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Standing Waves (and Impedance)
It is not a sub carrier in the rf spectrum, meaning it can be fully
seen with or without any other carrier (video), but when detected in the TV receiver it becomes a sub carrier of 4.5 mhz in the TV's IF. The audio carrier is mixed with the video carrier to produce the 4.5 mhz. Without the video carrier the TV receiver will not see the 4.5 mhz. As others have said the sound carrier is usually generated by a separate transmitter at the sound carrier frequency. But it could also be generated as a sub carrier of the main video carrier with the same results. It would still be visible in the RF spectrum just the same as it is when generated by a separate transmitter. The main carrier would also have to be present at the same time of course. However if the TV video signal was an FM modulated signal rather than AM then the sound sub carrier would not be visible without the main video carrier if it was generated as a sub carrier. The same happens with an FM broadcast SCA sub carrier or the stereo sub carrier on the main signal. The main signal must first be demodulated in order to demodulate any sub carrier. 73 Gary K4FMX On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 23:28:16 GMT, John Ferrell wrote: I like your answer best, probably because I understand how it works! On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 13:46:45 -0500, "Fred W4JLE" wrote: TV audio is not a sub-carrier. The audio is an independent transmitter from the aural transmitter. They may have come up with some other way since I worked at WXEL in the fifties, but as a fifty's TV set still works today, I suspect the result is the same. "John Ferrell" wrote in message . .. You guys are testing my gray matter today... The question: Is it possible to detect an FM subcarrier without receiving the base carrier? Perhaps another cup of coffee will help... John Ferrell W8CCW |
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"Roy Lewallen" wrote:
With no information other than looking at the composite signal including video and audio, would you be able to tell if it was generated by two separate transmitters or by modulation of a single transmitter by the video and an audio subcarrier? That is, if you could do the modulation without generation of intermodulation products. ______________ Given all that, then no. But that isn't the reality. RF |
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"Gary Schafer" wrote
However if the TV video signal was an FM modulated signal rather than AM then the sound sub carrier would not be visible without the main video carrier if it was generated as a sub carrier. The same happens with an FM broadcast SCA sub carrier or the stereo sub carrier on the main signal. The main signal must first be demodulated in order to demodulate any sub carrier. _____________ The r-f spectra of TV aural signals and FM SCAs are standalone entities. Each may be fully demodulated by a suitable FM receiver capable of tuning to that r-f spectrum. No "main" carrier is needed. Given, this isn't the conventional practice -- however it would be possible to do. Likewise, the L-R audio information of an FM stereo transmission is a standalone entity, and given a suitable r-f receiver and detector, it can be fully demodulated back to L-R without needing the main carrier. Not conventional or cost-effective, but possible. Of course, the L+R waveform conveyed by the main carrier is necessary to matrix with L-R to produce the L&R channels needed for stereo reproduction by the receiver system. RF |
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On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 20:53:54 -0600, "Richard Fry"
wrote: "Gary Schafer" wrote However if the TV video signal was an FM modulated signal rather than AM then the sound sub carrier would not be visible without the main video carrier if it was generated as a sub carrier. The same happens with an FM broadcast SCA sub carrier or the stereo sub carrier on the main signal. The main signal must first be demodulated in order to demodulate any sub carrier. _____________ The r-f spectra of TV aural signals and FM SCAs are standalone entities. Each may be fully demodulated by a suitable FM receiver capable of tuning to that r-f spectrum. No "main" carrier is needed. Given, this isn't the conventional practice -- however it would be possible to do. It may be "visible" but it is not a standalone signal like a TV aural signal is. With an SCA signal there is more than one side band on the main carrier involved. With TV aural there is not. 73 Gary K4FMX |
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