The hand-held unit is the transmitter. The receiver is built into the opener's drive box. The typical openers of a couple of decades ago used "DIP switches" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIP_switch ) to set a code. The remote and the drive had to have the same code or the door wouldn't open. An 8-pole DIP switch has 256 possible codes to minimize the chance of your inadvertently opening your neighbor's garage door or vice versa (if you had the same opener).
Remote controlled gates are powered by buttons that send signals to receivers located on the gates. Once the signals are received the gates open.
There is no timing to set. The timing is controlled by the ECM with signals it receives from various sensors.
it receives signals and sends out signals
Fuhhkin cows
Antenna
Radiates and/or receives radio signals.
Analog signals can be received using an analog receiver.
Dendrites
it receives it by signals
dendrite
receives and transmits signals
left side