[BC] 19 kHz pilot tones
Jim Tonne
tonne at comcast.net
Thu Jul 16 13:05:50 CDT 2009
It has always been an FCC requirement that the
pilot tone be within 2 Hz of target.
The receivers would indeed "light the light" if
very far off. Some would respond if several
hundred Hz off.
But having a pilot tone very far off would be a sure-fire flag to the
FCC that something was wrong. So would amplitude modulation of that
tone if one of the early-style composite-waveform clippers was in use.
- JimT
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