{"id":6776,"date":"2011-04-18T12:33:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T02:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/04\/18\/don-norgaard-w2kuj-ssb-pioneer\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T21:40:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T11:40:00","slug":"don-norgaard-w2kuj-ssb-pioneer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/04\/18\/don-norgaard-w2kuj-ssb-pioneer\/","title":{"rendered":"Don Norgaard, W2KUJ &#8212;  SSB Pioneer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/norgaard180.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 242px; height: 400px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/norgaard180.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5596901129110062226\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">In <\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm\">SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics<\/a> <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">I tell of how I struggled to understand the inner workings of my Hallicraters HT-37 single sideband transmitter. This rig used the phasing method of sideband generation, and as a kid I just couldn&#8217;t understand how it really worked. And this really bothered me. As I recount in the book, through a QST article that was reprinted in the ARRL book <\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\">SSB for the Radio Amateur<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">, Don Norgaard came to my rescue and allowed me to understand the phasing method. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">It was only recently that &#8212; through reading the August 1998 issue of an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ermag.com\/\">Electric Radio Magazine <\/a>article by Jim Hanlon, W8KGI &#8212; that I came to realize that Don was one of the true pioneers of SSB. I think this blog post may be one of the first presentations online of a picture of OM Norgaard. The 1951 QST article notes that &#8220;the face may be unfamiliar.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">In addition to writing very clear QST articles, Don was the creator of a rig that &#8220;revolutionized amateur use of SSB.&#8221; It was a three tube 75 meter SSB transmitter called the &#8220;SSB, Jr.&#8221; From Jim Hanlon&#8217;s article: &#8220;It used nothing more complicated than simple coils, condensers, resistors, one carrier frequency oscillator crystal, four germanium diodes and three tubes in the classic phasing circuit to put out 5 watts PEP.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Three cheers for Don Norgaard! Three cheers for the phasing method! <\/span><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics I tell of how I struggled to understand the inner workings of my Hallicraters HT-37 single sideband transmitter. This rig used the phasing method of sideband generation, and as a kid I just couldn&#8217;t understand how it really worked. And this really bothered me. As I recount &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/04\/18\/don-norgaard-w2kuj-ssb-pioneer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Don Norgaard, W2KUJ &#8212;  SSB Pioneer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-radio-history","category-ssb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6776","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=6776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6778,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6776\/revisions\/6778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}