Abstract: There is provided a method of configuring a radio receiver, the radio receiver comprising signal receiving means, and at least one adjustable component coupled to the signal receiving means; the method comprising setting the at least one component to a first value selected from a plurality of values; measuring the quality of a signal received via the signal receiving means and the at least one adjustable component; repeating the steps of setting and measuring for at least a second value selected from the plurality of values; and determining the value of the at least one adjustable component that provides the highest measured signal quality.

Abstract: Manually tunable analog receivers with AFC have the drawback that the AFC exhibits hysteresis and that in the event of fading pulling to an adjacent station may occur, whereas receivers with PLL electronic tuning have the drawbacks that tuning is comparatively slow and also inaccurate because of the tuning in discrete steps by a microprocessor. The present receiver combines the advantages of both analog manual tuning and electronic tuning. It includes two cooperating frequency loops, one loop (L1) being an AFC loop and the other loop (L2) having a frequency counter (13) for measuring the frequency (f.sub.0) of a tuning oscillator (6) which is controlled by both loops. Cooperation between the loops is provided by a control circuit (16) responsive to control signals supplied by both loops: an in-lock signal (in-1) and an in-window signal (in-w). Preferably, when the desired tuning is achieved, the power to a tuning section (12) of the receiver, forming part of the frequency loop (L2), is interrupted.

Abstract: A tuning detection circuit for a high-frequency modulated RF signal which is within the frequency band of a receiver. A level signal (1e) is derived which is a measure of a level of the modulated RF signal, and is combined with a signal from a window comparator (20, 21) to which a filtered demodulated signal derived from the modulated RF signal is applied. The detection circuit supplies an in-channel signal (in-1) which indicates whether a desired tuning state has been reached. To prevent that upon detection of stations in a busy frequency band incorrect in-channel signals (in-1) are generated, i.e., signals indicating that the tuning process has been completed even though tuning is actually between two stations instead of to one station, the detection device also combines the level and in-channel signals with output signals of the window comparator, compared by means of a phase comparator (50).