[Milsurplus] RCA SSB-1

[Marty Reynolds]

Perry, to quote

>>
>>The RCA SSB-1 was an equipment developed for use in Africa so that the
>>various landowners could communicate with each user at the time
>>of the Mau-Mau (sp?) uprisings.

natives were restless, eh?

>
>>In 1958 the U.S. Navy became interested in SSB.  Initial tests
>>were conducted on ships using mostly Collins Radio available amateur
>>equipment. There were 16 shps, as I recall, outfitted and used in air
>> defense
>>exercises to prove the advantage over the then used CW/AM circuits.
>>  Twenty-Four hour tapes on the side-by-side circuits proved the
>> overwhelming advantage of SSB communications.
>>

Has anyone besides me seen one of the "boat band" KWS-1s with 2 & 5(?)
mhz ranges??

  Marty the 'rm