[Milsurplus] SSB-1 sighting

[Nick England]

The SSB-1 is an interesting transceiver IMHO. You don’t often see RCA
mechanical filters and you don’t often see a commercial rig that was used
on many US Navy warships. It was an interim SSB rig used until the Navy
started installing the Collins URC-32. The Navy also designed a 4 channel
antenna tuner AN/SRA-20 to use with the 4 channel SSB-1 and the Navy’s
standard 35’ whip. Interestingly, the antenna tuner includes a
sound-powered telephone jack, handy when one person is adjusting the tuner
on deck while the rig’s operator is below decks.

I have photos and info at
http://www.navy-radio.com/xmtrs/ssb1.htm

Cheers
Nick


On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 5:09 PM Hubert Miller <Kargo_cult at msn.com> wrote:

> At the PSARA open swap meet, August 19 in Seattle, we saw an RCA SSB-1. If
> I recall, it was on casters. After some dickering, the price was
>
> rolled back to zero, but there were no takers. I heard the seller say it
> weighed around 160 lbs. and that concluded the issue for me. It appeared
>
> to be in very good condition.
>
> I had  a two-deck Northern Radio set for sale at $25-30, no takers and few
> lookers even. I think I'll offer it at Rickreall in October and if it
> doesn't
>
> go, I think I'll just keep the 0.5 – 18 MHz tunable receiver section. This
> is a 1950s boat radio but I liked that the receiver has a hole plug for the
> BFO option, which could be added now. The transmitter deck has 2x 807
> modulated by same, and the iron to do that, plus a dynamotor, so this
>
> is one heavy guy. I have a 4 inch gouge in my leg where the beast gored me
> when I was moving it and it still hurts.
>
> -Hue
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Nick England K4NYW
www.navy-radio.com
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