Subj : Your First SSB XMTR
To   : Holger Granholm
From : Ed Vance
Date : Fri Jun 13 2014 11:04 pm

Holger,

I was thinking the other day about You saying that You built
a SSB rig in the early 1950's.

I was thinking to myself, was it a Phasing or Balanced Modulator rig?

I'd think You used the Phasing circuit, as the Central Electronics 10A,
10B and 20A SSB Transmitters did.

In the early 1960's I met a Ham in San Francisco, California who would
join in a QSO by tuning his 10A to Zero Beat on an AM'ers signal while
that Ham was talking and other Hams thought he was using AM until he
told them different.

Some AM'er didn't like it a bit.

Back then, was it like that in Europe as it was with some AM'ers in
the U.S.A., like the one Ham I met on the Navy Base that hated SSB with
a passion?  And didn't like the Ham using the 10A on 'Their' AM Freq.

When someone used SSB on 80M around the Louisville, Kentucky area in
the late 1950's, no one got excited about it, they just let the SSB'er
do his 'Experimenting' and flipped their Beat Frequency Oscillator ON
so they could hear what was said by the SSB'er.

The Ham with the SSB rig was a Old Timer, who also worked for a 2-way
Radio company as a service technician.
I can't remember what AM Rig he used at his QTH, but I know it sure
wasn't a Heathkit DX-40 like I used.   .... ..
Several Hams in the area had built Plate Modulated KiloWatt TX's,
and he may have been one of them, I don't know as I never visited his
Ham Shack.

Which made me want to ask You, does Your License allow You to use
One Kilowatt of Input Power at Your QTH in the Aland Islands?

Oh, another thing came to mind as I was writing.
My first experience using a Collins 32S-1 on CW made me think that
That Collins XMTR was Illegal to operate on CW because it used an
Audio Tone over the Supressed Carrier.
To my way of thinking back in 1961(2?) that was MCW (Modulated CW)
and MCW wasn't allowed on the High Frequency Ham Bands by US Hams IIRC.

73 . .

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