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What is the efficiency penalty of low-level modulation?

  • A.The oscillator must be pulled by the message
  • B.The antenna must be retuned with modulation
  • C.The audio amplifier must handle carrier power
  • D.Every stage after the modulator must be linear

Answer: D

Once the signal carries a varying envelope, all subsequent amplification must be linear, which rules out the efficient class C operation an unmodulated carrier permits. That is the whole trade against high-level modulation. The oscillator is never pulled in an amplitude scheme. Antenna tuning is unaffected by modulation. And it is high-level modulation, not low-level, that demands a powerful audio stage. Tracing the consequence of a design choice through the whole chain is what these questions test.

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