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Receiver principles
Amplitude modulation When a high frequency is modulated
by an audio signal, it is termed a carrier and the audio is the
modulation frequency. If the shape of the carrier varies with the
modulation it is said to be amplitude modulated. Other
frequencies are produced which correspond to the carrier plus
and minus the modulation frequency. These are known as
sidebands. The total range of frequencies from the highest to
the lowest sidebands describes the bandwidth of the signal.
SSB In the radio-frequency spectrum, each transmission thus
represents not a single frequency but a band which depends on
the exten ...