you can also have the benefits of both by building a super-regenerative
superhetrodyne receiver ;-) the old Boy Scout Radio Merit Badge from the
1960s had such a design, which I built at the time, and the resulting
radio receiver outperformed many commercial models costing much more ;-)

grins bobm
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