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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 27, 1981
Filed:
Jan. 04, 1979
Markus Nowogrodzki, Sussex, NJ (US);
RCA Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and means for translating frequencies, as for example, to correct a frequency error .DELTA.f.sub.d introduced into a carrier signal of frequency f.sub.c, comprising means for dividing the resultant signal frequency (f.sub.c +.DELTA.f.sub.d) by N, resulting in a divided-down frequency (f.sub.c /N+.DELTA.f.sub.d /N), with .DELTA.f.sub.d being reduced to .DELTA.f.sub.d /N, and then heterodyning the divided-down frequency with signal of frequency (f.sub.c +f.sub.c /N) to produce a resultant signal of frequency (f.sub.c +.DELTA.f.sub.d /N), the frequency error remaining at its low, divided level .DELTA.f.sub.d /N. In the case of two or more signals spaced apart by predetermined frequency spacings, such frequency spacings can be reduced to predetermined values by dividing said signals by a common divisor M with the frequency spacings also being divided by M and then heterodyning the divided-down frequencies upwardly to desired frequencies with the frequency spacings remaining at their desired reduced values.