[BC] AM Stereo On A Mono Radio-FM Loudness

Tom Bosscher tom at bosscher.org
Wed Oct 3 14:12:04 CDT 2007


	Either occupied bandwidth or calibrated discriminator 
oscope readings always lead to an error of innocence, and 
that is in the case of those of us who run 2 SCA's and RDS, 
and get to have 110% modulation, or 82.5 KHz deviation. 
There are many engineers out there who do grab this concept.

	tom bosscher, filling in the spectrum

Dana Puopolo wrote:
> Interesting.
> At the NAB a few years ago, I was shown by the FCC how they measured it there.
> They took a lab grade FM tuner and connected it to an oscilloscope that was
> calibrated to the tuner for 100% modulation at their lab. After adjusting the
> directional antenna to eliminate multipath, they looked at the modulation
> peaks on the calibrated 'scope. Too many and you got a pink slip. That sure
> DOESN'T sound like using occupied bandwidth to me!



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