"well regarding the sideband issue, my understanding is that it was done that way because of the technical limitation of the mixer or sideband filtering method of the rigs back then would no allow the lower frequencies "
I beleve your right. I had several " PHASE " type 1950's SSB radios years ago and they used strange ballanced/doubleblanced phaising to get SSB. They had ZIP abilty to be moved around. Otherwise they worked just fine ..... Today the FT-817 weights about the same as ONE of the many phaising coils ....... Progress ...... you got to love it. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a PS3 game guru. Get your game face on with the latest PS3 news and previews at Yahoo! Games. http://videogames.yahoo.com/platform?platform=120121
