Keith Hosman wrote:
When using SSB there is no carrier unless you modulate
(talk).

Actually, there is no carrier, even if you do talk. The carrier is not a
result of modulation. It is created in the circuitry of the radio. It
is the sidebands that are a result of modulating the carrier with the
audio from the microphone. After modulation takes place the carrier and
one of the sidebands are removed before amplifying the remaining
sideband for transmission.

Scott

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