[Milsurplus] RCA SSB-1

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At 09:32 AM 6/16/2007, Marty Reynolds wrote:

>Perry I won't stop beating this one.  Noodling again.
>
> >>A bit of SSB-1 History ..
> >>
> >>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.
>
>Perhaps it wasn't ssb "punch" so much as the implicit encoding.
>
>IE, the inability short-wave portables of the times to demodulate
>the exchanged info w/o bfos.

Good point!  I'm sure that was a big factor in those predominantly AM days.

Perry