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by grendelt 2016 days ago
"Let's see, my crystal radio only has this one diode but it can only receive AM. I bet if I cut it I can hear everything!"
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Well funnily enough you can actually get some heavily distorted but still intelligible audio out of an FM channel demodulating it as AM if you shift the frequency over off of the center of the channel and decrease the bandwidth to only get half of the FM bandwidth. First time I heard that while playing around with a SDR I was so confused as to how that was working.