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PRACTICAL CIRCUITS · Symptoms, causes, and cures of common transmitter and receiver problems: overload and overdrive, distortion, interference and consumer electronics, RF feedback

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What would cause a broadcast AM or FM radio to receive an amateur radio transmission unintentionally?

  1. AThe receiver is unable to reject strong signals outside the AM or FM band
  2. BThe microphone gain of the transmitter is turned up too high
  3. CThe audio amplifier of the transmitter is overloaded
  4. DThe deviation of an FM transmitter is set too low
Why This is a receiver problem, not a transmitter problem. Consumer broadcast radios are built cheaply, with little front-end filtering, so a strong nearby signal on a completely different frequency can get into the first stages, overload them, and be detected as audio. The cure is at the affected receiver: better filtering, a bandpass or high-pass filter on its antenna lead, or more distance, since your transmitter may be perfectly clean and legal.
Watch out Excessive mic gain, an overdriven audio stage or wrong FM deviation are transmitter adjustment faults that cause distorted or splattered audio on the amateur signal, not the reason a broadcast set hears you at all.
Cheap radio, poor filter: fundamental overload is the listener's receiver failing to reject your strong out-of-band signal.
HamSandwich explanation, first draft. The question and answers are the NCVEC text.
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  2. T7B02 What would cause a broadcast AM or FM radio to receive an amateur radio transmission unintentionally?
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