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An AM receiver produces distorted audio only on the loudest passages, and the distortion disappears if the volume at the transmitter is reduced.

The most likely cause is

  • A.A failed automatic gain control
  • B.An image-frequency interferer
  • C.Diagonal clipping in the detector
  • D.Over-modulation at the transmitter

Answer: D

Distortion appearing only on peaks and curable by reducing the transmitter's audio level points to over-modulation: the envelope is being driven past its limit on the loudest passages. A gain control failure would distort at all levels or produce level-dependent noise. An image interferer would appear as a second programme or a whistle rather than as peak distortion. Diagonal clipping is a receiver fault and would not respond to the transmitter's audio level in this way.

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