Amateur Radio Theory Articles

Single Side Band – SSB – Part 2

Single Sideband Suppressed Carrier (SSB-SC): Single Sideband Suppressed Carrier (SSB-SC) modulation was the basis for all long distance telephone communications up until the last decade. It was called "L carrier." It consisted of groups of telephone conversations...

Single Side Band – SSB – Part 1

What is Single Side-band? Before you can understand what SSB is, you must understand how audio is transmitted via radio waves. The method by which audio is impressed on a radio signal is called modulation. The two types of modulation that most people are familiar with...

Quad Amplitude Modulation

Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM)- Brief Discussion I & Q modulation, A.K.A., QAM, is a method for sending two separate (and uniquely different) channels of information. As you know, the carrier is shifted to create two carriers: sin and cos versions. The two...