Radio Receivers
The controlled oscillator synthesizer is sometimes preferred over the direct one because

It is relatively free of spurious frequency
It is a simpler piece of equipment
It does not require crystal oscillator
Its frequency stability is better

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Radio Receivers
In a ratio detector

the circuit is the same as in a discriminator, except that the diodes are reversed
the output is twice that obtainable from a similar phase discriminator
stabilization against signal strength variations is provided
the linearity is worse than in phase discriminator

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