Well I'm pumping a full 5 to 6 watts running bare foot and I talked to a guy from Daytona FL today for about an hour. He said I was solid, and he could not believe the power I was running. I got her pretty well lined up now. I found I had some skin effect being amplified as part of my carrier. What I did was isolate the crystal filter and the balanced modulator into a separate grounded can and ran the carrier and audio in and the modulated signal out through coax. So taking the advice of the crew here, I put a bead on the center conductor of the coax which reduced the carrier some, then I put a small capacitance on the same point except I found I was not able to put it directly across the cable, it caused what appeared to electro-static noise, so I put it on the other side of a 2 inch wire right at the crystal filter output and acheived only carrier feeding the the crystal filter with no skin effect. This really cleaned up my signal to the point that the was carrier was to low from being over filtered through the crystal filter. So I widened the pass band slightly because it sounded like I was talking through a tin can. I still show zero output with no modulation on the output meter so I put it out there. I also went back to the PLL driver amps and fixed them to class A because I was showing something more toward class C output. This droped the gain a bit but was not much problem. I made a slight change in the mixer output filter to compensate for it.
I am trying to get some dx tonight with 5 watts...lol. Will give report back.