PRINCIPLES OF COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING

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1) a) What is angle modulation ? b) Write the advantages and disadvantages of FM compared to
AM? c) State Carson's rule of FM bandwidth.
2) a) An SSB signal contains 1 kW power. How much power is contained in the side band and how
much at the carrier frequency ? b) What is VSB modulation ?
3) a) Explain the detection of AM signals using envelope detector. b) Explain with block diagram
low level and high level modulation techniques. c) A transmitter radiates 9 kW without
modulation and 10125 kW after modulation. Determine depth of modulation. d) Find the
bandwidth of a commercial FM transmission, if frequency deviation is 75 kHz and modulating
frequency is 15 kHz.
4) 2. a) What is nyquist interval ? b) What is folding frequency ? c) Which kind of filter is used to
demodulate a PAM signal.
5) a) What is the difference between geosynchronous and geostationary orbits ? b) Discuss the
advantages and disadvantages of geostationary orbit ?
6) 6. a) What is S/N ratio ? Draw the block diagram for the communication system. b) Why FM and
PM waves are called inseparable.
7) a) State and prove sampling theorem. Sketch a pulse amplitude modulator circuit and explain its
operation. What is meant by aliasing effect ? b) Compare TDM and FDM.
8) a) Draw the block diagram of a simple superheterodyne receiver and explain its principle. 7 b)
What is image frequency and how is it removed in superheterodyne receiver ?
9) a) Draw the block diagram of a PCM system (transmitter and receiver both). b) A telephone signal
has a maximum frequency of 4 kHz. It is limited in voltage between +1V to 1V. It is transmitted
by using PCM. The required SNR is 40dB. What is the minimum bandwidth required for
transmission ? c) A television signal has a bandwidth of 45 MHz. This signal is sampled and
converted into a PCM signal.
10) Write short notes on a) Balanced modulator b) FSK c) Analog-to-Digital Converter d) PLL e)
Tone Modulation f) ISI g) ARQ h) D/A converter.
11) a) What is apogee ? b) Define Azimuth angle.
12) a) What is the difference between geosynchronous and geostationary orbit ? b) Discuss the
disadvantages of geostationary orbit.
13) Explain the detail about the superheterodyne receiver.
14) a) Explain coherent QPSK system. b) What is DPSK ? What is the bandwidth requirement of
DPSK ?
15) a) 1 kHz signal is sampled by 8 kHz sampling signal and the samples are encoded with 12 bit
PCM system. Find i) required bandwidth ii) total no. of bits in the digital output signal in 10
cycles. b) With a suitable block diagram explain the principle of pulse code modulation ( PCM ).
c) What is companding ? Discuss the two laws of companding.
16) a) Define the following terms : Block Code, Code Vectors, Code Weight, Code Word. b) Consider
a ( 7, 4 ) linear block code whose generator matrix is given below:

Find the code vector for a message 1011 and also the parity check
matrix.