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- SCA.6
- If it doesn't have FM demodulation available at this frequency, then
- can still use a trick called "slope detection". Tune it above 67 KHz so
- that the 67 KHz carrier falls on the lower slope of the IF selectivity
- curve. I.e. the signal has fallen off about halfway from its peak value
- on the meter. Select AM demodulation, and then tune for the best sound.
- You should get acceptable recovery of the audio. If there is a
- bandwidth switch, experiment with it. Probably the widest bandwidth
- available will work best.
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- If you don't have a suitable VLF receiver covering 67 KHz, the simple
- trick with the Phase-Locked Loop device will work just fine. After
- the monaural FM receiver has done most of the work of picking up the
- weak signal at VHF (88 to 108 MHz) and amplifying it and FM demodulating
- it so you have the baseband composite signal available to fool around
- with. What is going on here is that the PLL locks to the 67 KHz signal
- but since that is being FM modulated, it has to work a bit to stay
- locked. The Voltage-Controlled Oscillator has to be pushed above or
- below 67 KHz, its natural frequency, by applying a control voltage to
- the VCO input. All of this is done "automatically" by the design of
- phase-locking circuitry, but YOU can benefit by all this work it is
- doing: the control voltage is precisely a measurement of the
- instantaneous modulation value, M, that YOU want to hear! So you pick
- it off, amplify it, and listen to MUZAK (yuk) to your heart's content.
- CONTINUED IN SCA.7