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
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
Thanks for the plug, Steve! QST seems to like my no-so-cookie-cutter
reviews. Hopefully you all do, too.
The 880 review starts off with a very brief mention of the transition from
AM to SSB. That took place in Amateur Radio beginning around 1949 (the year
I was born), and was still in proces
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 Y
