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Q.Why should broadcasting programs use different frequencies?

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As explained in section 13.6, if different broadcasting stations tried to transmit their audio (or video) signals directly, without modulating them onto distinct carrier frequencies, the raw low-frequency signals from all the stations would overlap and mix together in space, making it impossible for a receiver to separate out any one station's content. By assigning each transmitter its own distinct carrier frequency, every station's modulated signal occupies its own separate slice of the frequency spectrum; a receiver can then use a tuning circuit to select just the narrow frequency range belonging to the desired stat …

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