It is. The correct name is single sideband suppressed carrier AM (SSSC AM)
Iyt is amplitude modulation.
Ron
K3MIY
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From: tentec-bounces@contesting.com
[mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com]On Behalf Of James Duffer
Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 9:39 AM
To: tentec@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TenTec] AM, was "Just noticed ..."
I was under the impression that SSB suppressed carrier is a form of AM
(unless modulated by a single sinusoidal audio tone).
>From: "geraldj" <geraldj@storm.weather.net>
>Reply-To: geraldj@weather.net,Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
><tentec@contesting.com>
>To: gsm@mendelson.com,Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
><tentec@contesting.com>,geraldj@weather.net
>CC: ken.d.brown@hawaiiantel.net
>Subject: Re: [TenTec] AM, was "Just noticed ..."
>Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 07:03:28 -0600
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>---------- Original Message -----------
>From: "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm@mendelson.com>
>To: geraldj@weather.net, Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
><tentec@contesting.com>
>Cc: ken.d.brown@hawaiiantel.net
>Sent: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 15:55:01 +0300
>Subject: Re: [TenTec] AM, was "Just noticed ..."
>
> > On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 06:42:16AM -0600, geraldj wrote:
> > > Some SW AM Broadcasters have been running SSB AM for years.
>
>And you don't have the phase differences in propagation between the two
>side bands to
>sound bad at times.
>
>73, Jerry, K0CQ
> >
> > It makes sense to them, it saves electricity, it reduces adjacent
>channel
> > interference, and it's 100% compatible with the "legacy" radios.
> >
> > As for ham radio, it may not make sense. It does not produce the
>"broadcast
> > quality" voice that some people want. Depending upon the radio, and how
> > it is designed and aligned, it may sound wonderful or it may sound bad.
> >
> > It's like many other "compatability" modes. It works, but it may not
> > work as well as the original.
> >
> > IMHO if you want to join an AM net, it gives you the capability. If you
> > want to keep alive AM as a mode, and preserve that part of the radio
> > art, it won't.
> >
> > It's like CW, Ten-Tec rigs are designed to do CW well, some of the
>competition
> > is designed to do SSB well and include CW because they think they have
>to,
> > but almost no one will use it.
> >
> > Geoff.
> >
> > --
> > Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel gsm@mendelson.com N3OWJ/4X1GM
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