PHAROS UNIVERSITY Third Year

Faculty of Engineering Electrical Engineering Department

Subject Name: EE 251 (Analog Communication) Lecturer: Dr. Marwa M. Tharwat

Spring 2011

SHEET 2
Amplitude Modulation

1. The signal shown in figure represents a single tone transmission using AM modulation

Find:
a) The frequency of the modulating signal.
b) The carrier frequency.
c) The modulation index.
d) Write down an expression for the modulated signal vAM(t).
e) Find and sketch the spectrum of the modulated signal SAM(f).
f) What is the transmitted BW
g) Find the value of the carrier power Pc as well as that of the useful power.
h) Calculate the value of the modulation efficiency.

2. The transmitted power of an onset AM modulator is 10 KW. If after modulation (using

the same transmitter) with index of modulation of 0.7, one side band is suppressed and the
carrier component is reduced by 12 dB.

Find
a. The total transmitted power in this case
b. The modulation efficiency
c. Name this type of modulation technique.

3. For the base-band signal Vm(t) whose spectrum in figure,

with W is the message BW (W=1KHz). If this signal is
applied to a product modulator , together with a carrier

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PHAROS UNIVERSITY Third Year
Faculty of Engineering Electrical Engineering Department

Subject Name: EE 251 (Analog Communication) Lecturer: Dr. Marwa M. Tharwat

Spring 2011
wave , producing the DSBSC modulated wave VDSBSC(t).This modulated
wave is applied to a coherent detector. Assuming perfect synchronism between the carrier
waves in the modulator and the detector, determine the spectrum of the detector output
when : i) fc=1.25 KHZ ii) fc=1.25 KHZ
a) In which case the signal Vm(t) could be reconstructed.
b) What is the lowest carrier frequency in order that each component of the
modulated signal is uniquely determined by Vm(t).

4. In the above transmitter

a) Name the system that represents the above block diagram.

b) Sketch the spectrum of the transmitted signal.
c) Sketch the PSD of the transmitted signal.
d) What is the transmission BW of each channel
e) Evaluate the total average transmitted power of each channel , as well as the total
transmitted power.

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Faculty of Engineering Electrical Engineering Department

Subject Name: EE 251 (Analog Communication) Lecturer: Dr. Marwa M. Tharwat

Spring 2011
5. In the system shown in figure

The modulating signal

The low pass filter BW is W1=10 Khz
The AM modulator is specified by .
a) Sketch the spectrum of the transmitted signal.
b) Sketch the PSD of the transmitted signal.
c) What is the transmission BW.
d) Evaluate the total average transmitted power .

6. The antenna current of an AM transmitter is given by

a) Find and sketch its spectrum as well as its PSD, Then deduce the approximate
transmission BW.
b) Find the value of the modulation index
c) Calculate the carrier power as well as the usefull power
d) Assume the use of an omni directional antenna, and the channel is noisy channel having
AWGN with zero mean and two sided power spectral density of intensity 10-8 w/Hz
around the carrier frequency, and with the receiver is located at 1 Km from the transmitter
e) What would be the received power
f) Evaluate the noise power supplied by the channel.
g) Calculate the SNR at the front end of the receiving antenna.

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