{"id":336,"date":"2017-01-11T17:30:19","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T00:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.n1rwy.org\/?p=336"},"modified":"2017-01-11T17:39:49","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T00:39:49","slug":"new-project-am-6154-rebuild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.n1rwy.org\/?p=336","title":{"rendered":"New project AM-6154 rebuild!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have started another amplifier build. I guess the end of 2016 start of 2017 is that point in my ham career where I wanted to move beyond just using amplifiers to the level of one who knows how to modify and rebuild them. \u00a0My <a href=\"https:\/\/www.n1rwy.org\/?p=149\">SB200 project<\/a> was a great start for this process and I am now on to modifying an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.n1rwy.org\/AM6155\">AM-6154 amplifier<\/a> for use on the 2 meter band. \u00a0 As far as VHF amplifiers go- the AM-6154 is one of the easier to modify and a great &#8220;bang for the buck&#8221; ratio. You can come in under average &#8220;dollar per watt&#8221; price tag that is common with VHF and UHF amplifiers. The point of modifying this amplifier was so I can get back on meteor scatter and EME, also know as moon bounce. I miss chasing the &#8216;Extreme DX&#8217; of EME.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, this amplifier is not legal limit or 1000w which is the &#8220;gold standard&#8221; for moon bounce on 2 meters. \u00a0However, the AM-6154 is a great starting point with about 400w output CW or 200-250w out for JT65 or some of the newly released weak signal digital modes. \u00a0I am excited to get it on the air and actively working some of the &#8220;big&#8221; and medium sized EME stations.<\/p>\n<p>Right now I am waiting for replacement parts to arrive as I have discovered several blown components in this amp that I need to replace before I can give it my own smoke test.\u00a0 A big thanks and shout out to Paul, N1BUG for all the remote elmering from 3000 miles away.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_340\" style=\"width: 3034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.n1rwy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/img_7850.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-340\" class=\"wp-image-340 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.n1rwy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/img_7850.jpg\" alt=\"image of capacitor\" width=\"3024\" height=\"4032\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.n1rwy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/img_7850.jpg 3024w, https:\/\/www.n1rwy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/img_7850-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.n1rwy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/img_7850-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.n1rwy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/img_7850-1240x1653.jpg 1240w, https:\/\/www.n1rwy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/img_7850-508x677.jpg 508w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3024px) 100vw, 3024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-340\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anyone see anything wrong with this picture?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>More to come on this project as they arrive!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have started another amplifier build. I guess the end of 2016 start of 2017 is that point in my ham career where I wanted to move beyond just using amplifiers to the level of one who knows how to modify and rebuild them. \u00a0My SB200 project was a great start for this process and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,3,39,67,6],"tags":[77,93,92,12],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-am6154","category-general-ham","category-jt65","category-radio-restoration","category-technology","tag-am6154","tag-amplifiers","tag-eme","tag-vhf"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n1rwy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n1rwy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n1rwy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n1rwy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n1rwy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.n1rwy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344,"href":"https:\/\/www.n1rwy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions\/344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n1rwy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n1rwy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n1rwy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n1rwy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}