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SIGNALS AND EMISSIONS · Modulation and demodulation: modulation methods; modulation index and deviation ratio; frequency- and time-division multiplexing; orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM)

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What is digital time division multiplexing?

  1. ATwo or more data streams are assigned to discrete sub-carriers on an FM transmitter
  2. BTwo or more signals are arranged to share discrete time slots of a data transmission
  3. CTwo or more data streams share the same channel by transmitting time of transmission as the sub-carrier
  4. DTwo or more signals are quadrature modulated to increase bandwidth efficiency
Why Time division multiplexing lets several independent signals share one channel by taking turns: each signal gets its own repeating time slot, and the receiver reassembles the streams by keeping sync with that slot timing. Because only one stream occupies the channel at any instant, no extra frequency space is needed, just fast enough sampling and switching. D-STAR voice plus data and TDMA cellular systems work this way.
Watch out Assigning data streams to discrete sub-carriers describes frequency division multiplexing (as in OFDM), where the streams are separated in frequency rather than in time; quadrature modulation is a modulation scheme, not a multiplexing method.
Time division = take turns in time slots; frequency division = each stream gets its own carrier.
HamSandwich explanation, first draft. The question and answers are the NCVEC text.
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  2. E8B02 How does the modulation index of a phase-modulated emission vary with RF carrier frequency?
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  8. E8B08 What describes orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM)?
  9. E8B09 What is deviation ratio?
  10. E8B10 What is frequency division multiplexing (FDM)?
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