Re: Single Side Band (SSB) Demodulation

Howard Long wrote:
Hi Bangash

Actually I am working on Single Side Band (SSB)
Modulation/Demodulation. I have successfull programmed the Modulator and
the Demodulator. But Now I have one problem, that I want extract the
Carrier Frequency from the SSB (transmitted) signal at the receiver end.
Any one can guide my in the respect.

In practice, SSB is almost always suppressed carrier, so there is no carrier transmitted. Unlike tuning an AM or FM receiver where the precise frequency is not required, for SSB-SC the receiver needs to be manually adjusted to the right frequency by the user so that it sounds right.

Perhaps I haven't understood your problem properly.

HTH, Howard


In theory, if it's voice over SSB that's being transmitted, you can automatically fine tune the SSB receiver. This works (purportedly) because the vocal cords generate a comb of frequencies, which the vocal tract shapes. So you can do an FFT, then extract the virtual zero point of the comb, then servo to it.

There was an article in QEX on this technique years ago. I suspect that it doesn't really work all that well, because I don't see any amateur radio receivers being sold with automatic fine tuning on SSB.

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