In the paper we examine the regimes of two coupled radio-physical generators that exhibit quasi-periodic oscillations, with reactive, combined, and active types of coupling. In order to simplify the computer calculations, a discrete version of the system being investigated is introduced. Lyapunov exponent charts illustrating various regimes, including quasi-periodic oscillations with a different number of incommensurable frequencies, are presented. For a purely reactive coupling, in comparison to a dissipative one, there is no stable equilibrium regime, and the areas of two-frequency regimes are very small in size. For dissipative coupling, with the addition of a reactive component, the characteristic regimes at strong coupling are preserved. When the coupling is weak, five-frequency regimes disappear; they are replaced first by four-frequency, and then by three-frequency, chaotic and hyperchaotic ones. For reactive coupling with the addition of dissipative, the tongues of the three-frequency regimes do not have peaks, but occupy certain intervals on the frequency disorder axis. There is also no stable equilibrium for an active (repelling) coupling. A three-frequency area with a built-in set of resonant two-frequency tongues becomes typical, the overlap of which leads to chaos.
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