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Design Guide
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Supplementary
Design Guide
FM Technology Overview 5
System Overview 6
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Quick Reference 19
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Portable FM Table of Contents
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Portable FM Design Guide Table of Contents
FM Technology Overview 5
System Overview 6
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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
amount of interference.
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• Multipath
Multipath interference is a form of RF interference that occurs when radio signals have more than one path
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
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System Overview
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System Overview
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• Move transmitter and receivers away from metal objects.
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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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Channel Selection
Range
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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.
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settings will increase range between transmitter and receiver thus introducing a higher probability of
multipath.
Multiple Portable Systems
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power could help decrease the amount of interference if there are many frequencies being used in the
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Spacing of channels
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channels further from each other.
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