On Sun, 27 May 2007 17:41:19 GMT, Arthur Dent
wrote:

I just purchased a Eton E5 radio with SSB. When I switch to SSB mode,
I can never hear anything. What am I doing wrong? Should I be
listening only to specific frequencies?
Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks Arthur


I also recommend the 20M amateur phone band (14.150 - 14.350 MHz)
during the daytime as a good place to practice receiving SSB. First
leave SSB off and tune in a station transmitting voice. You won't be
able to understand it if it's SSB. Then when you have it tuned in AM,
turn on the SSB. You still won't be able to understand it. Now with
SSB on move the - Fine + wheel around. You want to approach the
signal from one side or the other with this wheel and slowly tune
toward the middle. As you come in from the correct side, the signal
will be high pitched but you will start to understand the speech.
Continue turing the wheel slowly until the pitch becomes normal. If
it doesn't work, move the wheel all the way to the other side and
slowly go back toward the middle again. If still no luck, try tuning
the main tuning dial up or down 1 kHz and try again. It takes some
practice but if you have a strong signal you can play around until you
tune it in.