{"id":5856,"date":"2021-09-19T21:32:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-19T11:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/09\/19\/much-ssb-tribal-knowledge-in-bill-orrs-1959-handbook\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:04:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:04:34","slug":"much-ssb-tribal-knowledge-in-bill-orrs-1959-handbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/09\/19\/much-ssb-tribal-knowledge-in-bill-orrs-1959-handbook\/","title":{"rendered":"Much SSB Tribal Knowledge in Bill Orr’s 1959 Handbook"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n
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There is a lot of really excellent information and tribal knowledge in the 1959 issue of Bill Orr’s Radio Handbook. I was especially taken by Chapter 17 (SSB) and Chapter 28 (Low Power Transmitters and Exciters). <\/b><\/div>\n

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Looking at the 1959 SSB rigs, I don’t see any information that points to the origin of the LSB\/USB convention. Most of these rigs — especially the phasing rigs — include provisions for switching to either sideband. <\/b><\/div>\n

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Check out the “Glove Compartment Sideband Exciter.” <\/b><\/div>\n
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Here is the link to the Orr book: <\/b><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.rsp-italy.it\/Electronics\/Books\/_contents\/radio\/The%20radio%20handbook%2015th%20-%20William%20I%20Orr%20-%201959.pdf<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

Thanks to Tony K3DY for sending us the link that led us to this book. There are many other great books there: http:\/\/www.rsp-italy.it\/Electronics\/Books\/indexhtm<\/a> <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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There is a lot of really excellent information and tribal knowledge in the 1959 issue of Bill Orr’s Radio Handbook. I was especially taken by Chapter 17 (SSB) and Chapter 28 (Low Power Transmitters and Exciters). Looking at the 1959 SSB rigs, I don’t see any information that points to the origin of the LSB\/USB … Continue reading “Much SSB Tribal Knowledge in Bill Orr’s 1959 Handbook”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,23,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-ssb","category-tubes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5856","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=5856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5859,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5856\/revisions\/5859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}