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Post by hotrod on Oct 31, 2014 19:24:51 GMT -5
ive seen this big base online .never used this one dont know anything about it other than its BIG and has nice meters i like
not even sure its a tube radio
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Post by cbrown on Nov 3, 2014 9:48:46 GMT -5
It is nice looking, I've never used one myself but the guys that owned them really liked them.
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Post by ab5ni on Nov 4, 2014 8:15:06 GMT -5
ive seen this big base online .never used this one dont know anything about it other than its BIG and has nice meters i like not even sure its a tube radio I looked this rig up online, and I must say that it looks very professional. G.E., Motorola, and other big name corporations were going after government sales and contracts, and I'd imagine this rig had a very high dollar price. This radio was probably targeted for police departments so they could monitor channel 9, I'd imagine. Probably a very rare radio, and I'd pounce on one should it come up for auction on EBay. 73, Randy AB5NI |
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Post by Sandbagger on Nov 4, 2014 8:49:39 GMT -5
ive seen this big base online .never used this one dont know anything about it other than its BIG and has nice meters i like not even sure its a tube radio The rig you're describing sounds more like a DAK than a G.E. Superbase. The DAK had 4 HUGE meters across the top and the whole rig is designed to be 19" rack mountable. The GE Superbase was a nice radio, but the meters and such were typical CB size and function. The Superbase used a Cybernet chassis similar (but slightly enhanced) to the Lafayette (Hy-Gain, Midland etc.) SSB rigs. Coincidentally, the DAK X uses a clone copy of the Cybernet SSB chassis, but without using the RF final stage, the RF amplification handled by a pair of tubes. |
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Post by ab5ni on Nov 4, 2014 10:58:40 GMT -5
ive seen this big base online .never used this one dont know anything about it other than its BIG and has nice meters i like not even sure its a tube radio The rig you're describing sounds more like a DAK than a G.E. Superbase. The DAK had 4 HUGE meters across the top and the whole rig is designed to be 19" rack mountable. The GE Superbase was a nice radio, but the meters and such were typical CB size and function. The Superbase used a Cybernet chassis similar (but slightly enhanced) to the Lafayette (Hy-Gain, Midland etc.) SSB rigs. Coincidentally, the DAK X uses a clone copy of the Cybernet SSB chassis, but without using the RF final stage, the RF amplification handled by a pair of tubes. Sandbagger, I'd really appreciate your insight on the DAK CB rig. I've read a lot of mixed reviews. I've also read that the DAK was made by Fisher or Scott. Both of those companies built some decent tube gear in the 50's and 60's, but when the 70's came around, they both went for producing some majorly-cheap garbage. Fisher was way big into putting TONS of meters on their equipment, so I'm guessing the DAK was their toy. 73, Randy AB5NI |
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Post by Sandbagger on Nov 4, 2014 12:04:33 GMT -5
The rig you're describing sounds more like a DAK than a G.E. Superbase. The DAK had 4 HUGE meters across the top and the whole rig is designed to be 19" rack mountable. The GE Superbase was a nice radio, but the meters and such were typical CB size and function. The Superbase used a Cybernet chassis similar (but slightly enhanced) to the Lafayette (Hy-Gain, Midland etc.) SSB rigs. Coincidentally, the DAK X uses a clone copy of the Cybernet SSB chassis, but without using the RF final stage, the RF amplification handled by a pair of tubes. Sandbagger, I'd really appreciate your insight on the DAK CB rig. I've read a lot of mixed reviews. I've also read that the DAK was made by Fisher or Scott. Both of those companies built some decent tube gear in the 50's and 60's, but when the 70's came around, they both went for producing some majorly-cheap garbage. Fisher was way big into putting TONS of meters on their equipment, so I'm guessing the DAK was their toy. You are sort of in the right ballpark, but way out in left field. The DAK was made by a company called "M.H. Scott", which, as far as I know, is no relation to the H.H. Scott of tube stereo fame. But I can see how it would be easy to mistaken the two. DAK had a line of mobile rigs as well as 2 HUGE base rigs. The mobile rigs were nothing to write home about (They resemble G.E. radios), the 2 Base Radios, the DAK 9 (AM) and DAK 10 (AM/SSB) were supposedly designed with commercial applications in mind, which is why they were designed in such a huge rack mountable case. They were assembled in Korea, using a Korean copy of the Japanese Cybernet SSB chassis. The biggest problem with the DAK units is that as long as you left them bone stock, and did not allow the modulation to come close to overmodulating, you were fine. But if you were like a typical CB'er and tried to "hot rod" one of these rigs, you would find out that the modulator could not handle the strain of making that extra modulation power. Insufficient heat sinking of the audio power transistors was the primary cause. That's not to say that a good tech/engineer couldn't overcome these limitations, as obviously they can. But it will take some work to hop up the radio AND make it reliable. And when it's all said and done, the receiver performance is still no better than a Lafayette Telsat SSB 140, and equivalent transmit performance could be obtained with similar mods to other rigs. The biggest thing the DAK's had going were the 4 HUGE meters across the top. Each one was around 4" or more wide. So unless you're really blind, they could be read from across the room. And since I'm a big meter watcher, I really liked that. But other than that and the uniqueness of their design, it's not a radio I'd be jumping up and down over. |
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