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Can anyone reccomend a good small surface mount FM receiver chip that is
currently availible?


Is it possible to do FM reception with a Direct conversion RX and some
simple DSP?


You can convert directly down to I and Q baseband with two mixers and a
quadrature oscillator, then demodulate the baseband signals with a DSP.

73 Leon
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Leon Heller, G1HSM

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