Ever since the Icom IC-R1 first came out 25 years ago, people had asked "could it receive SSB?" And the answer was no. Until now.
Icom IC R1 SSB demo 3 - YouTube
(there's other earlier demos too if you want to look for them)
Its long been a dream of mine to add SSB to the IC-R1, and have finally gotten around to modifying it to fit a BFO internally, which gets switched on by inserting a shorting plug into the 'line out' socket on the IC-R1. It's not perfect, the filters are a bit wide, and the smallest tuning steps of 0.5kHz mean that sometimes you won't get quite close enough to being 'spot on tune' - but as this video shows, it can work quite well.
The ham station received in the video is from Spain, received in Australia, with just the stock FA-4B Icom rubber duck antenna.
A while ago, I wrote a combined modification / review for a local scanning website, and this will soon be updated with the SSB mod for the Icom IC-R1; will post the URL here when that is ready.
Icom IC R1 SSB demo 3 - YouTube
(there's other earlier demos too if you want to look for them)
Its long been a dream of mine to add SSB to the IC-R1, and have finally gotten around to modifying it to fit a BFO internally, which gets switched on by inserting a shorting plug into the 'line out' socket on the IC-R1. It's not perfect, the filters are a bit wide, and the smallest tuning steps of 0.5kHz mean that sometimes you won't get quite close enough to being 'spot on tune' - but as this video shows, it can work quite well.
The ham station received in the video is from Spain, received in Australia, with just the stock FA-4B Icom rubber duck antenna.
A while ago, I wrote a combined modification / review for a local scanning website, and this will soon be updated with the SSB mod for the Icom IC-R1; will post the URL here when that is ready.
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