Course name : Electronics & Video Engineering Course Code :EV

Semester : Fourth

Subject Title : Telecommunication System Subject Code: 9078

Teaching And Examination Scheme:

Teaching Scheme Examination Scheme

PAPER
TH TU PR TH TEST PR OR TW TOTAL
HRS
03 -- 02 03 80 20 50# -- -- 150

Rationale:

As a core technology subject, this will clear the concept and principle used
in a electronic telecommunication. Concept such as radiation and propagation of
waves, antennas, reception and demodulation which are widely used in the field
of analog and digital communication are delt in this subject.

Objectives:

The student will be able to:

1. Understand the concept of wave propagation and transmission line.

2. Understand the construction and working of antennas.
3. Test and troubleshooting of radio receiver.
4. Carry out Alignment of radio receiver.
 Learning Structure:

Application Test, troubleshoot and maintain radio receiver

Conduct preliminary test, signal substitution test, Perform IF/RF

Procedure voltage analysis method, Ohmic test, wave form alignment
analysis method

Propagation and Diode

Super characteristics
reception of heterodyne
Principle and principles of
electromagnetic principle filtering
waves

Image frequency.
Radiation Demodu Tracking,
Concept Modulating carrier,
mechanism lation Tuning
and modulated
signal, intermediate
frequency

Types of AM and FM Detector Tuned circuit

Facts antennas receiver, RF stages, stage and
types of converter AF stage
stages, local
oscillator, IF stage
Contents: Theory
Chapter Name of the Topic Hours Marks
Wave Propagation and Transmission line
1.1 Fundamentals of electromagnetic wave.
1.2 Transverse electromagnetic wave, Polarization
1.3 Ground wave
1.4 Sky wave
1.5 Space wave
1.6 Concept of actual height and virtual height.
1.7 Definition: - Critical frequency, max. Usable freq.
Skip distance, fading.
1.8 Troposphere’s scatter propagation.
01 1.9 Fundamentals of transmission line. 12 16
1.10 Types of transmission line
1.11 Equivalent circuit of transmission line.
1.12 Characteristics of transmission line – method of
calculation.
1.13 Standing waves, SWR, VSWR.
1.14 Determination of reflection coefficient,
impedance matching, stub Matching: single,
double.
1.15 Losses of transmission line.

Antenna
2.1 Basic consideration of antenna.
2.2 Radiation mechanism.
2.3 Radiation pattern.
2.4 Antenna gain and directivity.
2.5 Antenna resistance.
2.6 Beam width, Bandwidth and polarization.
2.7 Half wave antenna.
02 06 10
2.8 Dipole antenna.
2.9 Folded dipole antenna.
2.10 Hertz antenna.
2.11 Loop antenna.
2.12 Antenna required for radio reception.
2.13 Telescopic antenna.
2.14 Yagi antenna.

03 AM Radio Receiver 12 24
 3.1 Tuned radio freq. (TRF) receiver, block diagram.
3.2 AM super-heterodyne radio receiver, block diagram
3.3 Parameter of AM radio receiver.
3.4 Image freq. And its rejection, double spotting.
3.5 Self excited converter.
3.6 Super-heterodyne tracking and tuning.
3.7 I.F. and choice of I.F.
3.8 Two stage I.F. amplifier.
3.9 Diode detector circuit
3.10 AGC and various AGC methods (forward and
reverse)

FM Radio Receiver
4.1 Block diagram of FM radio receiver.
4.2 FM detector: Slope detector, Balance slope
detector, Foster Seley detector,
04 Ratio detector. - circuit diagram 10 16
4.3 PLL (block diagram and operation) explanation with
vector diagram.
4.4 AFC – concept.

Alignment and Troubleshooting of AM/FM Radio

Receiver
5.1 Necessity of alignment
5.2 Specification and rating of radio receiver, sensitivity,
selectivity and fidelity, frequency response and
wattage.
5.3 RF (band) alignment
05 5.4 IF alignment. 08 14
5.5 Troubleshooting methods of typical fault of AM and
FM receiver Preliminary test-main chord test, power
supply test, current drain test, observation test, signal
substitution test, voltage analysis test, resistance
analysis method, wave from analysis method,
5.6 Study of commercial receiver circuit diagram.

Total 48 80
Practical:
Skills to be developed:

Intellectual skills:

1. Ability to inspect, analyze and record Transmission line properties.

2. Ability to study the directional pattern of any or given antenna using
field strength meter
3. Ability to apply AM input from AM generator to the radio receiver.
4. Ability to identify the different stages of AM radio receiver.
5. Ability to identify components and follow the instruction as given.
6. Ability to analyzing and recording voltages at different test point of AM
radio receiver.
7. Ability to inspect and analyzing of freq. adjustment of RF and IF stage.
8. Ability to locate the fault by logical analysis of symptom.
9. Ability to verify the output of each stage with std. value.

Motor skills:

1. Installing and testing of experimental set up and tabulate

the reading.
2. Skill to connect the instrument and plot the directional pattern of
antenna on polar paper.
3. Installing and testing of experimental set up and tabulate the reading.
4. Skill to draw the layout of AM radio receiver.
5. Skill to interpret the voltages at the different test point using digital
multimeter as per procedure.
6. Skill to set up experimental kit, observe and tabulate the readings of
experiment.
7. Skill to perform fault finding and Skill to handle the CRO/digital
multimeter for testing.

List of Practical: (ANY TEN)

1. To measure parameters of transmission line.

2. To measure attenuation of transmission line.

3. To measure frequency characteristic of transmission line.

4. To measure the stationary wave of transmission line.

5. To Plot directional pattern of given antenna.

 6. To plot sensitivity characteristic curve of AM radio receiver.

7. To observe different section and draw layout of AM radio receiver.

8. To measure the Voltages of different section of transistorized AM radio

receiver.

9. To observe different section and draw Layout of FM radio receiver.

10. To calculate bandwidth and plot graph between output voltage and input
freq. of ratio detector.

11. Band alignment in AM radio receiver.

12. IF alignment in AM radio receiver.

13. To observe the symptom, do logical analysis and rectify the fault in AM
radio receiver.

14. To observe the symptom, do logical analysis and rectify the fault in FM
radio receiver.

List of practice oriented projects: (ANY ONE)

1. PCB design of AM/ FM transmitter

2. PCB design of AM/ FM receiver
3. PCB design of ratio detector / PLL detector.

Learning Resources:
Books:

Sr.
Author Title Publisher
No.
Electronic communication Mc graw –Hill Book Co. ltd.
01 George Kennedy
system Singapore
Dennis Roddy & Prentice Hall of India Pvt. Ltd,
02 Electronic Communication
John Coolen New delhi
03 S. Rambhadran Telecommunication Khanna Publication
Electronic communication
04 Wayne Tomasi Prentice Hall
system
Mc graw –Hill Book Co. ltd.
05 Frenzal Communiction Electronics
Singapore