Shown here, all decked out for the holidays, on the cover of Radio News, December 1955, is the well equipped station of W9DW, who was undoubtedly a serious ‘phone man. The magazine contains technical details, courtesy of the Hallicrafters Company, of the commercially available single sideband (SSB) equipment which would soon change the ham bands.

The transmitter is a model HT-30, with 18 tubes (plus two rectifiers and one regulator). It starts out modulating a 50 kHz signal, which passes through three mixers to generate the desired frequencies. The receiver, while not identified in the article, appears to be an SX-100.