RESULTS

GRAPH 1 (a) DSB-C MESSAGE SIGNAL WAVEFORMS

GRAPH 1(b) DSB-C CARRIER SIGNAL WAVEFORMS

 GRAPH 1 (c) DSB-C MODULATION WAVEFORMS

GRAPH 1 (d) DSB-C DEMODULATION WAVEFORMS

DISCUSSION
 In this experiment, students observe on the waveforms of the Conventional Amplitude

Modulation. In the conventional amplitude modulation scheme, a portion of the sinusoidal carrier

is added to the DSB-SC AM signal, which greatly simplify the demodulation process.

Conventional Amplitude Modulation used the same message and carrier signal in this

experiment. A double sideband suppressed carrier (DSB-SC) signal is obtained by multiplying

the message signal with the carrier signal thus the message signal frequency in this signal is 100

kHz sine wave with 6V of Vpp and the carrier frequency is selected as 500 kHz with 2V of Vpp.

For the process of the modulation in the experiment based on the waveform in graph

1(c) the amplitude modulation shifts the spectrum of the modulating signal directly to the carrier

wave. When carrier frequency is large relative to the bandwidth of message signal, the envelope

is a smooth signal that passes through the positive peaks of modulation signal and it can be

viewed as modulating (changing) the amplitude of the carrier wave in a way related to message

signal.

As for the demodulation, like DSB-SC, a conventional AM signal can be demodulated by

means of coherent demodulator which requires a locally generated carrier that is synchronized

with the carrier used for modulation at the transmitter. Because the envelope of the modulated

signal retains the shape of the message signal, the demodulation of AM signal can alternatively

be accomplished by using a simple envelope detector. But in this experiment as for the graph

1(d), students didnt get the expected wave as it might be some systematic error on the machine

used.