Module # 180 Product Detector Balanced Modulator - MAX-SSB Transceiver Project

Construction is complete on the MAX-SSB's Module # 180 Product-Detector / Balanced-Modulator.
In this video I show the balanced modulator being adjusted to suppress the carrier to -50dB as reference to the carrier level in the "tune" or unbalanced mode. The adjustments controls consist of a 500 ohm Potentiometer and a 5-50 pF variable capacitor (see schematic). The goal is to get the carrier output as low as possible by adjusting the Potentiometer and the variable capacitor in a back-and-forth pattern until the minimum carrier output is observed.
Schematic:
www.remmepark.com/circuit6040/...
Full MAX-SSB project page:
www.remmepark.com/circuit6040/...

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As a telegraphist I would like to point out that having CW playing in the background is a terrible-terrible idea. I can't focus when two people are talking simultaneously.

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R2AUK, Wow yes, you are so right, CW is indeed a language. Thank you for pointing this out.