
Generation of a transport stream for DVB and realisation of a HF-modulated DVB-signal
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If you don’t see anything press the magnifying glass button and check that the blue LEDs “T” and “D” are
switched on.
Figure 4. Promax’s Satellite/Terrestrial and Analog Digital buttons.
Also you will have to check the tuning frequency, it has to be the same at the StreamXpress and at the TV
EXPLORER.
NOTE: Only CBR Transport Streams are supported
Exercise1
Explain the differences between DVB-H, DVB-C and DVB-T.
DVB-H: is a modulation standard for terrestrial handheld broadcasting used by countries that adopted
DVB standards
DVB-T: is a modulation standard for terrestrial broadcasting used by countries that adopted DVB
standards.
DVB-C: is a modulation standard for cable TV used by countries that adopted DVB standards.
Exercise2
Explain the differences between QPSK, 16-QAM, 64-QAM constellations.
Both 16 and 64-QAM are divided in groups of bits, as many as are needed to generate the N modulation
states. That’s why we talk about N-QAM. In the 16-QAM case, every 4 entrance bits, which provide 16
different values (0 - 15), the amplitude and the phase of the carrier are altered to derivative 16 unique
modulated states.
With QPSK the difference is the distribution of the symbols. They are equally separated around a circle.
QPSK can code 2 bits per symbol and the bit assignment it’s made by Gray code which can achieve a less
bit error rate. It’s also used to duplicate the data rate keeping the same bandwidth of the signal.
Exercise3
What do you see when you change the constellation? Try with N-QAM and QPSK. Comment the
differences.
If the change it’s between N-QAM, the only difference we will notice it’s the modulation error rate. The
symbols will appear more scattered, but the image it’s barely the same, you won’t distinguish any
differences.
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