Abstract: A direct conversion receiver for a radio system has an antenna and blocking filter connected to an amplifier. The input signal is split and mixed with an in-phase signal and a quadrature phase signal generated by an oscillator in a mixer circuit. An output from each mixer circuit is applied to a low pass filter and to an input of a limiting circuit. The output from each low pass filter is applied to respective circuits, a first of which is arranged to sum the in-phase and quadrature phase signals, and the second of which is arranged to subtract the in-phase and quadrature phase signals to generate a respective output signal having an axis intermediate the in-phase and quadrature phase signal axes. These signals, together with the in-phase and quadrature phase signals are passed through a limiting circuit respectively, to a decoder circuit for recovering the data. The output of the limiting circuits represent signals quantized to eight possible phase states separated by 45.degree..