Down-converter

A method for down-converting a radio frequency signal into a plurality of intermediate frequency signals, the method comprising:

• receiving a multiband radio frequency signal and a local oscillator signal generated by a single oscillator;
• and
• receiving the same plurality of different divided local oscillator signals derived from the single oscillator at two heterodyne receive chains for down-converting the multiband radio frequency signal and receiving the multiband radio frequency signal with different polarizations at each heterodyne receive chain, comprising:
• mixing a signal derived from the radio frequency signal with a divided local oscillator signal derived from the local oscillator signal in order to obtain a first intermediate frequency signal without an additional frequency multiplier;
• dividing the frequency of a signal derived from the local oscillator signal by a first factor in order to obtain a first divided local oscillator signal;
• mixing a signal derived from the radio frequency signal with a divided local oscillator signal derived from the local oscillator signal in order to obtain a first intermediate frequency signal without an additional frequency multiplier;
• dividing the frequency of a signal derived from the local oscillator signal by a second factor in order to obtain a second divided local oscillator signal, wherein the second factor is different to the first factor;
• and
• mixing the first intermediate frequency signal with the second divided local oscillator signal in order to obtain a second output intermediate frequency signal,
• wherein the first and second output intermediate frequency signals represent bands from the multiband radio frequency signal.