Radio Amateur Quiz Canadian License

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Question A-005-007-005

Adding one bit to the word length, is equivalent to adding ____ dB to the dynamic range of the digitizer:

Correct Answer

6 dB

Explanation

Each bit added to a digitizer's word length doubles the number of quantization levels. This corresponds to an increase in dynamic range of 20 log10(2) ≈ 6.02 dB.

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