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Run 10ga BOTH positive AND negative. Fuse the positive lead near the battery with a decent quality fuse holder to minimize voltage drop. Set the radio to about 2 watts carrier. When it is turned down this low, the modulation or "peak" AM power might suffer. You can adjust the AMC a little bit to...

Just saw this, I am off to the store for a 1AM run to get an energy drink, have lots of I.T. related stuff to do tonight, I have a couple cloud / virtual servers I am setting up. When I get back, and get them imaging up with their OS, and configs, I will take a few moments to reply. EDIT: Got a...

Depends.... maul watts, swing watts, or bird watts?...Also do you have an antenna like the Predator 10K that boosts your audio by chance? All of this will determine the things needed.

The 1.6ohm is really no big deal, a bit less bias, but will hardly be noticeable on the air, and also can help stabilize the thing up. I would go back to 1000 pf that can help drop current, and also you will only notice a small drop if any in output. On the negative feedback, it all depends, I...

I smoke. But do not really enjoy it anymore. Once in a great while I do, but most of the time it is to avoid the nicotine W/D. My favorite are Marlboro Mediums (whatever they call them now) and the southern cut now and then. If I get tired of those, I will get the Winston full flavor, or lately...

The 6LB6 will work fine. Just don't hammer the snot out of them. They are ALL sweep tubes, and remember they weren't designed for transmitting, even when they were NEW! I don't know what kind of amplifier you have, but you can also get creative using a tube with a different filament voltage...

Just a thought, and certainly don't want to get into your personal business, but since you mentioned that she doesn't want an antenna up in the air, look at it this way. 1: You are doing something you enjoy AT HOME. Not out with the guys, not away from her, not out around some other group of...

Congrats on the contact, you have officially been "bitten by the bug". I remember my first SSB contact, right around the time I got my tech license, but didn't have HF privilages, I worked a station about 21 miles away. That was a big deal for me with my TRC-465 and an 8 foot whip mounted on a...

I agree with Shockwave 100%. He is right on the money. But, why modify a cool old rig like this? Why not, if you want to use it on 11 meters, just change it over for the desired frequency range, and use it or LSB or USB. You said you don't go above 40 or below 1, but you could use it on 38LSB...

Excellent, *EXCELLENT* point. It's called, switch the DC on and off, step it up, and wow... you have the required VCC. We used to do this years ago for displays using nothing more than an OP amp as an oscillator at an AF frequency, and use that as the basis for our crude switching supply. Also...

My complaint, if any, would be to ditch the para dynamics low pass filter, and put a nice drake filter in line, or if you can find a bencher low pass. Those para dynamics things are built so poorly, I would have for something in it to go bad, and before you know it, you kill your amplifier...

Not to get off topic, but it all goes back to the part that I "said" earlier, about how they will leave out things that are typical desirable (or in this case, considered necessary) as long as the end user does not know any better, and as long as it makes a watt meter move. If by chance, the...

I would be more than happy to. The only thing is, I'll sacrifice the DEI as stated earlier, after it goes "pop" I will also pop literally the case off and take a few snap shots. The only thing is, I really don't want to sacrifice a Toshiba, so if someone has a bad Toshiba 2sc2879 around maybe...

Agreed. I am in a transition at the moment, but will make a point to also show some tests as far as idle current, IMD at different frequencies both RF and AF, different VCC, current draw, I'll even sacrifice a DEI to show what happens at 14 volts into a not so great reactive load at different...

Oh, where to start? I have been wanting to write a response to this thread, (the OP, or original poster) for quite some time now, but I have debated on weather or not it would start an argument, or just be disregarded by “CB MYTH” type logic, if you can call it that. (the logic part) I mean...

Either way, you will be overdriving the crap out of either amplifier. And while AM is more "forgiving" as far as how you might sound on the air, with either amplifier, you are going to be over driving it way past compression and saturation and creating a mess of junk out to the antenna. The dave...

Why ON EARTH suggest 8950s? They are another sweep tube even MORE scarce than some of the others. They are the 12 volt filament version of the 6LF6, essentially. Go to a uncommon tube that is more available. When I say "uncommon" I mean, not commonly used up in CB amplifiers because the most...

This is an older "sweep tube" amplifier, as you may or not be aware, the tubes in this amplifier were never meant to be used as an RF amplifier. The reason they were used back then, is that they were plentiful and cheap, and did work to amplify RF, but their original application was for use in...

HAHAHAHA!!! Or, maybe it's waiting for it's Obama bucks... opps, I mean EBT CASH card needs reloaded for more scratchers, cigs and beer at 7-11. Sorry, I thought it went hand in hand with the previous post.:oops:

Older class C no bias palomar amp. Probably used the TRW transistors before they went obsolete. Give it a good 20-25 amps. (closer to 25 to keep the poor power supply from screaming under load especially if you're using a radio off of the same source) Use it on AM, it may sound OK on SSB...