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What is the chief practical disadvantage of pulse position modulation?

  • A.It cannot be time division multiplexed with other channels
  • B.It needs accurate synchronisation at the receiver
  • C.Its pulses vary in amplitude and so admit noise directly
  • D.It requires substantially more bandwidth than width modulation

Answer: B

Position modulation measures displacement against a reference, so the receiver must know precisely where each slot begins, which means a synchronising pulse or frame marker. Its amplitude is constant, so it does not admit amplitude noise. Its bandwidth is comparable with width modulation's. And it multiplexes perfectly well. A scheme that encodes into timing necessarily buys a dependence on a timing reference, and that dependence is its weakness.

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