[ARC5] Inspired Hack Job

[john rose]

"Cheap and easy SSB" appeared in QST March 1956 pg 16 by Anthony Vitale W2EWL. A follow up article, of a sort, "'Cheap and Easy SSB' Goes on 15" QST August 1959 by John Fill K2GC/4. The BC-458 is 'heavily modified' as I interpret the photos.

The article I referenced is "A Surplus SSB Exciter". Unfortunately when CQ republished the articles in The Conversion Handbook and Command Sets, almost all names and calls were removed unless the call was in the body of the story. In the handbook the call W6TZB is mentioned, but removed in Command Sets. Anyone have a 1959 or 1960 Call book? The conversion is, indeed, to a VFO which fed into a SSB generator he had.

W2EWL is now a vanity call issued to Ken Kinderman of Bronxville, NY.
K2gc is now issued to Gerald Rosenkrantz of Hewlett NY. (Is there a city of Packard nearby?)
W6TZB is not in the database.


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> From: kgordon2006 at frontier.com
> To: hwhall at compuserve.com
> Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 04:37:48 +0000
> CC: Arc5 at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [ARC5] Inspired Hack Job
>
> On 5 Mar 2013 at 23:17, hwhall at compuserve.com wrote:
>
> > >
> > I remember it because I thought at the time it was so odd to use a receiver to
> > build an SSB exciter around.
> > >
> >
> > If I remember right, that conversion that was in the surplus conversion
> > handbook really seemed to be only to make the heterodyne frequency
> > conversion sections. The SSB generation itself wasn't in the article.
>
> Yes. I just looked that one up. However, the one I remember was a complete exciter. I'll have
> to do some more digging. I am almost positive it was in a GE Ham News....
>
> Ken W7EKB
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