In accordance with one aspect of the disclosure, apparatus are provided. A filter is provided to receive from an antenna a receive signal of a given type and a low noise amplifier is provided to amplify the received signal. A translator down translates the receive signal carried at a radio frequency to be carried at an intermediate frequency. An I/Q channel separator is provided to separate the receive signal carried at the intermediate frequency into an analog in-phase (I) signal in an I channel and an analog quadrature-phase (Q) in a Q channel. An analog-to-digital (A/D) converter is provided to respectively convert the I signal and the Q signal to digital domain representations of the I signal and the Q signal. An intermodulation (IM) distortion avoider is provided to avoid IM distortion in the receive signal. The IM distortion avoider includes a carrier frequency exchanger to exchange an IM carrier frequency of IM distortion contained in the receive signal with a carrier frequency of the receive signal.