What is meant by the term noise figure of a...

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• Difference between external noise picked up by the antenna and internal noise created inside the receiver circuits • How receiver performance is quantified in terms of signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) at the input vs. at the output • Which receiver characteristic describes selectivity vs. which one describes internally generated noise

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• Ask yourself: Is this term describing noise coming from outside the receiver or noise produced by the receiver itself? • Consider how engineers compare a theoretically perfect receiver with a real receiver that adds some noise—what metric expresses that degradation? • Which of the options sounds like a measure (a number or ratio) rather than a descriptive ability like rejection or filtering?

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• Identify which choices describe internal noise created by the receiver, not noise from the antenna or the environment • Separate functions like selectivity (rejecting nearby frequencies) from those that describe noise performance • Focus on which option could be expressed as a ratio or numerical figure comparing signal-to-noise at input vs. output

What is meant by the term noise figure of a communications receiver?

The level of noise entering the receiver from the antenna.

The relative strength of a received signal 3 kHz removed from the carrier frequency.

The level of noise generated in the front end and succeeding stages of a receiver.

The ability of a receiver to reject unwanted signals at frequencies close to the desired one.

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