ITU-R Recommendation ITU-R SM.329 [
24] on Unwanted emissions in the spurious domain provides a definition of dBc unit, which is defined as “Decibels relative to the unmodulated carrier power of the emission. In the cases which do not have a carrier, for example in some digital modulation schemes where the carrier is not accessible for measurement, the reference level equivalent to dBc is decibels relative to the mean power P. From this recommendation the following example is presented:
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