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Design Guide
FM Technology Overview 5
System Overview 6
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Portable FM Table of Contents
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Portable FM Design Guide Table of Contents
FM Technology Overview 5
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Frequency Modulation (FM) Technology Overview
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This same technology is used by local FM radio stations to broadcast voice and music. FM signals can travel
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frequency. This section of the manual will help you design a system that will get the best range with the least
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• Multipath
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between the receiver and the transmitter causing the two RF signals to add out of phase. This could occur in areas
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and out of squelch when the receiver is moved. Portable applications are much more susceptible to multipath
than those that are stationary. Multipath distortion is often worse as the distance between transmitter and receiver
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System Overview
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Thus, a person can use a line input source and mic source.
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System Overview
Listen offers two different portable receivers.
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The range of a portable transmission will vary from one application to another. There are many different
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• Move transmitter and receivers away from metal objects.
• Orient both transmitting and receiving antennas vertically.
Key concepts in designing a portable FM system
Use this section of the guide to choose the channel settings for the transmitter and receivers.
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interference free channel.
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the transmitting antenna.
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chart on page 61 to determine the appropriate channels.
Channel Selection
Range
EXAMPLE: 2 channel system use channels 01 & 11
3 channel system use channels 01, 06 & 11
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Key concepts in designing a portable FM system
As mentioned on page 5, multipath can occur with portable RF systems. The audio quality of the
transmission can decrease with the occurrence of multipath. Here are a few potential improvements that
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Eliminating Multipath
Squelch
Squelching the receiver will mute the audio output when the signal from the transmitter is turned off or
the signal is too weak to be received. Without squelch you would hear radio noise in your earphone with
no RF signal present. “Tightening” the squelch will turn the receiver off if it is chattering because of
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range between transmitter and Receiver.
Transmitter power level
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The lower the power setting, the less range the transmitter will broadcast. Decreasing the broadcast range
will force the receivers to remain closer to the transmitter. To maintain an RF signal, the higher power
settings will increase range between transmitter and receiver thus introducing a higher probability of
multipath.
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Much like a multipath situation, “tightening” the squelch on the receiver will mute the audio output when
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power could help decrease the amount of interference if there are many frequencies being used in the
vicinity.
Spacing of channels
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channels further from each other.
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