(communications) A steady, high-pitched audio tone heard in an ordinary amplitude-modulation radio receiver under certain conditions when two signals that differ slightly in carrier frequency enter the receiver and heterodyne to produce an audio beat. Also known as heterodyne interference.
heterodyne whistle
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