{"id":11883,"date":"2014-12-28T09:01:14","date_gmt":"2014-12-28T13:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=11883"},"modified":"2014-12-28T09:08:23","modified_gmt":"2014-12-28T13:08:23","slug":"ssb-for-the-non-technical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/ssb-for-the-non-technical\/","title":{"rendered":"SSB for the non-technical"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SSB\"<\/a><\/p>\n

SWLing Post<\/em> reader, Eleanor White, writes:<\/p>\n

[I] have a short article\u00a0I put together for those interested in\u00a0disaster preparedness, to give non-techies\u00a0the basics of tuning an SSB signal.s<\/p>\n

Here’s the link:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.randomcollection.info\/ssb-tuning.pdf<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Many thanks for sharing your article, Eleanor!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SWLing Post reader, Eleanor White, writes: [I] have a short article\u00a0I put together for those interested in\u00a0disaster preparedness, to give non-techies\u00a0the basics of tuning an SSB signal.s Here’s the link: http:\/\/www.randomcollection.info\/ssb-tuning.pdf Many thanks for sharing your article, Eleanor!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,627,3,26,43],"tags":[3500,3501,3499],"class_list":["post-11883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-how-to","category-news","category-radios","category-shortwave-radio","tag-eleanor-white","tag-single-sideband","tag-ssb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-35F","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30044,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/ssb-reception-examples-with-the-xhdata-d-808-portable-receiver\/","url_meta":{"origin":11883,"position":0},"title":"SSB Reception Examples with the XHDATA D-808 Portable Receiver","author":"Guy Atkins","date":"January 7, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"In my earlier article on this receiver, I shared reception videos of three weak medium wave stations and a single shortwave outlet, all demonstrated in AM mode. 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