{"id":2408,"date":"2021-12-30T09:55:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T22:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/12\/30\/mccoy-ssb-crystal-filters-1963-but-apparently-not-the-real-lew-mccoy\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:04:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:04:05","slug":"mccoy-ssb-crystal-filters-1963-but-apparently-not-the-real-lew-mccoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/12\/30\/mccoy-ssb-crystal-filters-1963-but-apparently-not-the-real-lew-mccoy\/","title":{"rendered":"McCoy SSB Crystal Filters (1963)  &#8212; But Apparently NOT the Real (Lew) McCoy"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEimbPSQ8cmvb3p350KHTS6bteX1KlFGoebdOeVYGQQN17z85EDVaApygJJivWrLDLcc_5d2g3-6m6mui8bB6fYDVFGlqIiiJ6f7MsIHSih-vx7Aa5JFW7O9VMP1eANaBo_b43CwU82cEWSK2yG1Mlym0UwA8ePTDMr6dQnstnmW4nUzYlO83WnaNAmO=s954\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"954\" data-original-width=\"638\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/image_1753067652.jpg\" width=\"268\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>Last month we were talking about this company. <a href=\"https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2021\/11\/kg7trs-magnificent-75s-2b-receiver.html#comment-form\">Someone thought it was run by Lew McCoy<\/a> of ARRL Homebrew fame, but it now appears that our Lew McCoy was not involved in the company. <\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>Note how they provide TWO carrier oscillator\/BFO crystals for each 9 MHz filter, one for USB, the other for LSB. <\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>They were pricey too: In 2021 dollars, that Golden Guardian would cost $390. <\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>Thanks to the K9YA Telegraph for posting the ad. <\/b><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month we were talking about this company. Someone thought it was run by Lew McCoy of ARRL Homebrew fame, but it now appears that our Lew McCoy was not involved in the company. Note how they provide TWO carrier oscillator\/BFO crystals for each 9 MHz filter, one for USB, the other for LSB. They &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/12\/30\/mccoy-ssb-crystal-filters-1963-but-apparently-not-the-real-lew-mccoy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;McCoy SSB Crystal Filters (1963)  &#8212; But Apparently NOT the Real (Lew) McCoy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,262,132,31,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-filters","category-mccoy-lew","category-mythbuster","category-radio-history","category-ssb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2410,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408\/revisions\/2410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}