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- SCA.7
- From the above rather long-winded description, you can see that the
- is a lot of other junk floating around on the composite signal, namely
- all the stereo stuff below 53 KHz. To make the SCA demodulator work
- and be free of interference from the main channel, it would be well
- put a little selectivity ahead of the SCA demodulation if you are using
- the PLL trick. I haven't experimented with this, but I would think a
- simple high-pass filter to attenuate everything below 53 KHz would do
- fairly well. Of course with the VLF receiver you have all kinds of
- selectivity, so there should be no problem.
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- I hope this helps you understand what is going on with SCA. If you
- followed all the details, it should be clear that there is no black
- magic going on, but that once the composite signal has been received, a
- VLF FM receiver (a rather rare beastie) is logically what is needed
- recover the SCA signal. That's why it happens to be possible to string
- together such a seemingly unlikely pair of receivers and get SCA
- broadcasts.
-
- -John Sangster, W3IK
- jhs at MITRE-Bedford, MA
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- CONTINUED IN SCA.8