Over the winter, [Michael LeBlanc] thought a good way to spend his time during those long dark nights would be to scratch build his own direct conversion receiver. He was able to find plans for such a ...

Direct down conversion, and its companion, very low IF (VLIF) or near-zero IF, are approaches that have essentially changed the face of the receive chain in a mobile handset. For the designer, it is ...

Cellular operators have longed for the ability to deploy versatile wireless infrastructure that can be field programmed to serve a range of cellular services. Ultimately the wireless infrastructure ...

Communications receiver architecture has evolved slowly over the years. The most common and successful configuration is the superheterodyne architecture, which translates the incoming signal to a ...

A couple of years ago one of the Hackaday Prize finalists was a project to take highschoolers through building a direct conversion radio receiver for the 40 metre amateur band. It was originated by ...