Well unfortunately we will never be able to talk to each other because I am located on the north side of detroit subrubs and I do not get out more than 10-12 miles locally but I get out great on DX. I only have one tram, my mint titan 2, I am not a guy with a house or garage full of radios like I had years ago. I might have to send you a watergate clip somehow to hear the great audio from this tram.
Did you notice any audio difference between the trams with the 6gk6 audio tube and the 6gm5 audio tube or you didnt get too deep into any of that? I am super curious what I am going to expect soon. I was told today my audio is so large and robust sounding and no one else has this type of full range sound on the air around here (the blackcat modulator is a big part due to all of this).
when I got my tram it would swing to around 10 watts or so, I retuned the back and I got it to 12 watts. Then when I did the cap and part upgrades and removed the ssb receive tubes I gained two or three more watts, I also upgraded the main rectifiers to 3A 1000v so I think that also helped, I never did voltage checks when I did that. I just checked radios power last night and it was swinging to 14-15 watts on a whistle, I cannot talk there, I talk around 8-12 watts which is alot higher than the 6-8 watts when I first got the radio. my final tubes are strong, my audio tube is sorta weak and my audio driver tube is sorta weak until my parts order comes in with the new tubes and upgrades. I also have 3 10watt resistors to put it in.
I am going to try a 6GM5 final output tube stage one of these days because theoretically I should gain some extra power over the 6gk6 output tube but it will need to be retune for sure and a bias resistance change. The reason I want 6GM5 tubes is because they put out full power in these circuits with the 300volts where if i went with a 6L6 I would need higher volts to get the same performance as the 6gm5 so it makes no sense.
