Amateur Extra · FCC ELEMENT 4

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Amateur Extra · FCC Element 4 · answer reveals automatically

How much does increasing a receiver’s bandwidth from 50 Hz to 1,000 Hz increase the receiver’s noise floor?

Answer13 dB

Noise power rises in proportion to bandwidth. Increasing bandwidth from 50 Hz to 1000 Hz is a factor of 20, or about 13 dB.