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Numbers stations are meant to be cheap and dirty, at least as far as
the folks in the field are concerned. So what numbers station is going through such hassles to do some multiplexed transmission when there isn't exactly a high premium on their broadcast time. That is, if they want to broadcast more signals, there is plenty of time to do so. I'm guessing by angle modulation you mean phase modulation, and SSB is not phase modulation. If you understand mixers, you generate AM by feeding an audio signal that is riding on a bit of DC into a mixer. The DC into the mixer produces the carrier, and the AM into the mixer produces the sidebands. Without the presence of DC, you would get DSB (double side band), which is like AM with the carrier suppressed. To generate SSB, you could either filter off one of the sidebands of DSB, or uses two mixers in quadrature and feed the audio through a Hilbert transformer to get it into quadrature, then sum the right signals to get either LSB or USB. The diagram should be in any basic communications book and probably on the net if you do some searching. The Hilbert transformer is a mathematical notion, so the book might just show a box that takes 0 degrees and outputs 90 degrees independent of frequency. In real life, how this is done depends on the relative bandwidth over which you want to achieve the 90 degree phase shift. Often the audio goes into two filters designed such that the difference between these filters is 90 degrees. Modern writings on Hilbert transformers are likely to be DSP, so you would need to find a book (i.e. pre-Geek) to see this done with analog filters. I'm going to pass on the demod question as you phrased it, but I think if I had to recover some stealthy USB riding on top of AM, I would recover the LSB of the AM signal as one signal. Then recover both USB signals (which are really sharing the same spectrum) as another signal, then subtract the demod LSB from the demod USB combo to yield the stealthy USB audio. |
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