I am listening to a reprise of the Art Bell interview on QSO today made me think about your call into the show. Thought I would drop in and wave a hand! 73
Lol lol neat...I love Art Bell so much that I gained access to a very special server via FTP Password only which requires my local information to be masked to even gain access so I had to use a proxy chain to do that and guess what I accessed.....Every ART Bell Show ever transmitted over air since 1992 & every coast to coast also. My mouth dropped. I also have all his Ham Radio Related content and interviews. He is my favorite person to listen to while I am on the bench. I am so glad I got to talk to him before he passed away. That meant so much to me. Which I could have called again to talk from the other side of the spectrum as a ham but never got to lol. Thank you so much for stopping by and sharing that with me....if that is online share the link if you dont mind.
Brother, I love ur channel you really love what you do and you are a lucky man being able to work at what you love. Cool lil dog man , thank you for the great content and hopefully I can afford to send you a “cw transmitter” lol or 2. See ya on the next one.
Lol yep....hey those relays finally came in...I like the sockets that came with them. The relays seem to be the same ones that I stay away from but what I want to try is using the sockets so that if a relay goes bad someone can just pull the relay out and put another one in.....thank you so much brother!
Thanks ground control i needs to make time to watch your videos to buddy I need to badly!!!! Thank you so much again for that shout out again in your video lol I loved it..I saved it and imma start giving you some shout outs here soon in my up coming videos.
Very awsome video great amp .... awsome build ...we're u do the splitting have u ever thought about using one consistent run of typhlon wire for your input combiners to each section of 2 pills ...instead of soldering wire from the junctions ..just run one full length from the splitter to the transformers this is something I do sometimes
Oh yea, I have done it many times...ill admit it looks better. Just one of those things, I'll prepare them like that ahead of time & to be honest I hate cutting slits in the wire for the tell tell balancing resistors like that....if I can fine a easier way of doing it I may start doing it again. I need to buy a few different wire strippers and maybe I'll find some I like enough to do that.
Awesome build! I have a 2x2879c and a 4x2879c I’ve been told that when you upgrade you should turn one of your amps into a driver so what would my options be for an amp I can drive with the 2 pill? And is that something you could help me with?
@@1883GotDown thanks for the response what I’m curious about is what can take the drive of a 2x2879c I’m hitting that with a president lincoln 2+ but I’m hoping to get a Stryker from Wolfman cb shop with the variable peak/average power to give me more options. Only issue is right now all I have is a 20amp circuit for my power supply im looking to move and once I do I can put in a dedicated 50amp
That real nice. with them light up switches you can put a resistor on ground neg lead to dim them also protect from higher voltage. I wounder how much more heat them C pills make at full power? may want to try bigger output transformer and run 2 sets of output windings or larger wire AWG . maybe #10 PTFE wire to collectors. looking like them C pills want to go. with your cables run heavy wire to both sides of clamp. What I did with my 2/0 jumper cables . works great . what you do is run wire around the spring and connect to copper jaw on outher side. where the wire comes in you solder to jaw and continue on around the spring and connect to outher copper jaw. this gives heavy wire to both sides . 73's
@@bigdog911PAradio id have to go back and watch it again....I remember it being a staged 5 pill but instead of using a 2879 as a driver I used a 2290 and also didn't use a variable. I do remember that joker turned out GREAT and did very well in output!
Well if your a jack of everything then you'll be able to pull it off and stay tunned because I will be offering a class in the future of building an amp with me.... but the metals i refer to are called Metal Mica Capacitors. They are a step above a Silver Dip Mica because they are able to cool down faster and handle a bit more heat.
I use to use 4.7 ohm, 2.2ohm, or 1.8 basically anything small like that but honestly I just got out of the habit of it because I've noticed no purpose, only reason I ever used it was copying plans from my original mentor but as time goes on you learn things like places resistors don't have to go and such lol..... There isn't a resistor on the input side of this 2 pill. Only other time I would do this at present time is if I was making a home shift T Attenuator circuit.
Thank you for sending me images of those also so ill know what to look for....I think those probably after sitting out there in the elements and being probably 8 years old just gave up....they were on jumper cables.....proshate it Tech Nine!! Talk to you soon homie!
You have a 2 pill in the box to drive them the radio should not matter much. The point of having 2 pill driver in the box is so you do not need a hi drive radio to drive the box or an external driver. A 1x4 can draw as much as 168 amps average on SSB and at least 100amp average on AM. More if your reading peak current draw. That is class B biased box not C. You do not need more drive you need more current at a stable regulated power output like 13.8V to 14.5V. You probably need 200A to run that on AM and just under 300A to run it on side band at full power. I doubt mudduck has enough alternator to run that at full power. Most trucks from OEM have 140A if youhave towing package but that is hot rating not idle rating. So you have to be going at about highway rpm's to be able to see that amount of current and you will not see that for long periods without shortening the life of the alternator! You still have to run the engine computer all the control modules, headlihts, fuel pump, ignition coils etc..... He really needs to do a duel alternator mount from someone like Mechman. Most people can not run a 1x4 properly with OEM electrical system. That is why the TS 350, 400, 500 where so popular and 667 where for a long time the practical limit for most people. You had to upgrade the electrical system for Sweet 16 or Sweet 32. Just because you can build it GateKeeper does not mean the customer can run it at full power. Just like idiot customers that want insane power supply on 120V instead of going to 220/240V. I understand you give the customer what they want and hope they do not burn their house down!
Dood I have to admit you have been commenting on my channel for many many years and you have improved in your knowledge dramatically since I first started reading comments from you. Anyone that is reading this, this man knows what he is talking about. & yes id say a 300 Amp Power supply would be best because your looking at technically a straight 15 Pill Amp going by standard 2879 because every two of these is equalivent to 3 Standard ones. So my power supply I was attempting to run even though it is in a 16 pill base amp is only a 200A supply so even if my gator cables were not messed up I wouldn't have had enough current to test this bad boy the way I truly would want to. Building me a bit power supply juat moved up on the priority list after all my work is caught up. Thanks for taking the time and leaving this comment bud! Your always welcomed here. Your friend, Gatekeeper!
By the way bud...when you made that comment about the power supply, that video was 5 years plus old and I allowed that guy to talk me into to do that power supply on 110v because he said he would only be using if for a 5 pill and would change it over himself once he used it for a bigger amp but I'd never never so that again reguardless what the customer says & I havent. You'll soon see with all my base amps I've done since then that are 150A and higher are ALL 220v. Im not sure but here recently im hearing a different tone with you in my comments then I use to but there again I want you to always push me...if you ever feel like I could do better with something always let me know...this is one of the many reasons why I leave my comments on. :) Hope I haven't done anything to upset you in the resent past though brother?
Brother! Needing some help. Inhave a fatboy 8 pill. Class c bias. Standard hg 2879 pills Im about to put it in my car but didn't want to run a separate 2 pill driver. So i copied the circuit to build a 2 pill driver in the empty spots. It looks ok. I have an arco adjustable cap in between the 2 pill and 8 pill. Adjusted it for max output of the 8 pill. 1850w. So I'm comfortable with how to tune that one. I have another on the input of the two pill. I can get it down to 1 bar on the face of my stryker 955.( its turned way down to only 30 watts pep max. 1-2w dead key) 1 bar~1.1 swr on dead key seeing 300w dead key after the amp. But when i modulate the swr goes up to 2.1. is this normal? I changed the input transformer from 100pf all the way up to 390pf didn't change anything. I have 3 wraps on the transformers. Same as the rest if the box. Should i try 1 less turns? Not sure if this is ok or not. Seems like you guys are able to get next to no reflect when modulating. What do i need to adjust to get it flat
Well I can say to much over a comment about tuning...I like to control who sees that type of knowledge but one thing if your going to get into tuning you DO NOT want to trust your radio as the says all to be all of reading reflect coming back to you. You need to have a physical meter. Tune it while you audio. Congrats on getting the in-between tune done with 1 trimmer that van be tuff bud... but get you a meter between ur amp and radio even if you have to take a reg meter like dosy and hook it up backwards between radio and amp so you can truly see your input reflect.
@@1883GotDown I understand so if what I say is too much info feel free to remove my comment. I got it figured out. I removed one turn on the input transformer of the two pill. Might be because I'm using slightly smaller wire than Fatboy on the transforms or it's because it's a two pill vs a 4 pill section that is being tuned like the rest of the box is set up. I agree to get a real meter in between I just don't have slugs small enough yet to read that small. But all I had to use was the radio meters. I used two different radios they both did it. Stryker 955 and my cobra 29. I put both of those radios onto my texas star 2 pill and the radio SWR meters were good and flat. So I knew something had to be wrong. Then I retuned the input again with the arco and got a 1.1 on dead key and 1.4 on modulation with both radios. I replaced all the acro's with mica once I had everything set. I removed the acro's and checked how many pf they were set at and switched them out with equivalent micas. Things bangin with 1850 pep 500 average with my Stryker and 1600 pep 850 average with my cobra 29. Happy happy happy. Edit. After watching even more carefully it appears the turns is exactly what u have going on in this all metal box. But also looks like I need to remove one turn from the output transformer on the two pill as well
Me too. I really really want a gatekeeper build. I would love to have you build a 4 x 16 all metal clad set up as a base station amp. Straight 220 volt .. I live down here in the swamps so i need the juice to reach out my worn out 4 pill aint gettin done. I do love this 2x8 and the spacing between 2 pill sectons. That box x2 would be a monster.
You can text me but juat to let you know ahead of time im not taking in work currently but will be in a few months. 678 557 4846 But I've always wanted to build a 4x16 so I will defiantly put you on the list of when I start taking in work again soon. That would be a sweet amp and do it in the 48 pill cabinet or the 64 pill cabinet would be cool if you had the room.
I see what your talking about now lol..... Take it back to the 12 banger ported come on.....Copy and paste...looks like he did man lol didn't even notice that till you mentioned it. 😂
Would love to hear more from ya man... you could at least be a commentator on my comments giving your views etc... there is still a place for ya out here man ...here within the next 6 months I'm taking this plane off ground brother!
Clearly mudduck does not know anything about electronics and is just keying in on buzz words. Metal clads are only better in situations where exposed to a lot of heat. The trick or more important thing is to not use cheap chinese ceramics and chinese mica's. It is almost always the Chinese ceramics that lose their value quickly and cause issues.
There is not one part of this sentence I disagree with...lol no offense Muddick I mean mudduck...he wants what he wants I begged him to let me a straight 8...but no....he is having a weird oscillation issue now on a certain radio bit not others.... now he is wishing he would have listen to me lol.
I agreed with you with the metals, you'll hear me say the same thing you just did in many of my videos here I used all metals....it is just a packaged deal I started doing many years ago....over kill especially in that area defiantly isn't a bad thing for sure....needed in areas...of course not...I agree.
I am listening to a reprise of the Art Bell interview on QSO today made me think about your call into the show. Thought I would drop in and wave a hand! 73
Lol lol neat...I love Art Bell so much that I gained access to a very special server via FTP Password only which requires my local information to be masked to even gain access so I had to use a proxy chain to do that and guess what I accessed.....Every ART Bell Show ever transmitted over air since 1992 & every coast to coast also. My mouth dropped. I also have all his Ham Radio Related content and interviews. He is my favorite person to listen to while I am on the bench. I am so glad I got to talk to him before he passed away. That meant so much to me. Which I could have called again to talk from the other side of the spectrum as a ham but never got to lol. Thank you so much for stopping by and sharing that with me....if that is online share the link if you dont mind.
@@1883GotDown if you look up "QSO Today" you will find Art Bell's interview a few shows down. You might find Eric's podcast interesting as well.
Brother, I love ur channel you really love what you do and you are a lucky man being able to work at what you love. Cool lil dog man , thank you for the great content and hopefully I can afford to send you a “cw transmitter” lol or 2. See ya on the next one.
Once I start taking in work I hope yo be able to work on a nice cw transmitter or 2 lol.... I love Constant Wave Transmitters :)
And thank you for the kind comments also!
Finally get to meet Jack and the master "PAINTER"
Lol yep....hey those relays finally came in...I like the sockets that came with them. The relays seem to be the same ones that I stay away from but what I want to try is using the sockets so that if a relay goes bad someone can just pull the relay out and put another one in.....thank you so much brother!
@@1883GotDown your very welcome... Glad u like the sockets.... 73rds brah
Dude that’s a work of art. I hope to get in line when you can start taking new work again
You will buddy....did you get to see that this is my amp now bro...Im over excited still doesn't feel real lol...i plan to run it in the mobile.
@@1883GotDown yeah I thought this was the same one that he gave you. That’s awesome man. I know you’re gonna have fun with it lol
The Beast looks great, good job GK.
Thank you brother...yeh it was a fun build to do that is for sure.
Another awesome build. 73
Thanks ground control i needs to make time to watch your videos to buddy I need to badly!!!! Thank you so much again for that shout out again in your video lol I loved it..I saved it and imma start giving you some shout outs here soon in my up coming videos.
Very awsome video great amp .... awsome build ...we're u do the splitting have u ever thought about using one consistent run of typhlon wire for your input combiners to each section of 2 pills ...instead of soldering wire from the junctions ..just run one full length from the splitter to the transformers this is something I do sometimes
Oh yea, I have done it many times...ill admit it looks better. Just one of those things, I'll prepare them like that ahead of time & to be honest I hate cutting slits in the wire for the tell tell balancing resistors like that....if I can fine a easier way of doing it I may start doing it again. I need to buy a few different wire strippers and maybe I'll find some I like enough to do that.
very beautiful amp , keep up greatwork
Thank you brother
Awesome build! I have a 2x2879c and a 4x2879c I’ve been told that when you upgrade you should turn one of your amps into a driver so what would my options be for an amp I can drive with the 2 pill? And is that something you could help me with?
Id use a bigger radio or any 1 pill will do fine. You can look at that 2x2879C like a straight 3 x 2879 lol. You can add any ? You want bud.
@@1883GotDown thanks for the response what I’m curious about is what can take the drive of a 2x2879c I’m hitting that with a president lincoln 2+ but I’m hoping to get a Stryker from Wolfman cb shop with the variable peak/average power to give me more options. Only issue is right now all I have is a 20amp circuit for my power supply im looking to move and once I do I can put in a dedicated 50amp
That real nice. with them light up switches you can put a resistor on ground neg lead to dim them also protect from higher voltage. I wounder how much more heat them C pills make at full power? may want to try bigger output transformer and run 2 sets of output windings or larger wire AWG . maybe #10 PTFE wire to collectors. looking like them C pills want to go. with your cables run heavy wire to both sides of clamp. What I did with my 2/0 jumper cables . works great . what you do is run wire around the spring and connect to copper jaw on outher side. where the wire comes in you solder to jaw and continue on around the spring and connect to outher copper jaw. this gives heavy wire to both sides . 73's
Thank you, I am actually playing around with that idea nowa
Best part of this video is JACK.
Well...that I can't argue with you on that lol lol!
Looks nice and clean.
Thanks bud!
Sneak peekin!😂
Lol
What's the best way to get in touch with you Mr. Gatekeeper?
Best way is via text message. Shoot me a text 678 557 4846 I am hoping this is the snow man wanting some transistors lol that would be cool.
I am looking forward to my build ( CRUNCH Texas)
I am looking forward to building it brother
Hey, Marty!
U know him? Ke4mlh?
Boy I could imagine,doing my design I like with the 4/6 c's
Explain in more detail 🤔
@@1883GotDown how my 5 pill 💊 was
@@bigdog911PAradio id have to go back and watch it again....I remember it being a staged 5 pill but instead of using a 2879 as a driver I used a 2290 and also didn't use a variable. I do remember that joker turned out GREAT and did very well in output!
Won't you just tell me you've got it up 073 that's me that's where it came from come on I'm not just a local.....
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
What are metals?, i mean are you making capacitors out of em? i dont know the lingo but I've always wanted to make my own linear amp
Well if your a jack of everything then you'll be able to pull it off and stay tunned because I will be offering a class in the future of building an amp with me.... but the metals i refer to are called Metal Mica Capacitors. They are a step above a Silver Dip Mica because they are able to cool down faster and handle a bit more heat.
@@1883GotDown Ha well, i guessed right then, look forward to it. everything.. Master of nothing.😅
Hello brother i see the 100ohm on the variable what ohm size did you use on the input side of the 2 pill? Thanks. Another GREAT Build!
I use to use 4.7 ohm, 2.2ohm, or 1.8 basically anything small like that but honestly I just got out of the habit of it because I've noticed no purpose, only reason I ever used it was copying plans from my original mentor but as time goes on you learn things like places resistors don't have to go and such lol.....
There isn't a resistor on the input side of this 2 pill.
Only other time I would do this at present time is if I was making a home shift T Attenuator circuit.
Go Auto Zone or O Riley's and get son heavy duty battery cable clamps and they will work I use them everyday.
Thank you for sending me images of those also so ill know what to look for....I think those probably after sitting out there in the elements and being probably 8 years old just gave up....they were on jumper cables.....proshate it Tech Nine!! Talk to you soon homie!
hey Gatekeeper have you ever herd of a Silver Bullet 3kw supposed to be by Texas star
Didn't I respond to this already? Maybe it didn't go through but not a silver bullet but I've heard of a bullet 3kw or 3kw bulllet.
You have a 2 pill in the box to drive them the radio should not matter much. The point of having 2 pill driver in the box is so you do not need a hi drive radio to drive the box or an external driver.
A 1x4 can draw as much as 168 amps average on SSB and at least 100amp average on AM. More if your reading peak current draw. That is class B biased box not C. You do not need more drive you need more current at a stable regulated power output like 13.8V to 14.5V. You probably need 200A to run that on AM and just under 300A to run it on side band at full power.
I doubt mudduck has enough alternator to run that at full power. Most trucks from OEM have 140A if youhave towing package but that is hot rating not idle rating. So you have to be going at about highway rpm's to be able to see that amount of current and you will not see that for long periods without shortening the life of the alternator! You still have to run the engine computer all the control modules, headlihts, fuel pump, ignition coils etc.....
He really needs to do a duel alternator mount from someone like Mechman.
Most people can not run a 1x4 properly with OEM electrical system. That is why the TS 350, 400, 500 where so popular and 667 where for a long time the practical limit for most people. You had to upgrade the electrical system for Sweet 16 or Sweet 32. Just because you can build it GateKeeper does not mean the customer can run it at full power.
Just like idiot customers that want insane power supply on 120V instead of going to 220/240V. I understand you give the customer what they want and hope they do not burn their house down!
Dood I have to admit you have been commenting on my channel for many many years and you have improved in your knowledge dramatically since I first started reading comments from you. Anyone that is reading this, this man knows what he is talking about. & yes id say a 300 Amp Power supply would be best because your looking at technically a straight 15 Pill Amp going by standard 2879 because every two of these is equalivent to 3 Standard ones. So my power supply I was attempting to run even though it is in a 16 pill base amp is only a 200A supply so even if my gator cables were not messed up I wouldn't have had enough current to test this bad boy the way I truly would want to.
Building me a bit power supply juat moved up on the priority list after all my work is caught up.
Thanks for taking the time and leaving this comment bud! Your always welcomed here. Your friend, Gatekeeper!
By the way bud...when you made that comment about the power supply, that video was 5 years plus old and I allowed that guy to talk me into to do that power supply on 110v because he said he would only be using if for a 5 pill and would change it over himself once he used it for a bigger amp but I'd never never so that again reguardless what the customer says & I havent. You'll soon see with all my base amps I've done since then that are 150A and higher are ALL 220v. Im not sure but here recently im hearing a different tone with you in my comments then I use to but there again I want you to always push me...if you ever feel like I could do better with something always let me know...this is one of the many reasons why I leave my comments on. :) Hope I haven't done anything to upset you in the resent past though brother?
Brother!
Needing some help.
Inhave a fatboy 8 pill. Class c bias. Standard hg 2879 pills
Im about to put it in my car but didn't want to run a separate 2 pill driver. So i copied the circuit to build a 2 pill driver in the empty spots. It looks ok. I have an arco adjustable cap in between the 2 pill and 8 pill. Adjusted it for max output of the 8 pill. 1850w. So I'm comfortable with how to tune that one. I have another on the input of the two pill. I can get it down to 1 bar on the face of my stryker 955.( its turned way down to only 30 watts pep max. 1-2w dead key) 1 bar~1.1 swr on dead key seeing 300w dead key after the amp. But when i modulate the swr goes up to 2.1. is this normal? I changed the input transformer from 100pf all the way up to 390pf didn't change anything. I have 3 wraps on the transformers. Same as the rest if the box. Should i try 1 less turns? Not sure if this is ok or not. Seems like you guys are able to get next to no reflect when modulating. What do i need to adjust to get it flat
Well I can say to much over a comment about tuning...I like to control who sees that type of knowledge but one thing if your going to get into tuning you DO NOT want to trust your radio as the says all to be all of reading reflect coming back to you. You need to have a physical meter. Tune it while you audio. Congrats on getting the in-between tune done with 1 trimmer that van be tuff bud... but get you a meter between ur amp and radio even if you have to take a reg meter like dosy and hook it up backwards between radio and amp so you can truly see your input reflect.
@@1883GotDown I understand so if what I say is too much info feel free to remove my comment. I got it figured out. I removed one turn on the input transformer of the two pill. Might be because I'm using slightly smaller wire than Fatboy on the transforms or it's because it's a two pill vs a 4 pill section that is being tuned like the rest of the box is set up. I agree to get a real meter in between I just don't have slugs small enough yet to read that small. But all I had to use was the radio meters. I used two different radios they both did it. Stryker 955 and my cobra 29. I put both of those radios onto my texas star 2 pill and the radio SWR meters were good and flat. So I knew something had to be wrong. Then I retuned the input again with the arco and got a 1.1 on dead key and 1.4 on modulation with both radios. I replaced all the acro's with mica once I had everything set. I removed the acro's and checked how many pf they were set at and switched them out with equivalent micas. Things bangin with 1850 pep 500 average with my Stryker and 1600 pep 850 average with my cobra 29. Happy happy happy.
Edit. After watching even more carefully it appears the turns is exactly what u have going on in this all metal box.
But also looks like I need to remove one turn from the output transformer on the two pill as well
how can I get in contact with you ???
Me too.
I really really want a gatekeeper build.
I would love to have you build a 4 x 16 all metal clad set up as a base station amp.
Straight 220 volt ..
I live down here in the swamps so i need the juice to reach out my worn out 4 pill aint gettin done.
I do love this 2x8 and the spacing between 2 pill sectons.
That box x2 would be a monster.
You can text me but juat to let you know ahead of time im not taking in work currently but will be in a few months. 678 557 4846
You can text me but juat to let you know ahead of time im not taking in work currently but will be in a few months. 678 557 4846
But I've always wanted to build a 4x16 so I will defiantly put you on the list of when I start taking in work again soon. That would be a sweet amp and do it in the 48 pill cabinet or the 64 pill cabinet would be cool if you had the room.
I can see he made you do 073 hot bus for that..... meow meow... That's like some copy paste... And then print..... Lol as I'm texting from h***.....
lol about to go back and look and see how I did the hot bus 🚌 and see whatcha talking about homie :)
I see what your talking about now lol..... Take it back to the 12 banger ported come on.....Copy and paste...looks like he did man lol didn't even notice that till you mentioned it. 😂
Would love to hear more from ya man... you could at least be a commentator on my comments giving your views etc... there is still a place for ya out here man
...here within the next 6 months I'm taking this plane off ground brother!
You still on 38 lsb
I will be a soon as I get back on the air....I was using a dipole for another freq
Clearly mudduck does not know anything about electronics and is just keying in on buzz words. Metal clads are only better in situations where exposed to a lot of heat. The trick or more important thing is to not use cheap chinese ceramics and chinese mica's. It is almost always the Chinese ceramics that lose their value quickly and cause issues.
There is not one part of this sentence I disagree with...lol no offense Muddick I mean mudduck...he wants what he wants I begged him to let me a straight 8...but no....he is having a weird oscillation issue now on a certain radio bit not others.... now he is wishing he would have listen to me lol.
I agreed with you with the metals, you'll hear me say the same thing you just did in many of my videos here I used all metals....it is just a packaged deal I started doing many years ago....over kill especially in that area defiantly isn't a bad thing for sure....needed in areas...of course not...I agree.