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Unit 6
Lecture Notes 44
AM Transmitter
Analog Communications
Unit 6
Lecture Notes 44
must have sufficient bandwidth for the sideband frequencies. Further more, as in Fig 1,
all these stages must be capable of handling amplitude variations caused by the
modulation. Such stages therefore cannot be class C, and are in consequence less efficient
than class C amplifiers.
Each of the systems is seen to have one great advantages: low modulating power
requirements in one case, and much more efficient RF amplification with simpler circuit
design in the other. Finally, it has been found in practice that an anode-modulated class C
amplifier tends to have better efficiency, lower distortion and much better power
handling capabilities than a grid-modulated amplifier. Because of these considerations,
broadcast AM transmitters today almost invariably use high-level modulation, and TV
transmitters use grid modulation of the final stage. The other methods are used in lowpower and miscellaneous applications, AM generators and test instruction.
T. Kalpana,ECE,GMRIT