navigation, and for interrogation are processed through at least partly common frequency-conversion channels. Such RF input signals in the range from approximately 2 MHz to 2,000 MHz are converted to output IF frequencies, such as 1 MHz and 30 MHz, for further processing in the common receiver. Some narrow band signals, after conversion to IF, are subjected to off-center filtering in relatively broadband IF filters. Input RF filters are not used. Among several frequency conversion stages, only one of the local oscillator signals is tunable; but it is made tunable in relatively small, precise steps by using a double phase-locked loop arrangement in the frequency synthesizer.

Wide band radio-frequency converter having multiple use of intermediate

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Ellicott City, MD, United States of America

Demetrios J Matsakis