Single Sideband (SSB)

Why care? Because if you do piss one off and they find you either in your car or truck ( tag number/truck number ) or talking on your base ( house number ) talking where you should not be they will turn you into the FCC. There are hams that live to do this and that $10.000 fine and confiscation of ALL your equipment is no joke!

I am ham myself and i could care less where you talk and how much power you run but there are others that would want to see you fined for any reason.......just because you talk on a CB radio.

 

I got my first Shortwave radio in 1958 and started on CB in 1960 with a Heathkit CB radio I built. My dad had a license for the CB set back then.
My first license was dated in 1963. and by 1967 i had finshed school and held CB/HAM and the old FCC 1st Class ( Now General Radiotelephone Operators License ) when i went into the Army signal corps.

I would lissen to the debates about SSB/AM as a young kid and get to know the voices of many of the guys who were involved and MEET some of them before they became SK's. Yep it was just like today some loved SSB others did not .....

Station 1963

 

IMO SSB can be a pain in the rear while driving because you have to constantly "dial" the other party in with the clarifier, especially if their radio drifts around a lot. Which can take your concentration off the road.

Now if you were sitting at home and wanted to use the SSB, heck yeah. Go for it. It's an awesome mode to have.

They say it ain't a real radio unless it has SSB.

My 2 cents.

 

If I was to reinvent CB ... MURS ( VHF CB ) would be mandated in all cb radios and MURS power raised to 50 watts. Problem solved no drift no noise ....

FM is a far better mode in a car than SSB ....

 

Does a 10 meter have SSB??

 

Yes from 28.300-28.500 mhz if your a tech class if higher class it goes to 29.000 mhz you will find FM on 29.600 mhz and repeaters on 29.620, 29.640, 29.660 and 29.680 mhz

 

FM is FAR BETTER than AM or SSB in a car ...

Aircraft radios have been AM since the first ones in the 1920's ALL military Radios on 125 - 240 mhz are also AM however in the 225 - 400 mhz range many have both AM/FM modes. I used then for my first HAM staion on 2 meter AM back in the 60's I worked on them at several places in both production and engineering however Aircraft use AM because they have NO REASON to change over and it's unlikely they ever will.

The REASON Cb will not go FM is BANDWIDTH otherwise the FCC would have allowed it back to day 1 ( 1958 )

I work on FM radio systems and there is a good reason they rule just the fact many use REPEATERS makes AM or SSB next to useless .....

Bruce

Station mid 1960's built from WW2 radios the silver one is AIRCRAFT ( 1940"s )