Key & Carrier. SSB makes a transmitter at least four times as potent as an ordinary amplitude modulated (AM) rig of the same power. AM transmitters operate over a wide belt of frequencies—a ...

There was a time when the idea of building your own single-sideband transceiver was too daunting for all but the most hardcore of amateur radio constructors. After all the process of creating SSB ...

He is the designer of the BitX, a simple single-sideband transceiver that could be built for a very small outlay taking many of its components from a well-stocked junk box.

Dunn recalls the history of SSB within ham radio from the 1950s when most voice communication was done through amplitude modulation.

Labor: For a single-sideband transceiver such as the Heath SB-102, figure two or three hours per night for a month or so to build the kit.

LASER COMPONENTS supplies the ModBox-CBand-CS-SSB which is an Optical Transmitter Frequency shifter based on high order optical Carrier Suppressed Single Side Band modulation. The ModBox operates in ...