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Although overmodulation is sometimes considered permissible, it should not occur in practice; a distorted waveform envelope will result in a distorted output signal of the receiving medium.
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of the recovered modulating signal. This means that the envelope of the output waveform is distorted.
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condition. In layman's terms, the signal is going "off the scale". Overmodulation results in
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Excessive modulation resulting in distortion of signal
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