[Elecraft] K3: Terminology

[Tony Estep]

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 8:44 PM, Jim Lowman <jmlowman at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Indeed, SSB was not universally accepted at first....

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That's for sure. There were very entertaining SSB vs AM wars on the high
end of 40 meters (and I think on 80 too), back in those pre-CB days when
all hams used the word 'key' to refer to pressing PTT. One of the most
memorable icons of this battle was the fantastic AM transmitter at W3PHL,
described in an article in the Feb 1963 issue of 73 magazine. You can find
pictures of it on line, and maybe the article too. The passbands of
receivers were a funny shape in those days, and the BFO was separately
tunable. Magazines had articles explaining how to tune in the new mode; I
remember one in QST that had an illustration showing a bunch of ducks
flying out of a ham speaker, all wavy and distorted. Then the befuddled op
followed the instructions in the article, and the next illustration showed
the ducks looking happy as they flew out.

Tony KT0NY



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