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Commercial AM has a 5kHz bandwidth (4.5kHz in Europe), commercial FM 50kHz (29kHz if mono). The remainder of the channel is guardband.


Source for 270: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM_broadcasting. Search there for “necessary bandwidth”.

For AM, that’s 5KHz+-, or 10 total.




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