Communication- is the act of sharing or expressing thoughts, ideas, and meanings from

one entity or group to another through the use of mutually understood signs and semiotic rules.
(to share) *verbal *non-verbal

Communication System- In telecommunication, a communications system is a

collection of individual communications networks, (DTE) usually capable of
interconnection and interoperation to form an integrated whole. The components of
a communications system serve a common purpose, are technically compatible, use
common procedures, respond to controls, and operate in union. Telecommunications
is a method of communication (e.g., for sports broadcasting, mass media,
journalism, etc.).
the purpose of a communication system is to transmit intelligence signal from a
source to a destination at some point away from the source.
Elements of Communication SystemTransmitter, Communication Channel, Receiver
The transmitter's function is to process the message signal into a form suitable for
transmission over the communication channel. This is called modulation. As for the
communication channel, its function is to provide a pathway between the
transmitter's output and the receiver's input. The job of the receiver is to process
the received signal to recover the appropriate message signal. If the different
elements do their jobs accordingly, then the output signal should equal to the input
message signal. This communication system will be visit again later in this report as
we go through the lesson plans for amplitude modulation.

Modulation- Before we can send a message signal over the communication channel,
we need to modify the message signal into a form that is suitable for transmission
over a channel. We called this process of modifying message signal as modulation.
This modulation process involves changing some parameters of a carrier wave in
accordance with the message signal so the resultant wave will match the
communication channel's bandwidth. In order to recover the message signal, the
receiver of the communication system will have to go through the demodulation
process, which is the inverse of the modulation process.
AM AND FMThe modulation process involves encoding the message signal in a carrier wave.
This carrier wave is just a sinusoidal wave. We know that this carrier wave or
sinusoidal wave has three independent parameters that can be varied with the
message signal. These three parameters are amplitude, phase, and frequency. The
variation of the amplitude is known as amplitude modulation (AM). Frequency
modulation (FM) is to change the frequency accordingly with the message signal
and the carrier wave. The last form of modulation is phase modulation. It is done by

change the phase of the carrier wave according to the message signal. Most of us
are already familiar with AM and FM. The radio communications basically use those
in our daily life. In the lesson plan, we will go through the AM process and see how it
works
Amplitude modulation of a carrier wave works by varying the strength of the
transmitted signal in proportion to the information being sent. For example, changes
in the signal strength can be used to reflect the sounds to be reproduced by a
speaker, or to specify the light intensity of television pixels. It was the method used
for the first audio radio transmissions, and remains in use today. "AM" is often used
to refer to the medium wave broadcast band (see AM radio), but it is used in various
radiotelephone services such as the Citizen Band, amateur radio and especially in
aviation, due to its ability to be received under very weak signal conditions and its
immunity to capture effect, allowing more than one signal to be heard
simultaneously.

Frequency modulation varies the frequency of the carrier. The instantaneous

frequency of the carrier is directly proportional to the instantaneous value of the
input signal. FM has the "capture effect" whereby a receiver only receives the
strongest signal, even when others are present. Digital data can be sent by shifting
the carrier's frequency among a set of discrete values, a technique known as
frequency-shift keying. FM is commonly used at Very high frequency (VHF) radio
frequencies for high-fidelity broadcasts of music and speech (see FM broadcasting).
Analog TV sound is also broadcast using FM.