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Article #8Re: Question about frequency modulation
From: Tony Quinn
Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 18:41
Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 18:41
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In message <gvmlc6$qgb$3@usenet01.srv.cis.pitt.edu>, GregS <zekfrivo@zekfrivolous.com> writes >In article ><1a86fd28-bebe-4f09-8d0b-1a6685d01ce3@b34g2000pra.googlegroups.com>, >GreenXenon <glucegen1x@gmail.com> wrote: >>Hi: >> >>In frequency modulation: >> >>Increasing the modulator=92s amplitude will increase the extent to which >>the carrier frequency varies from baseband. In other words, a larger >>modulation amplitude will cause the carrier to occupy a larger range >>of frequencies than a smaller modulation amplitude >> >>Increasing the modulator=92s frequency will increase the rate in which >>the carrier frequency changes. So why is it impossible to transmit a >>higher-frequency modulator signal on a lower-frequency FM carrier >>signal? > >If you got 100 mHz carrier a 1 Ghz modulator >it will try to give byproducts which can't be had. A minus 1.1 Ghz is >impossible. > >Kind of like aliasing I think.. You mean folded sidebands, familiar to all old-school VT engineers. -- If one person has delusions, we call them psychotic. If, however, 1.5 billion people have delusions we must apparently call them a religious group, and respect their delusionary state.
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