Analysis of Single Sideband Modulation in Microwave Systems for Television (Video) Transmission

This paper analyzes the problem of intermodulation distortion of single sideband amplitude modulation (SSB-AM) for the transmission of multi-channel video signals using microwave radio systems. Microwave television transmission using SSB-AM is attractive due to its potential to reduce costs and to improve spectrum utilization. However, the usage of SSB-AM for multi-channel microwave video transmission has been restricted mainly because of the unacceptable level of third order distortion components generated in a microwave system.