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

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