Pre-Test for Modulation

1. Most of the power in an AM signal is in the

* a. carrier
b. upper sideband
c. lower sideband
d. modulating signal
2. When the amplitude of the information in an AM modulator is equal to zero, what is
the value of the modulation index?
a. 1
* b. 0
c. 100
d. infinity
3. If a superheterodyne receiver is tuned to a desired signal at 1000kHz and its
conversion (local) oscillator is operating at 1300kHz, what would be the frequency of an
incoming signal that would possibly cause image reception?
* a. 1600 kHz
b. 2300 kHz
c. 1250 kHz
d. 3420 kHz
4. A circuit that has a low-gain, high-input impedance linear amplifier which is used to
isolate the oscillator from the high-power amplifiers.
a. power amplifier
b. bandpass filter
c. signal driver
* d. buffer amplifier
5. A carrier is simultaneously modulated by two sine waves with modulation indices of
0.3 and 0.4, the total modulation index
a. is 1
b. cannot be calculated unless the phase relations are known
* c. is 0.5
d. is 0.7
6. What is the frequency swing of an FM broadcast transmitter when modulated 60%
a. 60 kHz
b. 25 kHz
 c. 30 kHz
* d. 45 kHz
7. Calculate the approximate bandwidth for an FM system with a 60 kHz deviation and
1kHz modulating frequency.
a. 124 kHz
b. 134 kHz
* c. 144 kHz
d. 104 kHz
8. A phase modulator has kp =2 rad/V. What RMS voltage of a sine wave would cause
a peak phase deviation of 30 degrees?
a. 0.270 V
b. 900 V
* c. 0.185 V
d. 542 V
9. A rule that approximates the bandwidth necessary to transmit an angle-modulated
wave as twice the sum of the peak frequency deviation and the highest modulating
frequency.
* a. Carson's rule
b. Shannon's rule
c. Hartley's law
d. Hartley-Shannon law
10. It is the measure of the ability of a communications system to produce, at the output
of the receiver, an exact replica of the original source information.
a. sensitivity
b. threshold
c. selectivity
* d. fidelity