EET 304 COMMUNICATION SYSTEM ENGINEERING

TUTORIAL 2
CHAPTER 2

1. Define the AM demodulation process.

2. A 500W carrier is to be modulated to a 90 percent modulation. Determine the total
transmitted power.
3. An AM broadcast station operates at its maximum allowed total output of 50kW
and at 95 percent modulation. Determine the total sideband power
4. A transmitter with a 10kW carrier transmits 11.2 kW when modulated with a
single sine wave. Calculate the modulation index. If the carrier is simultaneously
modulated with another sine wave at 50 percent modulation, calculate the total
transmitted power.

5. An AM transmitter has a 1kW carrier and is modulated by three different sine

waves having equal amplitudes. If total modulation index is 0.8, calculate the
individual values of m and the total transmitted power.

6. An Amplitude Modulation (AM) radio broadcasting station with its carrier

frequency of 500 kHz is amplitude-modulated by a 3 kHz audio signal to produce
an AM envelope. The maximum and minimum peaks voltages of the envelope are
150Vp and 50Vp respectively. The equivalent resistance of the transmitting
antenna is 50 . Determine:
(i) The peak amplitudes of the audio, carrier and sideband voltages.
(ii) The modulation index, m.
(iii) Using the above results, write the complete AM mathematical
representation to express the waveform, showing its carrier, lower
sideband and upper sideband parameters.
(iv) Determine the bandwidth of the modulated signal.
(v) Power of the carrier signal and total sidebands power.
(vi) Sketch and label the power spectrum of the modulated signal.
7. A telecommunication engineer is given a task to assess the output power levels of
a transmitter with respect to different kind of modulation modes with the same
intelligibility received. Given that the antenna transmits a 15 kW of total power at
90% modulation, determine:
(i) The amount of carrier power, Pc delivers through the antenna.
(ii) The amount of power using Double-Side Band Suppressed Carrier
(DSBSC).
(iii) The amount of power using Single-Side Band Suppressed Carrier
(SSBSC).
(iv) The percentage power saving of SSBSC compares to Double-Side
Band Full Carrier (DSBFC).
(v) State TWO (2) disadvantages of SSBSC.

8. Transmitter efficiency for an AM Double Side Band Full Carrier (DSBFC) is

stated as the ratio of the average power from sidebands to the total power
absorbed. From the AM power distribution,
9. An input AM Double Side Band Suppressed Carrier (DSBSC) wave is an
unmodulated carrier voltage Vc = 20Vp, frequency of 250 kHz, and a load
resistor of 50. The frequency of the modulating signal is 15 kHz and modulation
index, m = 0.9. Determine the following:
(i) Powers of each of the upper and lower sidebands
(ii) Total power of the modulated wave
(iii) Bandwidth of the transmitted wave
(iv) Sketch the power and frequency spectrum
(v) Compare the power saving ratio (in percentage) if an AM Single Side
Band Suppressed Carrier (AM SSBSC) is used
(vi) Sketch the power and frequency spectrum for a AM SSBSC calculated
in (e).
 10. An AM modulated wave with the output wave changes of 7.5V p is

represent
by the following equation.

Vam ( t ) 20 sin(2500 103 ) t 3.75 cos(2510 103 ) t 3.75 cos(2490 103 ) t

Based on the information given,

(i) Calculate the modulation coefficient, m and percent modulation.

(ii) Calculate the peak amplitude of the modulated carrier, upper and lower
side frequency voltages.
(iii) Calculate the maximum and minimum amplitude of the envelope.
(iv) Draw and label the frequency spectrum.
(v) Sketch and label the output envelope.

11. Draw a block diagram of a basic filter type system SSB transmitter. Briefly
describe its operation.
12. Differentiate between coherent and non-coherent type of AM receiver.
13. Give three significant importance of modulation in electronic communications.
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