Episode 1 · AM · Series 02: RF principles
How does a voice ride on a radio wave?
- Release
- Length
- 21:13
- Subject
- Modulation
What it covers
How AM radio works, from sound to the receiver: the carrier, the envelope, the sidebands and splatter, with a real voice on a 1,000,000 hertz carrier. Every term is explained as it comes up.
Chapters
- 0:00Amplitude Modulation
- 0:29Jargon ahead
- 3:29From sound to audio
- 4:50Why not just send the audio?
- 6:20Putting the voice on the carrier
- 7:29The transmitter, step by step
- 10:22The view by frequency
- 12:39A real voice
- 13:16The receiver
- 16:31What AM wastes
- 17:32The jargon you learned
Frames from the draft
