What is Sideband Radio?

'SSB' stands for 'single side band' but in fact isn't really a band at all. SSB is more effectively described as a mode similar to AM or FM.  SSB is an extremely reliable method of capturing your voice into a radio wave as well as the transmission of such a radio wave.

The procedure of applying a voice to a radio wave is referred to as modulation. To modulate a radio wave is to include information to it in order that it can be received.

Most people will recognise one of the more typical types of modulation, AM (amplitude modulation), and also FM, (Frequency Modulation), providing the AM and also FM bands their usual name.

You will possibly have made use of FM or AM yourself, through children's walkie talkies or remote controlled toys.

When in AM mode, your voice modulates, (is superimposed), on a carrier wave at a specified frequency by your transceiver as well as it being transmitted across the the air waves.

The carrier wave is used to "carry" the audio signal to an AM receiver where it is received as well as converted back to an audio signal permitting the voice message sent to be understood.




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