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SSB Directly from an AD9854 DDS     Back in mid-September, I was able to get an far eastern sourced AD9854 DDS board running using parallel mode control with a Pico 2.  I could generate cw tones, AM & PM (FM), but wasn't successful, at all, in trying to generate SSB by simultaneously AM-ing and PM-ing the board with a synthetic audio tone.  That was because I naively thought that was it - AM & PM/FM at the same time without any regard for control update timing frequency and sequencing.  I continued stumbling along with some help from Claude, but just wasn't getting anywhere or asking Claude to do the right things.  I set the project aside for a bit.  Then all the hubbub about using ESP32's as SDR's surfaced on rtl-sdr.com.  This project really piqued my interest esp32-sdr-trx .  SSB on 13cm by polar modulation!   So what I did was ask Claude to thoroughly digest the documentation and code contained in this repository, then determ...