Sinhgad Technical Education Society’s

SINHGAD ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING, KONDHWA (BK)-PUNE-48

ORAL QUESTION BANK

SE(E & TC) SEM – II

Principles of Communication System

Sub Inchrage: V. M. Sardeshmukh

Unit I
1. Define Communication.
2. Which are the basic components of electronic communication system?
3. Define communication channel
4. Name different types of communicating channel
5. Name the communication channels used for following system
1. Cable TV
2. TV & MW radio broadcast
3. Satellite communication in C band
4. Closed circuit TV(CCTV)
6. State the two different types of communication
7. What is line communication.
8. What is radio communication?
9. State analog & Digital signal?
10. State the term base band signal
11. What is base band transmission signal
12. Give limitations to the base band transmission
13. Define the bandwidth of signal
14. What is the approximate frequency range for
1. Speech signal
2. Music signal
3. TV (video) Signal?
15. What are the nature of harmonics in following waves
1. square wave
2. Saw tooth wave
3. Triangular wave?
16. What is radio frequency?
17. How will you calculate wavelength of RF wave?
18. What is infrared frequency range?
19. What is AM broad cast range?
20. What is short wave radio broad cast range?
21. What is Pune Vividh Bharti FM broad cast frequency?
22. What is DD1 band frequency broad cast in Pune?
23. What is waveguides?
24. What is modulation process?
25. What is the necessity of modulation?
26. What are the types of continuous modulation?
27. What is power and Energy signal?
28. State properties of Fourier Transform
29. What is PSD?
30. Define Baseband and Bandpass signals
31. Tell the use of Regenerative Repeater.
32. Explain concept of negative frequency

UNIT II
1. As related to AM, what is over modulation, under modulation and 100%
modulation?
2. Draw the frequency spectrum of VSB, where it is used
3. Define modulation index of an AM signal
4. A transmitter radiates 9 kW without modulation and 10.125 kW after modulation.
Determine depth of modulation.
5. Draw the spectrum of DSB.
6. Define the transmission efficiency of AM signal.
7. Draw the phasor diagram of AM signal.
8. Give advantages of SSB.
9. Give disadvantages of DSB-FC.
10. Give Advantages of VSB.
11. Distinguish between low level and high level modulator.
12. Define multitone modulation.
13. Application of AM.
14. Define envelope.
15. Distinguish between linear and non linear modulator.
16. What are the limitations of AM.
17. Draw the envelope of AM.
18. Suggest one application for AM, SSB, DSB and VSB modulation techniques and
19. justify your answer.
20. When a signal m(t) = 3 cos (2p x 103t ) modulates a carrier c(t) = 5 cos (p x 106t),
find the modulation index and transmission bandwidth if the modulation is AM.
21. What is meant by diagonal clipping and negative peak clipping?
22. Draw the circuit diagram of an envelop detector
23. What is the mid frequency of IF section of AM receivers and its bandwidth.
24. Discuss the factors that influence the choice of intermediate frequency in a radio
receiver.
25. What are the advantages of superhetrodyne receiver?
26. Define FDM & frequency translation.
27. Give the parameters of receiver.
28. Define sensitivity and selectivity.
29. Define fidelity.
30. What is meant by image frequency?

UNIT III

FREQUENCY MODULATION
1. What do you mean by narrowband and wideband FM?
2. Give the frequency spectrum of narrowband FM?
3. Why Armstrong method is superior to reactance modulator.
4. Define frequency deviation in FM?
5. State Carson’s rule of FM bandwidth?
6. Differentiate between narrow band and wideband FM.?
7. What are the advantages of FM.?
8. Define PM.
9. What is meant by indirect FM generation?
10. Draw the phasor diagram of narrow band FM.
11. Write the expression for the spectrum of a single tone FM signal.
12. What are the applications of phase locked loop?
13. Define modulation index of FM and PM.
14. Differentiate between phase and frequency modulation.
15. A carrier of frequency 100 MHz is frequency modulated by a signal x(t)=20sin
(200pix103 t ). What is the bandwidth of the FM signal if the frequency
sensitivity of the modulator is 25 KHz per volt?
16. What is the bandwidth required for an FM wave in which the modulating
frequency signal is 2 KHz and the maximum frequency deviation is 12 KHz?
17. Determine and draw the instantaneous frequency of a wave having a total phase
angle given by ø(t)= 2000t +sin10t.
18. Draw the block diagram of PLL.
19. Differentiate phase modulation and frequency modulation.
20. How to achieve threshold reduction in FM receiver?
21. What is meant by FOM of a receiver?
22. What is extended threshold demodulator?
23. Draw the Phasor representation of FM noise.
24. Define pre-emphasis and de-emphasis.
25. What is capture effect in FM?
 UNIT IV
1. What do you mean by band limited signal?
2. What is time limited signal?
3. Can you get time limited & band limited signal simultaneously? Why?
4. State sampling theorem.
5. What is aliasing?
6. How aliasing can be avoided?
7. State sampling theorem in frequency domain.
8. State sampling theorem for band pass signal.
9. What is ideal sampling?
10. What is chopper or natural sampling?
11. What is flat top sampling?
12. What is aperture effect?
13. Explain PWM, PPM

UNIT V

1. Define PCM
2. Define DM
3. How many bits are used to encode each sample in DM?
4. What do you mean by signaling rate?
5. What is the relationship between signaling rate and bandwidth?
6. What is the function of quantizer?
7. Define quantization error.
8. How bandwidth and number of bits/sample are related?
9. How quantization error can be reduced?
10. What is regenerator?
11. What are the different types of quantization?
12. What are the type of linear quantizes?
13. What is the maximum quantization error in above types of quantizers?
14. What is the quantization noise power in linear quantization?
15. How the signal to noise ratio and bits/sample are related in PCM?
16. What will be above relation for sinusoidal signal?
17. What is the necessity of nonuniform quantization for speech?
18. What is companding?
19. Whish are different companding characteristics?
20. Which are the main problem in DM?
21. What is slope overload error?
22. What is granular noise or hunting?
23. How hunting can be reduced?
24. How slope overload distortion can be reduced?
25. What are the different sources of corruption?
 UNIT VI
1. What do you mean by synchronous multiplexer?
2. What do you mean by asynchronous multiplexer?
3. What is T1 system and what is its bit rate ?
4. Why multiplexing required?
5. What is quasisynchrous multiplexing?
6. What do you mean by line code?
7. What is unipolar format?
8. What is polar format?
9. What do you mean by split phase Manchester?
10. What is M-ary coding?
11. Tell me bandwidth requirement of polar NRZ, Manchester and polar quaternary.
12. Tell the spectral features of NRZ polar format.
13. Compare line code on the basic of noise immunity.
14. What is the necessity of synchronization?
15. Name different synchronization techniques?
16. What is necessity of scrambling?
17. What is the effect of long sequence of identical digits?
18. What is ISI?
19. Tell the remedy to remove ISI