Amateur Extra · FCC ELEMENT 4

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Amateur Extra · FCC Element 4 · answer reveals automatically

Why is a 3 kHz-wide USB signal with a displayed carrier of 14.348 MHz not legal?

AnswerIts upper 1 kHz extends beyond the 20-meter band edge.

For USB, transmitted energy lies above the displayed carrier frequency, so the entire occupied bandwidth must fit below the upper band edge.