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- SCA.5
- The de-emphasis circuit tends to reduce the amplitude of the SCA signal
- since it is at a high frequency (53 to 81 KHz, with carrier at 67 KHz).
- However, enough gets through that it can still probably be used even at
- the speaker jack, since it is an FM signal and the absolute amplitude
- isn't too important. The best way to recover the SCA audio, however,
- would be to go in to the FM receiver and tap off at the "top" of the
- volume control -- the hot side where the discriminator signal is brought
- in. Bring this signal out to a jack which you can install on the set
- for all such nefarious purposes. In fact, make sure that the
- de-emphasis network is not installed ahead of this point, although in my
- experience it usually is not.
-
- Anyway, once you have brought out the full composite signal, the SCA
- signal is STILL AN FM SIGNAL that needs an FM discriminator to turn
- back into normal audio. It happens to have a carrier frequency of 67
- KHz because that is what was used as the carrier at the studio when the
- composite audio signal was made up.
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- So if you have a VLF receiver capable of covering 67 KHz, you can feed
- the composite audio signal into its input, which happens to be the
- antenna connection. You can then tune it to 67 KHz and switch it to FM
- mode and you should get perfect SCA audio out.
- CONTINUED IN SCA.6