Subj : Re: Your First SSB XMTR To : Ed Vance From : Holger Granholm Date : Tue Jun 17 2014 10:11 am In a message dated 06-13-14, Ed Vance said to Holger Granholm: GM Ed, EV> I was thinking the other day about You saying that You built EV> a SSB rig in the early 1950's. Correct, this is the SSB history of Finland and the Aland Islands: History Starts here ...... I have been licensed since 1951 and operated CW, AM and NBFM prior to the SSB era. I started the SSB era as OH2OJ in Finland 1955 by building a phasing exciter similar to the Central Electronics 20A using the PS-1 phase shift unit. The outboard VFO came from a BC-458 surplus transmitter. With this rig I came on the air on nov. 26th 1955 as first OH on SSB. In 1956 I built a Sideband Slicer   la Central Electronics as an addition to the Geloso G-207 receiver and also a 150 W Power amplifier with a 4-65A tube. 1957 I built my second SSB transmitter, the "Cheap and Easy S.S.B." as described in QST by W2EWL in the march 1956 issue. Also a phasing rig, built on the chassis of a surplus BC-458 transmitter with only the VFO and PA tubes remaining. The AF phase shift unit was a B&W 2Q4. The receiver for this station was a surplus BC-453 receiver with an outboard 14 MHz converter. I used this station to put OH0 on the SSB map as OH2OJ/OH0 in the summer of 1957. The same year in november I moved permanently to OH0. END of history --------- EV> I'd think You used the Phasing circuit, as the Central Electronics EV> 10A, 10B and 20A SSB Transmitters did. The first SSB exciter/transmiter used the CE Phase Shift Network and the second used the B&W 2Q4 Phase shift network. EV> Some AM'er didn't like it a bit. Well, locally I was called Donald Duck but that was all. EV> Back then, was it like that in Europe as it was with some AM'ers in EV> the U.S.A., like the one Ham I met on the Navy Base that hated SSB EV> with a passion? Most stations i was talking to were americans stationed in Germany after the war. Some early SSB starters in various countries were also worked. EV> When someone used SSB on 80M around the Louisville, Kentucky area in EV> the late 1950's, no one got excited about it, they just let the EV> SSB'er do his 'Experimenting' and flipped their Beat Frequency EV> Oscillator ON so they could hear what was said by the SSB'er. I remember that I used the idle carrier of Radio Moscow on 40 meters during some contests. There was no program sent during the night. EV> Which made me want to ask You, does Your License allow You to use EV> One Kilowatt of Input Power at Your QTH in the Aland Islands? Well, I could update my license to 1 kW by just requesting it but I've never felt a need for it. 100 - 200 Wo has always been enough and pse remember; being in a rare country ups your signal several db. EV> Oh, another thing came to mind as I was writing. EV> My first experience using a Collins 32S-1 on CW made me think that EV> That Collins XMTR was Illegal to operate on CW because it used an EV> Audio Tone over the Supressed Carrier. That has never been illegal here. With a well suppressed carrier the only signal you hear is carrier. 73 de Sam, OH0NC aka Holger ___ * MR/2 2.30 * We learn from history that we do not learn from history. --- PCBoard (R) v15.22 (OS/2) 2 * Origin: Coming to you from the Sunny Aland Islands. (2:20/228) .