Assignment Number 2: AM

Bryan Paul R. de Guzman

COMMS1, T32
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
FEU Institute of Technology, Manila
deguzman.bryanpaul@yahoo.com

1. A ham transmitter has a carrier power of 750 W. How 4. An SSB transmitter with a carrier of 2.3 MHz is modulated
much power is added to the signal when the transmitter is by an intelligence signal in the 150 Hz to 4.2 kHz range.
100 percent modulated? Calculate the frequency range of the lower sideband.

5. A subcarrier of 70 kHz is amplitude-modulated by tones of

2. An SSB transmitter has a power supply voltage of 250 V.
On voice peaks, the final amplifier draws a current of 3.3
A. What is the input PEP?
2.1 and 6.8 kHz. The resulting AM signal is then used to
amplitude-modulate a carrier of 12.5 MHz. Calculate all
sideband frequencies in the composite signal, and draw a
frequency-domain display of the signal. Assume 100
percent modulation. What is the bandwidth occupied by
the complete signal?

3. The peak-to-peak output voltage of 675 V appears across a

52-ohm antenna on voice peaks in an SSB transmitter. 6. If the carrier of a 100 percent modulated AM wave is
What is the output PEP? suppressed, what is the percentage power saving will be?

7. If the carrier and one sideband of an 80% modulated AM

wave are suppressed, what is the percentage power saving
Date assignment was performed/given: January 30, 2017. will be?
Date assignment was submitted: February 2, 2017.

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 10. How many percent of the total transmitted power is
present in the sidebands in an A3E system?

8. An AM signal is 88% modulated and has a carrier voltage

of 67 V. What is the total modulated voltage?

11. When a broadcast AM transmitter is 80% modulated, its

antenna current is 15 A. What will be the new output
current when the modulation depth is increased by 95%?

9. An AM transmitter supplies 10 kW of carrier power to a

50-ohm load. It operates at a carrier frequency of 1.2 MHz
and is 80% modulated by a 3 kHz sine wave. Calculate the
rms voltage of the signal.

12. An AM signal has a carrier frequency of 3 MHz and

amplitude of 5V peak. It is modulated by a sine wave with
a frequency of 500 Hz and a peak voltage of 2 V. Write an
equation for this signal and calculate the modulation index

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