WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.840 --> 00:00:04.679 Thank you for choosing to download the Ham Radio two point zero audio podcast rip. 2 00:00:05.280 --> 00:00:09.320 This is the audio taken out of a video or a livestream I did 3 00:00:09.679 --> 00:00:13.279 recently. You can catch all my videos on YouTube Ham Radio two point zero 4 00:00:13.640 --> 00:00:18.399 and catch us live every Sunday night at seven pm Central Standard Time for a 5 00:00:18.399 --> 00:00:22.519 different topic each week. Thank you for the support, and thank you for 6 00:00:22.600 --> 00:00:37.159 being a member of the community. Rig Expert has a new product, a 7 00:00:37.240 --> 00:00:42.560 shack Master thirty five AM power supply. This is a new product in a 8 00:00:42.640 --> 00:00:46.759 line of products that rig Expert is coming out for their shack Master series of 9 00:00:46.799 --> 00:00:53.240 stuff for Ham Radio. Let's take a look, all right, going right 10 00:00:53.320 --> 00:00:56.280 into it. I haven't done an unboxing a long time. This is not 11 00:00:56.320 --> 00:00:58.920 going to be really an unboxing, but I did want to show you this 12 00:00:59.359 --> 00:01:02.759 because this is package very well. This is the instruction manual. It comes 13 00:01:02.799 --> 00:01:06.480 with this little card here that has a QR code on it that you can 14 00:01:06.879 --> 00:01:10.599 scan that and go get go register the product for the warranty and whatnot. 15 00:01:10.719 --> 00:01:14.480 This is as a pretty thick card right there, so that's kind of neat. 16 00:01:14.519 --> 00:01:17.319 Looks like a credit card, but it's not. Okay, good instruction 17 00:01:17.400 --> 00:01:22.439 manual here, nice color nice glossy, glossy pages here, very well put 18 00:01:22.480 --> 00:01:25.640 together, I thought, so that was good. And this is the box. 19 00:01:25.640 --> 00:01:32.000 It's kind of tall here. This flap here magnetically attaches to the side 20 00:01:32.000 --> 00:01:34.519 there. So they put some time into the box. It's not a big 21 00:01:34.519 --> 00:01:37.040 deal. You're gonna probably get the box, take the power supply out through 22 00:01:37.079 --> 00:01:38.719 the box away, or put it on a shelf in a closet somewhere, 23 00:01:40.159 --> 00:01:42.040 and that's fine, But I just wanted to show how they took the time 24 00:01:42.040 --> 00:01:46.079 out to actually do this. All right, that's the fun of the front 25 00:01:46.120 --> 00:01:48.120 of the shack Master. We're gonna phire it up here in a second. 26 00:01:48.280 --> 00:01:52.920 Obviously, two USBA ports, two USBC ports, and two Anderson powerpole ports 27 00:01:53.040 --> 00:01:55.560 right there in the front. It's got this touch screen that's in the front 28 00:01:55.560 --> 00:01:57.640 here, and then in the back it's got an off on switch, your 29 00:01:57.680 --> 00:02:04.359 standard power cable can like computer cable, monitor cable right there, two more 30 00:02:04.400 --> 00:02:07.879 powerful ports, plus a USBC port in the back that's kind of neat, 31 00:02:07.879 --> 00:02:12.800 and then your standard positive and negative terminal, so plenty of options for setting 32 00:02:12.840 --> 00:02:16.280 up all of the things underneath that. It does come with its own power 33 00:02:16.360 --> 00:02:22.000 cable. That's fine. This is a Oh that's just set it like I 34 00:02:22.039 --> 00:02:23.639 guess if you wanted to sit it on its side or something, that's fine. 35 00:02:23.680 --> 00:02:28.039 Okay, it comes with some feet if you want to put it face 36 00:02:28.120 --> 00:02:31.560 down on the desktop. And then it comes with the USB C to a 37 00:02:31.719 --> 00:02:36.400 cable or nice red cable right there. So let's connect all this up and 38 00:02:36.400 --> 00:02:38.520 see what it looks like. Here it is now this little side thing here 39 00:02:38.919 --> 00:02:42.599 is so you could stand it on its side on a desk like that if 40 00:02:42.759 --> 00:02:46.280 for some reason you were space restricted or just wanted it to stand sideways for 41 00:02:46.319 --> 00:02:50.479 whatever reason, there's that option available for you. I wish it had two 42 00:02:50.479 --> 00:02:52.960 of them, you could put one on each side, but just comes with 43 00:02:53.000 --> 00:02:54.719 the one. Set it up like that, Get a little bit better look 44 00:02:54.759 --> 00:02:59.879 at it. So turn it on, and like I said, this is 45 00:03:00.680 --> 00:03:02.680 sixteen twenty six. I guess that's probably the time, or it thinks it 46 00:03:02.759 --> 00:03:06.800 is. And that's about six hours ahead of where I am right now. 47 00:03:06.879 --> 00:03:08.400 No, it's about eight hours ahead of where I am right now. But 48 00:03:09.159 --> 00:03:15.120 it does have this touch screen supposedly swipe to switch on. Oh okay, 49 00:03:15.159 --> 00:03:20.000 I didn't wait long enough. Ah, swipe to switch on. There we 50 00:03:20.039 --> 00:03:23.479 go. Shack Master PROB five hundred. Here we go. Okay, that's 51 00:03:23.479 --> 00:03:25.560 the normal screen right there. Zero watts, zero po one zero amps in 52 00:03:25.639 --> 00:03:31.280 eighty four degrees. Swipe right. It doesn't do anything. Touch screen to 53 00:03:31.319 --> 00:03:34.840 turn it off and on, or at least turn the screen off and on. 54 00:03:34.919 --> 00:03:38.080 Let's plug something up to it. This is my BT zero one remote 55 00:03:38.080 --> 00:03:43.680 Bluetooth control for my any tone D five seven eight radio or any any any 56 00:03:43.719 --> 00:03:47.159 tone radio. Really, it is USBC chargeable. Gotta remember where the port 57 00:03:47.280 --> 00:03:51.240 is. I'm gonna use this in a while, so it's probably dead, 58 00:03:51.360 --> 00:03:53.039 so this is probably gonna be a good test right here. Okay, after 59 00:03:53.080 --> 00:03:55.719 plugging that in here, it changed to two watts and four amps. I've 60 00:03:55.719 --> 00:04:00.800 got the charging indicator light on that there. It goes right there. See 61 00:04:00.800 --> 00:04:06.000 if it does anything now, Oh yeah, okay, thirteen point eight bolts. 62 00:04:08.159 --> 00:04:09.919 Swipe to switch off. No, I don't want to do that, 63 00:04:11.800 --> 00:04:18.319 so swiping left and right changes things. Okay, there it is. I 64 00:04:18.319 --> 00:04:20.879 thought it was had an up and down also, and I couldn't get it 65 00:04:20.920 --> 00:04:24.839 to do the up and down thing. But it started working after you plugged 66 00:04:24.839 --> 00:04:27.319 it, after you powered it up. So power thirteen point eight volts. 67 00:04:27.360 --> 00:04:30.639 That's the power that is available to the power supply right now, the power 68 00:04:30.680 --> 00:04:36.319 is currently thirteen point eight bolts is available to output to various places. Seems 69 00:04:36.319 --> 00:04:40.560 to be kind of finicky. Yeah, I did I have this. I 70 00:04:40.600 --> 00:04:43.160 have the plastic on the screen. That may be one reason why. So 71 00:04:43.759 --> 00:04:46.480 I didn't want to take the plastic off the screen yet because I'm not sure 72 00:04:46.519 --> 00:04:48.439 I'm gonna keep This is a loaner from gigabarts, by the way, so 73 00:04:48.519 --> 00:04:51.720 I want to try to take as careful of it as I can. So 74 00:04:51.800 --> 00:04:57.199 thirteen point eight volts. OX is four point nine volts at zero point Okay, 75 00:04:57.240 --> 00:05:00.319 So that means this over here, so's USB is typically volts and right 76 00:05:00.319 --> 00:05:03.519 now it's out putting four point nine volts at zero point four to three amps. 77 00:05:03.879 --> 00:05:06.560 So it's charging this device here that I have in my hand, this 78 00:05:06.839 --> 00:05:14.319 this guy right here, Okay, that's the USB. There we go. 79 00:05:14.720 --> 00:05:16.879 It seems to kind of go to sleep also when you don't touch it for 80 00:05:16.879 --> 00:05:21.800 a few minutes, So there we go. Okay. Yeah, and you 81 00:05:21.800 --> 00:05:26.439 can scroll through the whole thing both ways, back and forth. It does 82 00:05:26.480 --> 00:05:29.240 work much better without the plastic on the screen. So yeah, once you 83 00:05:29.240 --> 00:05:30.240 buy one of these, you're gonna want to take the plastic off the screen 84 00:05:30.240 --> 00:05:33.759 anyway, I just was doing it, so site one twenty seven volts at 85 00:05:34.000 --> 00:05:36.959 one hundred and twenty seven volt, Oh, that's probably okay. So one 86 00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:41.480 hundred and twenty six hundred and twenty seven volt at sixty hertz, that's probably 87 00:05:41.560 --> 00:05:45.920 my incoming power. So if you're running this on like a generator in the 88 00:05:45.920 --> 00:05:48.519 field or something like that to power your radios, it seems kind of redundant 89 00:05:48.519 --> 00:05:54.199 to go from generator to power supply to twelve volts in the field just plugging 90 00:05:54.199 --> 00:05:57.879 a bioino, but you may whatever. It's totally doable. It's totally doable. 91 00:05:57.920 --> 00:06:00.720 So you've got you've got four power pole poor it's on this thing, 92 00:06:00.240 --> 00:06:03.399 and you've got a bunch of USB ports on it, so it could power 93 00:06:03.439 --> 00:06:06.040 all of the things. It might be easier to carry this than it is 94 00:06:06.040 --> 00:06:09.000 to carry a bio winno for this, that and the other, or a 95 00:06:09.000 --> 00:06:12.319 big honking battery box. So kind of depend on what you're trying to do. 96 00:06:12.519 --> 00:06:14.959 But that's the power coming in right now, one hundred twenty seven volts 97 00:06:14.959 --> 00:06:17.319 from my AC my alternating current in my house or the shack here. It's 98 00:06:17.360 --> 00:06:21.279 at eighty six degrees sixty hertz. That's normal two watts and zero point four 99 00:06:21.319 --> 00:06:25.759 amps is what's going out of the thing right now, and it's got those 100 00:06:25.800 --> 00:06:27.759 menus there, and then if I want to switch it off, I can 101 00:06:27.759 --> 00:06:31.199 do it like that, So pretty cool. The test will be And I 102 00:06:31.240 --> 00:06:34.519 don't know how long I'm gonna get to keep this because I'm not obviously I'm 103 00:06:34.519 --> 00:06:38.160 not in the field right now, so I'm not sure how long I'll get 104 00:06:38.199 --> 00:06:40.040 to keep this. But the test will be to take it out to the 105 00:06:40.079 --> 00:06:45.279 field and see if any RFI emits from it when you're in a low noise 106 00:06:45.360 --> 00:06:47.279 environment. Now, i turned the radio on a minute ago, and I've 107 00:06:47.279 --> 00:06:50.439 got some RIFI right now from other various places. The air condistr's running, 108 00:06:50.439 --> 00:06:54.079 you might be able to hear that. So not a good test right here 109 00:06:54.079 --> 00:06:57.680 for RIFI. I need to get to someplace quiet because in the field is 110 00:06:57.720 --> 00:06:59.920 where you really care about that sort of thing. Well, you care about 111 00:06:59.920 --> 00:07:02.720 it the shack too, but if you have other variables in the shack, 112 00:07:02.759 --> 00:07:06.439 then you have to account for that as well. So pretty good line up 113 00:07:06.600 --> 00:07:11.600 from rig expert. The shack Master power supply. They call it the five 114 00:07:11.680 --> 00:07:15.360 hundred whytt If you do a little bit of math, if you divide five 115 00:07:15.439 --> 00:07:17.480 hundred wats into thirteen point eight volts, it comes up with about thirty six 116 00:07:17.519 --> 00:07:20.759 amps, little over thirty six amps, and they're calling it a thirty five 117 00:07:20.800 --> 00:07:24.560 amp power supply, so they're planning to over deliver to you. Hey, 118 00:07:24.560 --> 00:07:27.279 that's great. I love it. I would rather that come up at thirty 119 00:07:27.279 --> 00:07:30.759 six amps than like thirty two amps and be advertised as a thirty five amps. 120 00:07:30.800 --> 00:07:33.160 So great, great, excellent from all intensive purposes. Everything I see 121 00:07:33.160 --> 00:07:35.079 about this, it's going to be a great unit. Check the link in 122 00:07:35.120 --> 00:07:36.920 the description below. Thanks for watching today.