advice on ham radio operation

Hi, after I make the appropriate bandpass filters, I wanted to attach the device to an antenna and try some SSB HF, maybe 10 or 20 meter band. I noticed there are no SSB examples and so I will need to write the program myself. I was contacting to ask if there is any reason that the examples use standalone binaries to interact with the fresco chip rather than writing a library for gnuradio. Did something about gnuradio make the fresco's integration with it impractical? Would I be better off proceeding by writing a gnuradio block for the Fresco sink or a standalone SSB-tx program? The novelty of demonstrating that such a cheap setup is feasible really appeals to me. Thanks, Joseph Hutchins