Talk:Receiver (radio)
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I'm a little worried this article has become overmerged. There was once receiver (electronics) which made sense for some applications; there should also be receiver (telecommunications). Both are different than the receiver appliances that are discussed in this topic. -- Mikeblas 20:16, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
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- I would agree, in that a discussion of what we used to call a "Hi-Fi Receiver" (integrated receiver) has seemed to overwrite the basic "radio" receiver
- a break out of
- Receiver (radio)
- Receiver (High Fidelity) or (audio)
- Receiver (communications)
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- would not IMHO be out of line, with links to each other of course. cmacd 14:55, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
I've removed some interesting text from this article about the history of radio. While unreferenced, it was pretty welll-written. I think it would be far more appropriate at the Radio article, which has a "History" section. -- Mikeblas 19:06, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Contradiction
Receiver (radio) "The first integrated stereo receiver was made by the Harman Kardon company, and came onto the market in 1958. It had undistingushed (sic) performance..."
Harman Kardon "One year after its founding, harman/kardon introduced the world's first true high-fidelity receiver, the Festival D1000. This monaural unit was not only aimed at non-technical consumers but also incorporated many now-familiar features such as the incorporation of a tuner, component control unit and amplifier on a single chassis."
I find on one hand ascribing "undistinguished performance" to the Festival D1000 in Receiver (radio), and then at Harmon Kardon labeling the Festival D1000 to be a "high-fidelity receiver" to be contradictory. - MSTCrow 03:14, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] History section
Added a needed history section focused specifically on the development of the radio receiver, based on a comprehensive overview document source. Will find more variety of sources to add. - LuckyLouie 19:10, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Russian inventions category
Since the first radio reciver was invented by a Russian, Popov, it's category is Russian inventions, just like Tank is in British inventions, since the first to built it was British, and thats why it's categorised in British inventions. Shpakovich (talk) 21:54, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Inputs
All other common audio/visual components can use any of the identical line-level inputs on the receiver for playback, regardless of how they are marked (the "name" on each input is mostly for the convenience of the user.) For instance, a second CD player can be plugged into an "Aux" input, and will work the same as it will in the "CD" input jacks
... except mic inputs, which are found on some home stereos Tabby (talk) 07:56, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] 1930s radios
"by the mid 1930s virtually all receiving sets in Europe as well were using the superhet principle"
this is simply not the case. There are a number of standard radio configurations seen in the 30s as technology progressed, but only a small minority were superhets, which were at the time simply unaffordable to the great majority of buyers. A trip to any suitable museum will show you what was in general use at the time.
Superhets established dominance by the 50s. Tabby (talk) 07:56, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] RF probe
I think that the article RF probe should be merged into this article as it is too short and not important enough to have it's own article page. Khaledelmansoury (talk) 21:25, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
