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Offline sgaudioTopic starter

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What type of frequency modulation is this
« on: February 17, 2025, 11:14:08 pm »
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I'm newbie on electronics,
Here is the question,a friend given to me a wireless microphone to check if it is transmitting signal
I have tinysa ultra spectrum analyzer,i tested it but i can't understand well what type of modulation,i think it is FSK but not sure
I will post the photo of modulation which showed in tinysa ultra
Your help will be appreciated
 

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Re: What type of frequency modulation is this
« Reply #1 on: February 17, 2025, 11:49:07 pm »
The spectrum of an FM signal is interesting:  look it up online or in a textbook.
At 20 kHz/div (if I read the screen correctly), that looks like an FM spectrum from a single 30 kHz tone.
The sidebands occur at integer multiples of the modulating frequency spacing from the carrier (center) frequency.
The amplitudes of the sidebands fall off as Jn, where Jn is the Bessel function of the first kind and n-th order (as I said, it is interesting), but go out to infinite order as you go away from the carrier.
 

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Re: What type of frequency modulation is this
« Reply #2 on: February 18, 2025, 09:19:54 pm »
Some distortion too. There are several other peaks too, that are not from 30kHz signal. Text books give very nice and clean spectrum/Spectre (or whatever), this is not that. Can you feed some steady tone to your  mic  to see if something useful  appears.
 

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Re: What type of frequency modulation is this
« Reply #3 on: February 19, 2025, 03:33:30 am »
It is highly doubtful the O.P. would be modulating a wireless mic with a 30KHz signal? They typically only have good response out to about 15KHz for the good ones. A 30KHz sampling rate for a 15KHz response would seem about right and some of the wireless systems are in fact doing ADC DAC transmit / receive. I think most of my Audio Technica wireless units spec 15KHz deviation. They are compandered through the transmit / receive chain. I would have to look at the spec but I think they are 50Hz to 10KHz audio response rated. Mine are VHF analog running in the television channels 10-13 spectrum. Most of the new UHF band stuff is digital and much of the old UHF stuff is deemed illegal since the U.S. UHF television repacking fiasco.
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Re: What type of frequency modulation is this
« Reply #4 on: February 19, 2025, 08:30:54 am »
Not having measured the output spectrum of any analog wireless microphone, could it be a pilot tone?
One well above the <15kHz pass band would make sense.
Having a pilot tone would make for a better working squelch circuit that would be less affected by noise.
It would also allow measuring the SNR even when there is nothing being spoken and thus make the life of a possible diversity receiver easier.
 

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Re: What type of frequency modulation is this
« Reply #5 on: February 19, 2025, 11:28:19 am »
It maybe AM or FM, or some other type, its hard to say from the static picture. 30 kHz FM bandwidth is too small for high quality audio signal, so it may be high quality AM, or low quality FM. It also may be some digital stream.

If you can record some short WAV file with IF, it will be more easy to decide what is it.
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Re: What type of frequency modulation is this
« Reply #6 on: February 23, 2025, 10:18:01 am »
They are usually wide-FM (200-500KHz) with a subtone or pilot tone to open the receiver squelch.
 

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Re: What type of frequency modulation is this
« Reply #7 on: February 27, 2025, 10:59:37 am »
I agree.  20 hz to 20k hz.  Broader bandwidth is better.  FM or AM.  Just broader is better on the frequency to the microphone.
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