Synchronous demodulation / detection ! Today's radio receivers offer very high levels of performance and boast many facilities. Many radio receivers incorporate memories, phase locked loops, direct digital synthesis, digital signal processing and much more. One facility that can be very useful on the short wave bands is synchronous detection or synchronous demodulation as this can give much improved performance for receiving amplitude modulation (AM) transmissions. Unfortunately little is written about this form of modulation, and often it is a matter of accepting that it must be better than any normal options because it is included as a feature in the receiver specification. ! Synchronous detection is used for the detection or demodulation of amplitude modulation (AM). This form of modulation is still widely used for broadcasting on the long, medium and short wave bands despite the fact that there are more efficient forms of modulation that can be used today. The main reason for...