Receiver arrangement formed by a plurality of receive branches

A receiver arrangement comprising at least first and second receive branches for receiving a wave whose frequency spectrum is practically constant in a predetermined frequency band, a phase shifting circuit inserted in the second receive branch, the first receive branch having a constant phase shift, a first combining circuit connected to outputs of the first and second receive branches for producing a first combined signal by combining the waves at the outputs of the first and second receive branches, a phase modulator connected to the output of the first receive branch;

• a second combining circuit connected to outputs of the phase modulator and the second receive branch for producing a second combined signal by combining the waves at the outputs of the phase modulator and the second branch, an oscillation circuit connected to the phase modulator for adjusting a phase shift introduced by the phase modulator, a frequency discriminator coupled to an output of the first combining circuit for analyzing said first combined signal, an adjustable selective circuit coupled to the frequency discriminator and an output of the second combining circuit for obtaining a frequency band of the second combined signal as a function of an output signal of said discriminator, an envelope detector connected to an output of the selective circuit, and a phase measuring circuit connected to outputs of the oscillation circuit and the envelope detector and to a control input of said phase shifting circuit for measuring a phase difference between signals at the outputs of the oscillation circuit and the envelope detector and for adjusting the phase shifting circuit as a function of the measured phase difference.