In which war rubble did you find this transmitter?
@carl-blare I bought it more than 33 years ago. I don't think I spelled the name correctly. It was produced by a small company in Paradise California. The entire town burned down a few years ago. The transmitter is 100 milliwatts but came with a 5 watt amplifier. I'd like to get it working again. I think the main problem is the power supply stopped working.
I'm not familiar with the 5000. I used to own a Panaxis ACC100, that was FCC certified. Not sure about Industry Canada certification, but I think so.
Progressive Concepts appear to be selling the same transmitter (at least on the surface) currently, but for a lot more money (I remember picking up several for $50 total back then).
The ones I had were mono (there was a stereo version as well), and had decent sound, but not as good as the Decade MS-100 I had (so I retired them, not sure where they went).
Panaxis Stuff
Below is the infamous Panaxis FM - 10 FM Exciter/Cable Modulator and Enclosure, MacroMod Compressor and SG Stereo Generator construction and
assembly plans. And below that are pictures of the completed unit. The unit shown is one that was built by the one and only E.G Wilson. It is one
of my most prized possessions in my entire collection.
Panaxis FME 500 Exciter Module PDF format.
Panaxis SG Stereo Generator PDF format.
Panaxis FMA 5/10 Watt Amplifier Module PDF format.
Panaxis Custom Enclosure PDF format.
Panaxis MacroMod Compressor PDF format.
As seen in the above photos, there are a couple of modifications I made myself. One is the RCA connection jack pannel which allows for RCA input
instead of the terminal strip, which that is still in place. This also allows to separate the SG module output and Exciter module inputs for
external use or inputting from an external SG generator. It also has the Exciter's baseband input and standard mono input. A 19Khz and 38Khz sub
carrier sample is also at these RCA ports, and both IPA and PA sampling (-20db). I plan to use the terminal strip to wire the entire unit up for
remote control and remote metering. This unit also includes a low audio frequency boost circuit for added low frequency response, switchable in
and out by the DPST switch next to the RCA jack pannel.
The F connector near the SO-239 connector is another sample port (-20db) of the final PA output for connecting to a spectrum analyzer or
modulation monitor.
At the time the photos were taken, the unit was, and still is, fully operational and extra modifications were being made, but not completed. This
is what was used for a Special Temporary Authority authorization to transmit on 94.5Mhz for KMLD 94.5 in October of 2012.
AMA-5000 5 Watt AM Linear Amplifier construction Plans
This is the construction plans for the Panaxis AMA - 5000 Linear Amplifier. NOTE: For some stupid reason, the source site fragmented the scanned
documents into tiny jpg files in order to display it in a browser, making life just more difficult and just being plain blooming idiots. The
plans including all associated tiny images of each page are saved as html page saves with each html page's image source folder numbered 1-8 and
contained in a ZIP file. Simply unzip to a folder, leaving the sub folders intact and click on each html page to display in your browser. To
write grievances, contact the source site idiot who put this together in the manner in which they did...dumb****s!!!
AMA 5000 Construction Plans ZIP file containing individual html page saves
and each html page image folders in one zip, numbered 1-8. Use your browser in "off line" mode to properly view the construction plans in their
proper order and image placement order!! Right click the link and "save as".
All this stuff courtesy of RFBurns
It would appear based on the preceeding material that the Panaxis 5000 is a Linear RF Amplifier, but the zip file seems scrambled. Maybe you can get it de-coded. Somewhere in the maze I spotted the name Robert Crysifus who I do believe is a member of this forum, in fact I think he posted some for sale equipment recently, from his mother's tent in Colorado. Robert was also known as 'Part15 Engineer' in the days of the ALPB, when I recommended him as a site moderator, but when an ex-chairman staged a coup and kicked everybody out I lost touch with him. RFBurns was also a member there and here but was expelled by the ex-chairman as 'detrimental', and Mr. Burns went on to become the chief engineer for all Town Hall Radio stations in Wyoming. There is a different rfBurns at hobbycaster, not the same person. Plenty of gossip has passed under the bridge. By the way, I found the Panaxis references on the Wayback Machine and it no longer seems to exist in the everyday world.
@carl-blare I'm gonna check in to what you posted. The Panaxis transmitter has excellent sound. I remember the first time I turned it on ...I was amazed of the dynamic range for am . The two main transmitters I use now are a kit sold by a guy in North Carolina. ..His transmitters are very close to Panaxis sound quality. By the way there was a newsletter that came with the Panaxis transmitter... Clandestine Broadcasters. I'll have to see if still exist.