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MODULATION VOLTAGE [6 records]

Record 1 2012-02-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Vacuum Tubes (Electronics)
CONT

The modulation index can be determined by measuring the actual values of the modulation voltage and the carrier voltage and computing the ratio.

OBS

grid-cathode driving voltage; modulation voltage : terms officially approved by the Electronics and Telecommunications Terminology Committee.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tubes et lampes (Électronique)
OBS

tension d'attaque grille-cathode; tension de modulation : termes uniformisés par le Comité d’uniformisation des termes de l’électronique et des télécommunications (CUTEL).

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Tubos de vacío (Electrónica)
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Record 2 2009-11-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Radio Transmission and Reception
  • Telecommunications Transmission
CONT

High-power modulation. In an AM transmitter amplitude modulation of the carrier by introducing the modulating signal into the anode circuit of the final amplifying stage. The power of the modulating signal thus approximates to that at the transmitter output.

CONT

Modulation is also identified as to level. High level modulation occurs when the modulating voltage is applied to the collector/plate circuit of the final power amplifier. With high level modulation, the final stage is operated class C and the preceding stages are also operated class C. The overall efficiency of such a transmitter is very high. A disadvantage of high level modulation is that comparatively high audio power is needed and several stages of voltage and power amplification may be required in the speech amplifier and modulator circuits.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Émission et réception radio
  • Transmission (Télécommunications)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Radiotransmisión y radiorrecepción
  • Transmisión (Telecomunicaciones)
DEF

Modulación de la portadora de un transmisor de radio efectuada en el amplificador de radiofrecuencia final, normalmente en su circuito anódico.

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Record 3 2009-11-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Radio Transmission and Reception
  • Telecommunications Transmission
CONT

Constant-current modulation [is] a system of amplitude modulation in which the output circuits of the signal amplifier and carrier-wave generator or amplifier are directly and conductively coupled by a common inductor. The inductor has an ideally infinite impedance to the signal frequencies and therefore maintains the common plate-supply current of the two devices constant. The signal-frequency voltage thus appearing across the common inductor also modulates the plate supply to the carrier generator or amplifier, with corresponding modulation of the carrier output.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Émission et réception radio
  • Transmission (Télécommunications)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Radiotransmisión y radiorrecepción
  • Transmisión (Telecomunicaciones)
DEF

Modulación de amplitud por el ánodo en la cual los tubos modulador y modulado se alimentan en paralelo mediante la misma fuente anódica permaneciendo constante la suma de las corrientes anódicas de los dos tubos.

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Record 4 2002-12-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Radio Transmission and Reception
  • Telecommunications Transmission
DEF

A method of amplitude modulation in which the modulating valve and modulated amplifier valve are in series across the anode voltage supply.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Émission et réception radio
  • Transmission (Télécommunications)
DEF

Modulation d'amplitude par l'anode dans laquelle les tubes modulateur et modulé sont alimentés en série par la même source anodique, la somme des tensions anodiques des deux tubes restant constante.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Radiotransmisión y radiorrecepción
  • Transmisión (Telecomunicaciones)
DEF

Método de modulación de amplitud en el que la válvula moduladora y la válvula amplificadora modulada están alimentadas en serie mediante la misma fuente anódica, permanenciendo la suma de las tensiones anódicas constante.

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Record 5 1991-12-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Telecommunications
DEF

A frequency-modulation detector circuit that uses two diodes and requires no limiter at its input; the audio output is determined by the ratio of two developed intermediate-frequency voltages whose relative amplitudes are a function of frequency.

CONT

A ratio detector... is a discriminator operating on the same principle as the Foster-Seely discriminator but less sensitive to amplitude modulation. The coupling circuit and the addition of the primary voltage to the center tap of the secondary may be identical to the corresponding portion of a Foster-Seely discriminator. However, in the ratio detector, the two diodes are connected so that their load voltages are additive rather than subtractive.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Télécommunications
CONT

Dans les récepteurs combinés modernes, les constructeurs introduisent, pour détecter les signaux de fréquence modulée, un discriminateur plus simple et plus économique que celui de phase : le discriminateur de rapport. Ce montage n'implique pas la présence d'un étage limiteur et permet une solution simple du problème de la commande automatique de sensibilité.

Spanish

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Record 6 1983-11-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Electrical Circuits and Circuit Breakers
  • Radio Waves
DEF

Suppressed carrier modulation in which the modulator suppresses the carrier by means of a balanced circuit such as a modulator in which the modulating voltage enters a transformer primary with an amplifier connected to each secondary end and the carrier signal is fed through the center tap of the transformer in a push-pull connection.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Circuits électriques et coupe-circuits
  • Ondes radioélectriques

Spanish

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