### Instruction:

Extract the cause and effect entities from the following sentence:
If the transmitter has too high a duty cycle, this pulse-blanking method could unacceptably degrade receiver performance

### Assistant:

KEYWORD: If
VARIABLE: this pulse-blanking method
CONDITION: could unacceptably degrade receiver performance
CAUSE_1: the transmitter has too high a duty cycle
EFFECT_1: this pulse-blanking method could unacceptably degrade receiver performance

