Image rejection is an important factor in choosing the intermediate frequency of a receiver.
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IF increases the receiver's " image rejection " without requiring additional selectivity in the RF stage.
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The ability of a receiver to reject interfering signals at the image frequency is measured by the image rejection ratio.
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The ability of the receiver to reject this image gives the image rejection ratio ( IMRR ) of the system.
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IF "', the higher the IF, the farther apart these two frequencies are, and the better the image rejection.
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In order to suppress local oscillator leakage and provide a slight amount of image rejection, a varactor and a coil provide one stage of tracking bandpass filtering.
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Since the frequency separation between the bandpass and the image frequency is 2f _ \ mathrm { IF } \ !, a higher intermediate frequency improves image rejection.
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This image rejection filter does not need great selectivity, but as the receiver is tuned to different frequencies it must " track " in tandem with the LO.
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"' Double-conversion superheterodyne "': In choosing the intermediate frequency ( IF ) used in a superhet, there is a tradeoff between image rejection and selectivity.
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RF, but in some modern receivers ( e . g . scanners and spectrum analyzers ) a higher IF frequency is used to minimize problems with image rejection or gain the benefits of fixed-tuned stages.