Long time viewer... back when you used your R8500 and a RadioShack amplified speaker. Early on, I found fine frequency resolution and IF shift to make a huge difference after a proper wire antenna with a preselector.
I find SSB is really useful for shortwave and medium wave broadcasts as well. It gives you another option to kind of reconstruct those weak signals. I do find that on radios without it, depending on the signal, you can still kind of tell what hams are saying, and I can usually even pick up a few ft8 decodes. So it may be worth going through those bands even if you don’t have that feature!
You share fantastic information for beginners. Maybe you could record a tutorial video about all amateur and broadcast bands. What are their properties and at what time of the day can they be listened to?
SSB is pretty well all I listen to. It's where the action is. Nice presentation! 👍
Long time viewer... back when you used your R8500 and a RadioShack amplified speaker.
Early on, I found fine frequency resolution and IF shift to make a huge difference after a proper wire antenna with a preselector.
I find SSB is really useful for shortwave and medium wave broadcasts as well. It gives you another option to kind of reconstruct those weak signals. I do find that on radios without it, depending on the signal, you can still kind of tell what hams are saying, and I can usually even pick up a few ft8 decodes. So it may be worth going through those bands even if you don’t have that feature!
I wish I was able to see this video when I was just starting out. Fortunately my first few radios had SSB.
I like my Sihuadon D-108 that has SSB built in! Thanks, Gilles...
Good presentation.
At last I hear someone talking about the confusing SSB, that doesn't make much difference on the quality of the reception.
You share fantastic information for beginners. Maybe you could record a tutorial video about all amateur and broadcast bands. What are their properties and at what time of the day can they be listened to?
I got my hands on a tentec. V-bfo. And use that on my rig that don't have ssb. So as a bat man and Robin goes I decode that joker ssb. hi hi