FIRST? SINGLE SIDEBAND

[Gary Carter]

        I think I remember a recent article in Electric Radio concerning
amateur radio SSB experiments on the west coast during the mid '30s. I
believe it also mentioned that QST published one article on SSB in the
'30s, but no others.

        Gary - WA4IAM


Ray Colbert wrote:
> As I recall, SSB was first used by Western Electric
> for their overseas cable (?)telehphone circuits in the 1920
> to 1922 time frame.  There were some early published ssb
> transmitter info in I think the 50 year anniversary issues
> of QST.  The last time I worked on microwave systems,
> the mux cards were all ssb channels, about 3 khz wide
> upper and lower per channel.
> Amateur usage and experiments started in the
> late 40's and early 50's.  So unique at that time the pubs
> like QST and CQ had separate columns.
>
> 73
> Ray
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> know the forest, then you will fear the forest.'Luther Standing Bear'
> Ray Colbert, W5XE, OOTC#3618, SOWP#1064M NARTE-NCT2R
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