{"id":6291,"date":"2012-01-29T12:12:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-29T01:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2012\/01\/29\/putting-17-meter-ssb-station-on-the-air\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T20:40:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T10:40:11","slug":"putting-17-meter-ssb-station-on-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2012\/01\/29\/putting-17-meter-ssb-station-on-the-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Putting 17 Meter SSB Station On the Air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/17SSB.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 299px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/17SSB.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5703026432986629890\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Magnificent, don&#8217;t you think? The sun is rising over Northern Virginia, and 17 meters is starting to come alive. Yesterday I finished the tweaking and peaking of the JBOT amplifier for the transmitter. It is nice and stable now. (And yes, Steve, it has a low-pass filter!) On top of the transmitter cabinet is the receiver. It is a Barebones Superhet designed by Doug DeMaw and built on a FAR circuit board by Dale Parfitt, W4OP. I changed it to 17 meters and broadened the filter response for use on SSB. Both the transmitter and the receiver use variable crystal oscillators, with two crystals in each (switch-able from the front panels). The frequency coverage of of the transmitter and the receiver match up fairly well (good thing!). Wish me luck! Today I will venture forth amidst the coronal mass ejections and try to make a few SSB contacts on good-ol&#8217; 17. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Our book: &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics&#8221;<a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm\">http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm<\/a>Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke\">http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke<\/a>Our Book Store: <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20\">http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Magnificent, don&#8217;t you think? The sun is rising over Northern Virginia, and 17 meters is starting to come alive. Yesterday I finished the tweaking and peaking of the JBOT amplifier for the transmitter. It is nice and stable now. (And yes, Steve, it has a low-pass filter!) On top of the transmitter cabinet is the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2012\/01\/29\/putting-17-meter-ssb-station-on-the-air\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Putting 17 Meter SSB Station On the Air&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,7,235,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-17-meters","category-demaw-doug","category-jbot","category-ssb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6291","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6293,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6291\/revisions\/6293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}