Addis Ababa Science and Technology University

College of Electrical & Mechanical Engineering

Electrical & Computer Engineering Department

Introduction to Communication Systems (EEEg-3152)

Worksheet-I

1. Can an information signal have a higher frequency than that of the carrier signal? What
would happen if a 1 kHz signal amplitude- modulated a 1 kHz carrier signal?
2. To achieve 75 percent modulation of a carrier of Ac=50 V, what amplitude of the
modulating signal Am is needed?
3. What is the total power supplied by an AM transmitter with a carrier power of 2.5 kW
and modulation of 77 percent?
4. An AM signal has a 12 W carrier and 1.5 W in each sideband. What is the percentage of
modulation?
5. Determine the power content of each of the sidebands and of the carrier of an AM signal
that has a percent modulation of 85% and contains 1200W of total power.
6. An AM signal in which the carrier is modulated up to 70% contains 1500W at the carrier
frequency.
a. Determine the power content of the upper and lower sidebands for this percent
modulation.
b. Calculate the power at the carrier and the power content of each of the sidebands when
the percent modulation drops to 50%.
7. The percent modulation of an AM wave changes from 40% to 60%. Originally, the power
content at the carrier frequency was 900W. Determine the power content at the carrier
frequency and within each of the sidebands after the percent modulation has risen to 60%.
8. Determine the percentage power saving when the carrier wave and one of the sidebands are
suppressed in an AM wave modulated to a depth of
a. 100%
b. 50%
9. An antenna has an impedance of 40 Ω. An unmodulated AM signal produces a current of
4.8 A. The modulation is 90 percent. Calculate the
a. carrier power
b. total power
c. sideband power
d. If the transmitter experiences an antenna current change from 4.8 A unmodulated to
5.1 A, what is the percentage of modulation?
10. An AM transmitter puts a carrier of 6 A into an antenna whose resistance is 52 V. The
transmitter is modulated by 60 percent. What is the total output power?
11. An AM signal with 100 percent modulation has an upper sideband power of 32 W. What is
the carrier power?
12. A subcarrier of 70 kHz is amplitude- modulated by tones of 2.1 kHz and 6.8 kHz. The
resulting AM signal is then used to amplitude-modulate a carrier of 12.5 MHz. Assume 100
percent modulation.
a. Calculate all sideband frequencies in the composite signal, and draw a frequency-
domain display of the signal.
b. What is the bandwidth occupied by the complete signal?