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This document discusses using two 555 timer integrated circuits to create an AM transmitter and provides guidelines for pulse width modulation. It explains that the modulation needs to be between 50-100% or 0-50% duty cycle to properly vary the transmitted power from the antenna in a way that can be demodulated at the receiver into a varying voltage waveform. Maintaining the modulation pulse width within these ranges is important for the transmitter to broadcast a varying power rather than polarity, which then gets converted back to a varying voltage at the receiver.

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Timer Tutorials 555

This document discusses using two 555 timer integrated circuits to create an AM transmitter and provides guidelines for pulse width modulation. It explains that the modulation needs to be between 50-100% or 0-50% duty cycle to properly vary the transmitted power from the antenna in a way that can be demodulated at the receiver into a varying voltage waveform. Maintaining the modulation pulse width within these ranges is important for the transmitter to broadcast a varying power rather than polarity, which then gets converted back to a varying voltage at the receiver.

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Using two 555s as an AM Transmitter

A Word or Two about using Pulse Width Modulation for AM broadcasting: Always keep the Pulse Width of the modulation between > 50% & < 100%; OR between > 00% & < 50%. At first blush, the reasoning for this may not be obvious: A transmitter is not broadcasting a varying voltage but a varying POWER. That is, the varying modulation voltage is controlling how much Carrier POWER is transmitted. Although the modulating voltage may have a polarity +/-, the RF power leaving the antenna has no polarity. At the receiver the varying power is demodulated/ which is saying it is converted from a varying power to a varying voltage, and if you "AC Couple" the detector's output you again have a varying voltage that has a +/- polarity. --Huh?

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