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Q.What are the disadvantages of FM system?
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FM needs wide bandwidth, complex costly circuits and has limited line-of-sight coverage.
Despite its many advantages, frequency modulation has some drawbacks compared with AM:
- Wide bandwidth: an FM channel occupies about 200 kHz, far more than the roughly 10 kHz of an AM channel, so fewer stations fit in a given band and the wide band must be justified.
- Complex, costly equipment: FM transmitters and receivers need extra stages (reactance/varactor modulators, limiter, discriminator, pre-/de-emphasis), making them more complicated and expensive. …
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