On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 05:30:02 +0000 (UTC), chesucat
said in rec.radio.scanner:

Al Klein wrote:
"A discriminator is a circuit that voice-band filters the base-band audio
coming out of the FM detector, so that the audio coming out of the speaker
and headphone jack sounds good."

AKWhoever you're quoting should first have learned what a discriminator
AKdoes. That's not it.

You know who I am quoting, Al!

Nope.

A discriminator is the part of an FM receiver that extracts the desired
signal from an incoming FM wave by changing frequency variations into
amplitude variations.

Yep.