On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 8:44 PM, Jim Lowman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Indeed, SSB was not universally accepted at first.... ================= That's for sure. There were very entertaining SSB vs AM wars on the high end of 40 meters (and I think on 80 too), back in those pre-CB days when all hams used the word 'key' to refer to pressing PTT. One of the most memorable icons of this battle was the fantastic AM transmitter at W3PHL, described in an article in the Feb 1963 issue of 73 magazine. You can find pictures of it on line, and maybe the article too. The passbands of receivers were a funny shape in those days, and the BFO was separately tunable. Magazines had articles explaining how to tune in the new mode; I remember one in QST that had an illustration showing a bunch of ducks flying out of a ham speaker, all wavy and distorted. Then the befuddled op followed the instructions in the article, and the next illustration showed the ducks looking happy as they flew out. Tony KT0NY -- http://www.isb.edu/faculty/facultydir.aspx?ddlFaculty=352 ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
