Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Dec 2009 QST p 50 - SSB vs. AM

2009-12-20 Thread Nate Duehr
On Dec 19, 2009, at 12:24 PM, Gary Pearce KN4AQ wrote: In doing a little research, I learned that SSB was originally created for long distance telephone use, for things like the Atlantic cable as Adam notes, in the early 1930's. It first appeared in Amateur Radio experimentally in 1947.

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Dec 2009 QST p 50 - SSB vs. AM

2009-12-20 Thread Gary Pearce KN4AQ
At 05:45 AM 12/20/2009, Nate Duehr wrote: On Dec 19, 2009, at 12:24 PM, Gary Pearce KN4AQ wrote: In doing a little research, I learned that SSB was originally created for long distance telephone use, for things like the Atlantic cable as Adam notes, in the early 1930's. It first appeared in

RE: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Dec 2009 QST p 50 - SSB vs. AM

2009-12-19 Thread Adam Farson
Hi Steve, I am not 100% sure about the dates cited, but where was the heresy? The 9 dB power advantage of SSB over AM, and the 50% reduction in occupied bandwidth when using SSB, are indisputable (at least from my perspective). Germany had a working public SSB radio-telephone link between New