Question bank(I and II)

Draw the Circuit of an envelope detector.

What is the mid frequency of IF section of AM receivers and its bandwidth
What are the advantages of super heterodyne receiver over TRF receiver?
A transmitter radiate 9KW without modulation and 10.125KW after modulation.
Determine depth of modulation.
How many Am broadcast stations can be accommodated in a 100kHz bandwidth it
the highes frequency modulating carrier is 5kHz.
Define amplitude modulation and modulation index.
What is the advantage of SSB-SC modulation over AM?
What are the advantages of converting the low frequency signal into high frequency signal ?
Compare Bandwidth and power requirement in terms of carrier power P C , for AM,DSB-SC and
SSB ?
Obtain the Hilbert transform of m(t) =Sa,cos(2tftt)+11* sin(2tzfrL).
2. SSB is suitable for speech signals and not for video signais. Why?
Draw the phasor diagram of narrow band FM
What are the applications of phase locked loop?
Define phase modulation.
What is narrow band FM?
Illustrate the relationship between FM and PM with block diagram
Compare the narrowband FM and wideband Fm.
What are the advantages of ratio detector
A carrier is frequency modulated by a sinusoidal modulating frequency 2kHz,
resulting in a frequency deviation of 5kHz. What is the bandwidth occupied by the
modulated waveform?
Define modulation index for FM signal
Draw a simple schematic of a PLL demodulator
Differentiate phase modulation and frequency modulation.
Draw the block diagram of PLL
What is the need for pre emphasis?
A 80MHz carrier is frequency modulated by a sinusoidal signal of 1-V
amplitude and the frequency sensitivity is 100H2/V. Find the approximate
bandwidth of the FM waveform if the modulating signal has a frequency of
I0I{TIz.
4. Outline the principles of FM stereo receivers

Part B
1. What are the advantages of super hertodyne receiver over TRF receiver?
Draw the block diagram of super heterodyne receiver and explain the
functions of each block.
2. i. Draw the circuit diagram of a ring modulator and explain its operation.
II. Discuss coherent detection of DSB-SC modulated wave with the block
diagram of the detector.

Draw the filtering scheme for the generation of VSB modulated wave and
explain.
Explain the double side suppressed carrier modulation technique.
With the help of a neat diagram, explain the generation of DSB-SC using
Balanced modulator.
Write about the coherent detection method in detail for DSC-SC and SSB-SC
What happens when there is phase mismatch?
With necessary diagrams and expressions explain the generation and
demodulation of AM

(b) (i) Compare the various amplitude modulation schemes.

Define amplitude modulation. How an amplitude modulated signal can be

generated using a non-linear modulator circuit?

Draw the block diagram for the generation and demodulation of a

VSB signal and explain the principle of operation.
Explain the functions of each block in the superheterodyne receiver.
(9)
Define sensitivity, selectivity and image frequency of a Receiver
system.
The antenna current of an AM transmitter is 8 ampere when only the carrier is sent. The
current increases to 8.93 A when the carrier is modulated by a single sine wave. Find the
percentage modulation.
Draw the VSB spectrum and explain the significance. (4)
(ii) How do you demodulate AM signal? Explain. (8)
(iii) A 1000 KHz carrier is simultaneously AM modulated with 300 Hz,
800Hz and 1.5KHz audio sine waves. What will be the frequencies
present in the output?
In a superheterodyne receiver the input AM signal has a center
frequency of 1425 KHz and bandwidth 10KHz. The input is down
converted to 455 KHz (single stage of down conversion). what is
the image frequency?
What do you understand by carrier Synchronization?
ii) Discuss the method of demodulation of DSBSC signal using Costas
the function in detaii. (10)
(ii) In a superheterodyne receiver the input AM signal has a center
frequency of 1425 KHz and bandwidth 10KHz. The input is down
converted to 455 KHz (single stage of down conversion). what is
the image frequency? (2)
(iii) Draw the magnitude response of the various filters of the

Superheterodyne receiver that could be used for receiving the signal

(4)
Ioop? (8)
(iii) An SSB signal is generated by modulating an 800 kHz carrier by
the signal m(t) = cos2000tft'+2sinl200rt'.
The amplitude of the carrier is Ac = 10.
Obtain the magnitude spectrum of the lower sideband SSB Siglai'
3. Derive the expression for the frequency modulated signal. Explain what is
meant by narrow-band FM and wide-band FM using the expression.
4. Discuss the indirect method of generating a wide-band FM signal.
5. Draw the circuit diagram, of Foster-seeley discriminator and explain its
working.
6. Define frequency modulation. Draw the FM waveform. Derive an expression
for single tone frequency modulation.
7. Compare Narrowband and wideband FM
8. A 20 MHZ is frequency modulated by a sinusoidal signal such that the
maximum frequency deviation is 100 kHz. Determine the modulation index
and approximate bandwidth of the FM signal for the following modulating
signal frequencies, (1) 1kHz (2) 100kHz (3) 500kHz
9. Derive the time domain expressions of FM and PM signals.

Write about the basic principles of FM detection and explain about Ratio
1. detector.
Derive the expression for Wideband FM in terms of Bessel functions
How can FM be derived from PM and vice versa? Explain in detail.
Explain any two methods used for FM detection with neat diagrams.

Discuss the effects of non linearities in FM systems

How do you demodulate the FM wave using frequency
discriminator?
Derive the mathematical representation of FM waves. (10)
(ii) When the modulating frequency in an FM system is 400Hz and the
modulating voltage is2.4V, the modulation index is 60. Calculate the
maximum deviation. What is the modulating index when the modulating
frequency is reduced to 250 Hz and the modulating voltage is

simultaneously raised to 3.2V?

Explain the Armstrong method to generate FM signal. (10)
(ii) How is the phase and frequency modulation are related? Explain. (3)
(iii) Differentiate Narrowband and Wideband FM.
(i) With a suitable block
generation.
(ii) Derive an expression for the spectrum of FM signal assuming single
tone modulation. (8)
(iii) How would you differentiate between wideband FM and narrow
band FM? @)
Or
(b) Describe FM demodulation using frequency discriminator in detail. (16)