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SSB (Upper)

Single sideband, upper. Suppressed carrier and one sideband — spectrum-efficient voice used on HF.

Bandwidth
~2.7 kHz
Category
voice
Duty
Continuous
Best demod
USB

How it looks on a waterfall

A narrow, ragged band with no carrier line, only on one side of the tuned point.

Where you'll hear it

Ham HF above 10 MHz, marine/aeronautical HF, military voice.

See it live

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