[ARC5] SSB Transceiver from a BC-453

[millerke6f at aol.com]

FWI if it has not been mentioned, the CQ SSB handbook provides a fairly good description of the BC453 SSB conversion scheme.  The pictures and text are a bit displaced in the book and if memory serves the CQ folks left out the original designer's call letters in many of the included articles>   BTW the tri band home brew SSB transmitter is quite impressive
Bob, KE6F


-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Nickels <ranickel at comcast.net>
To: arc5 at mailman.qth.net
Sent: Sun, Sep 6, 2020 2:03 pm
Subject: Re: [ARC5] SSB Transceiver from a BC-453

On 9/6/2020 3:23 PM, Al Klase wrote:
>
> Thanks.  That's an epic hack, and was well worth a look.

True (in the best sense of that word), but it was not out of the 
ordinary for Ernie Mason, W6IQY who did the technical work and his buddy 
Ed Marriner W6BLZ who helped write it up.   Ed was a prolific builder 
and author and Ernie designed one SSB transceiver after another,  
unfortunately none were documented like this one was.    Anyone who's 
interested in homebrew SSB from that era, which often centered around 
using surplus parts, might enjoy looking at the three band transceiver 
that was designed and built by Ernie a bit after the BC-453 project - a 
marvel of compact design!

https://tinyurl.com/rjqq6eo

This rig came to me via Dean Billing, WA6IKJ, who had the excellent 
fortune to have been mentored by Ernie, and who built one of the BC-453 
rigs while in high school.   But Dean was never sure it worked quite 
right and with college and family moves, the rig got lost in the 
shuffle.   However, he is thinking about giving it another go!   Dean 
made the trip to the W9DYV Symposium at Winterfest in St. Louis back in 
January and we presented and displayed the rig shown above.

I've added a couple of photos of happy builders of the BC-453 conversion 
to the article to show that despite the complexity it was in fact 
successfully done by some number of hams who used them on the air.   
Ernie himself built at least four versions, trying out new ideas that 
would lead to his scratch-built transceivers.

I've also obtained a very compact all-band mobile transceiver, the only 
other known example of Ernie's craftsmanship and will be adding 
information about it soon.

73, Bob W9RAN


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