10 meters today...

[koØm]

Yup. I was a kid during that.

"Once upon a time, long-long ago, when people wore pajamas and lived life slow...."

Transmitters and receiver were separate and discrete items, "friends" knew the game; I set my transmitter 1 KHz above the frequency, you set your transmitter 1 KHz below the channel, you tune your receiver to where you know I am and, I do the same with my receiver, tuning to where you are transmitting.

Generally speaking, all modern radios (transceivers) are channelized, your SSB signals are going to be x.xxx kilo-cycles above or below the AM carrier frequency.

For instance, in the old daze, the Liberty Band was at the lower side band 3.950 MHz so, you had to tune your receiver down to where you found the lower side band of the transmitting station.

It's almost 2020 and, I still have friends stuck in the CB 1970's with the transistor amps, Big AC shoot-out trucks and 6 element beams in their yard. You will find them on 27.025 MHz praying for sporadic E propagation.

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[KD8TUT]

"Once upon a time, long-long ago, when people wore pajamas and lived life slow...."

Transmitters and receiver were separate and discrete items, "friends" knew the game; I set my transmitter 1 KHz above the frequency, you set your transmitter 1 KHz below the channel, you tune your receiver to where you know I am and, I do the same with my receiver, tuning to where you are transmitting.

Generally speaking, all modern radios (transceivers) are channelized, your SSB signals are going to be x.xxx kilo-cycles above or below the AM carrier frequency.

For instance, in the old daze, the Liberty Band was at the lower side band 3.950 MHz so, you had to tune your receiver down to where you found the lower side band of the transmitting station.

It's almost 2020 and, I still have friends stuck in the CB 1970's with the transistor amps, Big AC shoot-out trucks and 6 element beams in their yard. You will find them on 27.025 MHz praying for sporadic E propagation.

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I moved on from it by 1980. But remained SWL until I was licensed.

At least back in the day I knew enough to not overdrive a cheap 5 watt transmitter.