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As we can see in below figure, when f1 (RF freq) is subtracted from f2 (LO freq),
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Reasons for using IF :

Intermediate frequencies are used for three general reasons. At very

high13(gigahertz)
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poorly. Active devices such as transistor cannot deliver much

amplification (gain). Ordinary circuits using capacitors and inductors
must be replaced with cumbersome high frequency techniques such as
striplines and waveguides. So a high frequency signal is converted to a
lower IF for more convenient processing. For example, in satellite
dishes, the microwave downlink signal received by the dish is converted
to a much lower IF at the dish, to allow a relatively inexpensive coaxial
cable to carry the signal to the receiver inside the building. Bringing the
signal in at the original microwave frequency would require an
expensive waveguide.

A second reason, in receivers that can be tuned to different frequencies,

is to convert the various different frequencies of the stations to a
common frequency for processing. It is difficult to build multistage
amplifiers, filters, and detectors that can have all stages track in tuning
different frequencies, but it is comparatively easy to build tunable
oscillators. Superheterodyne receivers tune in different frequencies by
adjusting the frequency of the local oscillator on the input stage, and all
processing after that is done at the same fixed frequency, the IF.
Without using an IF, all the complicated filters and detectors in a radio
or television would have to be tuned in unison each time the frequency
was changed, as was necessary in the early tuned radio frequency
receivers.

The main reason for using an intermediate frequency is to improve

frequency selectivity. In communication circuits, a very common task is
to separate out or extract signals or components of a signal that are
close together in frequency. This is called filtering. Some examples are,
picking up a radio station among several that are close in frequency, or
extracting the chrominance subcarrier from a TV signal. With all known
filtering techniques the filter's bandwidth increases proportionately
with the frequency. So a narrower bandwidth and more selectivity can
be achieved by converting the signal to a lower IF and performing the
filtering at that frequency. FM and television broadcasting with their
narrow channel widths, as well as more modern telecommunications
services such as cell phones and cable television, would be impossible
without using frequency conversion.

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