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School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (SEECS)

Department of Electrical Engineering

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Course/Section: BEE 13 Semester: Spring 2024

EE-351 Communication Systems

Lab 5: SSB TRANSMISSION

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Lab 5: SSB Transmission

Exercise 1: Balanced Modulator and LSB Filter:

Exercise 2: Mixer and RF power Amplifier:

Exercise Objectives:

When you have completed this lab:

 You will be able to describe how a balanced modulator produces a DSB signal.
 How the SSB is output from the SSB filter.
 Understand why an SSB have low power consumption and narrow bandwidth.
 You will be able to describe the operation of balanced modulator mixer.
 Explain the function of mixer output LC network.
 Describe the operation of RF power Amplifier.
 Understand the advantages of SSB transmission.

You will use an oscilloscope for the measurements.

Introduction:

The balanced modulator frequency translates a message signal to two sidebands and suppress the
carrier frequency to produce a DSB-SC signal.
To produce an SSB signal from DSB-SC signal, a ceramic filter of narrow bandwidth of 4kHz
removes the 449KHz LSB signal. A 455kHz USB signal is the output from the filter and
contains al the information of message signal.
The second section of transmitter translates the 455kHz to 1000kHz frequency and increases the
power of signal before its antenna transmits the signal.
The mixer performs the up conversion, the pin 6 of the mixer is DSB signal, the 1455kHz
frequency is then supressed. An LC filter that is tuned for 1000kHz connects to the pin 12. The
LC filter passes the 1000kHz SSB signal and filters the extra out.
The tuned antenna matching network increases the power of the 1000kHz SSB signal radiated by
the antenna.
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Discussion:
1. When the carrier signal is supressed in an AM signal. The AM signal becomes a DSB
signal containing only the USB and LSB.
2. You supressed the carrier signal by adjusting the balanced modulator’s null potentiometer
to produce a DSB signal from the message and carrier signal.
3. Each sideband contains the intelligence of the message signal.
4. A narrow bandwidth filter attenuates one of the sidebands from the DSB signal to
produce an SSB signal.
5. A mixer upconverts the 455kHz signal to 1000kHz SSB signal.
6. A tuned LC network at the mixers output passes the 1000kHz SSB and filters all other
frequencies.
7. The RF filter with antenna matching network increases the power level of a 1000kHz
SSB before transmission by the antenna.
8. An SSB signal requires only 16.65% of the total power required for the total 100%
modulated signal.
9. The bandwidth of an SSB signal is either half or less than bandwidth of AM signal.