
195Experiment 12: Direct-Conversion Receiver
RECEIVING AUDIO TRANSMISSIONS
If you keep tuning upward in frequency, you get into the band allocated for
voice transmissions. SSB audio is related to AM but is more efficient in the
sense that it requires only half the bandwidth, the range of frequencies
occupied by a single transmission.
The SSB transmissions are very sensitive to the tuning of the receiver. If the
tuning is slightly off, the voice can be understood but the pitch is wrong. For
larger tuning errors, the voice becomes garbled and unintelligible. It takes
practice to get the tuning right, and on this receiver it can be quite difficult ...