Topband: Nostalgic "openings"

[Bruce]

There was a article in the June 1953 QST Page 47,  that used a BC-457 as a 
high level mixer into the 1625's to get on 40 meter SSB  from  4 MHZ. On 
Page 47 there is a diagram for the W2JJC SSB exciter using a half lattice 
crystal network.  A group picture at the bottom page 47 shows SSB operators 
from all W call areas. Part of the caption  "A stranger in the back of the 
camera is explaining why he thinks s.s.b. isn't here to stay."

My first SSB transmitter was built from an article called "An Imp". only 
remember making only one local contact with it. Then I found a schematic of 
a Hallicrafters HT-32. I home built one but reversed the VFO and sideband 
frequencies so I could use a McCoy 9 MHZ SSB filter. Could heterodyne 9 and 
5 MHz to get 80 and 20 meters. Used another mixer to get other bands.
Lots of fun. The AM phone guys called us Donald Duckers... Lot of quack 
quack noise.

73
Bruce
www.qsl.net/k1fz/beveragenotes.html




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Waters" <mikewate at gmail.com>
To: "Charlie Cunningham" <charlie-cunningham at nc.rr.com>
Cc: "topband" <topband at contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2014 7:09 PM
Subject: Re: Topband: Nostalgic "openings"


>I built EXACTLY the same thing when I was in high school (or maybe junior
> high) !
> I think the plans for that DSB arrangement were in an old CQ magazine.
>
> 73, Mike
> www.w0btu.com
>
> On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Charlie Cunningham <
> charlie-cunningham at nc.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> The first "sideband" rig I ever had -back in the 1950s was a T-19 (3-4 
>> Mc)
>> ARC-5 in which I converted the 1625 finals to a high-level balanced
>> modulator by connecting the balanced grid tank to apply RF in push-pull 
>> to
>> the control grids and applied push-pull audio transformer coupled to the
>> screen grids and left the plates in parallel.
>>
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