Récepteur radioUn récepteur radio, aussi appelé simplement radio ou poste de radio, est un appareil électronique destiné à capter, sélectionner et décoder les ondes radioélectriques émises par les émetteurs radio. La fonction de décodage consiste à extraire des ondes captées, les informations qui y ont été incorporées lors de l'émission : sons ou signaux numériques (RDS, DRM, DAB, signaux horaires). Le terme « radio » provient de la simplification de l'expression « récepteur d’émissions diffusées par ondes radiophoniques ».
Detector (radio)In radio, a detector is a device or circuit that extracts information from a modulated radio frequency current or voltage. The term dates from the first three decades of radio (1888-1918). Unlike modern radio stations which transmit sound (an audio signal) on an uninterrupted carrier wave, early radio stations transmitted information by radiotelegraphy. The transmitter was switched on and off to produce long or short periods of radio waves, spelling out text messages in Morse code.
Product detectorA product detector is a type of demodulator used for AM and SSB signals. Rather than converting the envelope of the signal into the decoded waveform like an envelope detector, the product detector takes the product of the modulated signal and a local oscillator, hence the name. A product detector is a frequency mixer. Product detectors can be designed to accept either IF or RF frequency inputs.
DemodulationDemodulation is extracting the original information-bearing signal from a carrier wave. A demodulator is an electronic circuit (or computer program in a software-defined radio) that is used to recover the information content from the modulated carrier wave. There are many types of modulation so there are many types of demodulators. The signal output from a demodulator may represent sound (an analog audio signal), images (an analog video signal) or binary data (a digital signal).
