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That is the cleanest maco i ever dun seen

I seem to remember opening up an amplifier like this a long time ago and somebody had used some kind of a tin can as a shield for one of the tubes I don't know if it was a mako but I remember seeing a tin can bolted over the deck over a tube like literally a small soup can. It might have had...

Well when I look at those antennas, it looks as though both the stud mount and the pl259 mount both rely on grounding a ring on the base of the antenna. I always had fantastic look with the Wilson rooftop mount. As I went down the rabbit hole this week looking at factory roof mounts there really...

Does anybody have any first-hand experience with them? I'd like to know specifically if I can use the Wilson mounts on sirio antennas

My plan is to get one of the foldable ones with the lever, I know they have a couple where you can adjust it by unscrewing the base, like the large plastic part and then rotating it or moving it around and tightening it back up. I'd rather have the lever. It seems as though I could stick one of...

I've been thinking about mounting a roof mount sirio antenna on one of my vehicles. I like the size of the base and I like the fact that they have their own internal matching device so they do tend to tune very well. I have not been impressed with the quality of Wilson's in recent years. All...

I wish they were still cheap..these were medical pulls. At the time they were $250/ea. Ive seen pulls pop up now and again but its certainly a drier market than it used to be.and they aren't $250 anymore.

I have limited experience with them except for the 2 tube box I built my buddy. With about 4kv plus ive seen 10kw pep for a short test. It ran beautifully at 7500. Its nearly continuous service at 4kw. He could key the mic and play music like a radio station for a very long time, we never felt...

I just looked at the prices for that transformer at digikey, and you're right it's about 400, the heath kit replacements are more expensive than that. Weird.

@Shockwave i feel like i read a very old post from you, or perhaps @nomadradio about using tube testers to test big boy tubes, like 8877, 3x3, yc156, 35b etc... obv you need to supply the filaments in an outboard manner but cant you hook up these large tubes to a hickock or similar and get a...

Yeah, this sounds like a good project for 3D printing

Yes

Id be curious if a visual inspection of the input network would show you something. Sometimes they forget to solder stuff at ameritron.

I would take a trip to a vinyl shop, they have all types of textured vinyls that you could just cut a piece and wrap the bottom of the meter in, also, a more readily available solution, would be something called gaffer's tape. You can buy in wide widths on Amazon and it looks fantastic...

I never understood why they use that lower temp red and green wire. If they used the 200c brown stuff itd be better.

Use business card stock.

Ive been wanting to add this meter to cobra radios for years

As far as the phantoms go, and I may be confusing it with a maco, wasn't there a variant that had like five knobs on the front to tune to get the thing running? For some reason I seem to remember a phantom that had five things to turn. And I never really saw a good explanation to its tune-up...

Thats not saying much.

I have 4 ready to go right now. Built with actual sockets to enable easy service in the future. 600+w pep with 75-80w pep drive. Ymmv. 120v plug in the wall. $1000 ea. Plus shipping Video explains it all