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- SCA.2
- Next, along came stereo. In order to avoid the wrath of all the owners
- of monaural FM sets, the FCC in its wisdom decreed that a "compatible"
- system would be necessary before they would approve FM stereo. The
- engineers quickly noted that the A+B signal from two microphones gives a
- passable monaural signal (especially if "one-point" miking is used).
- Now the problem was how to get A and B out of A+B. Well, as your high
- school algebra teacher probably taught you, (A+B)+(A-B)=A and
- (A+B)-(A-B)=B. So all they had to do is send (A-B) in some clever way
- and the receiver could reconstruct A and B by "matrixing". The method
- adopted was to "multiplex" this (A-B) signal onto the main carrier by
- using it to modulate a SUBcarrier located at 38 KHz. Double-Sideband
- Suppressed Carrier (DSBSC) modulation was chosen. This gave a "lower
- sideband" extending downward from 38KHz (less 20Hz or so) to 23KHz
- (because the highs were cut off at 15 KHz.) A "pilot carrier" was put
- at 19 KHz which allows the receiver to recover the precise frequency
- phase of the 38 KHz carrier so that recovery of the (A-B) signal could
- proceed. In fact it turns out that this carrier can be used in an even
- more clever way to recover A and B signals directly from the "composite"
- signal ( A+B plus pilot carrier plus A-B ).
- CONTINUED IN SCA.3