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digital signal modulation

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  In telecommunication: Phase-shift keying
  When phase is the parameter altered by the information signal, the method is called phase-shift keying (PSK). In the simplest form of PSK a single radio frequency carrier is sent with a fixed phase to represent a 0 and with a 180° phase…
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modems

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  In modem: The first generation
  …Bell 212 made use of phase-shift keying, or PSK, to modulate a 1,800-hertz carrier signal. In PSK, data is represented as phase shifts of a single carrier signal. Thus, a binary 1 might be sent as a zero-degree phase shift, while a binary 0 might be sent as a 180-degree…
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