"gareth" wrote in message
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I feel that I understand something when I can explain it to
a rank amateur such that they will also understand it, but
one thing I have yet to understand is the purpose of the quenching
action in superregeneration, apart from thequenching itself.

How does the quenching of an oscillating stage yield a detector
that works for AM, FM and / or SSB, when the quenching frequency
is supersonic, and neither at the RF nor the AF frequencies?


Everything I wanted to know, and more besides ...

http://www.eix.co.uk/Articles/Radio/Welcome.htm

Thanks, BrianM, but google never occurred to me. But perhaps it is always
best to attempt technical discussion in the NG to encourage newcomers,
even though M3OSN will attempt to stifle such dissemination of information?