[ARC5] W2EWL BC-458 based SSB rig redone in Nov 2013 ER

[Kenneth G. Gordon]

On 16 Nov 2013 at 23:22, Robert Nickels wrote:

> > A friend and fellow ham, Bob Leo, who was/is an EE professor at
> > Montana State University in Bozeman was very instrumental in
> > designing this.
> 
> I wasn't aware of that, but I met Bob Leo at the WIMU hamfest a couple
> of times back in the 70s, and he's truly a ham's ham...

Yes. I REALLY liked Bob. I don't know if he is still living, but if he is, and if 
you see him again, you might ask him about his experiences setting up 
communications systems in Vietnam.

> The "Weaver Method" aka third method of SSB generation is described in
> Don Stoner's "New Sideband Handbook" that was published by CQ. It was
> used commercially in the Redifon GR-400 four-channel
> transmitter/receiver, which is pictured, and to my knowledge, that's
> the only time.       The easiest article to access is the Sept. 1957
> QST article on the "The third method of SSB" by W1PNB, which can be
> downloaded by ARRL members.    The D.K. Weaver paper appeared in
> Proceedings of the IRE, Dec. 1956.

Dennis Weaver was one of Bob's grad students... It would be just like Bob to 
give Dennis all the credit for it too.

> It's a perfectly elegant method and nowadays in the era of SDR, 
> everything is phasing!

Yes. It is very elegant! :-)

Ken