CHAPTER 4.8 FM Stereo and SCA Systems

ERIC SMALL

Modulation Sciences, Inc. Somerset, New Jersey

INTRODUCTION

A substantial portion of this chapter remains the work of John Kean, this chapter’s original author. Although it has been revised and updated, much of the material is fundamental and remains current technology.

Stereophonic sound FM broadcasting and subcar-rier services (commonly known as SCA) are a form of multiplexing that began over 70 years ago, when high-fidelity audio and facsimile messages were simultaneously transmitted from the Empire State Building in New York City to experimental receiving sites in New Jersey [1]. Those historic multiplexing efforts demonstrated the value of wideband frequency modulation, allowing modern FM ...

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