I have a DAK X That is at the repair shop right now. And has absolutely no RF out however it is showing modulation. The guy should have a back to me this week. I’ve had it for around 10 years. I love my Dak wouldn’t trade it for anything
38 stinking screws holding that cabinet on. Well done and very factual video. I've worked on about 20 of those and they are certainly tricky sometimes. That said, the modulation developed on that with the push pull modulator rivals the Tram D 201.
I had one to play with for a couple of weeks back when they were pretty new, and it was one of the worst radios I've ever used. I lived near the Ohio Turnpike and the receiver couldn't handle strong signals at all. It was deaf as a rock when a trucker keyed up as he passed near me. I had a tiny RS mobile and it was vastly better than the DAK. I would love to transplant the guts from a good radio into that case.
its wonderful that his old radio was restored. I alway wanted on. all I got was a robin after the it was the cobra two thousand. I"m just watching this in 2021
Top reason for high end soldering equipment like JBC and PACE is that they have the thermal response and power to operate at lower temperatures, like 50C lower, than cheap irons.
Paid $150 for mine several years ago with the matching Black Astatic D-104 desk microphone. It is pretty near MINT. I am blessed to own it. AWESOME CB in my opinion. I like it as my SSB radio over my TRAM D201A but do prefer my Browning Golden Eagle MK IVA for AM. All of them are great CB Base Radios in my opinion even when so many hate the DAK Mark X I love mine & don't care if anyone else likes it at all. {:>)
Cool stuff my old friend bless his soul had one of these Daks I remember installing a frequency counter to it for him .... wonder what ever happened to it ? Take care! 73 de ve3hip in Welland Ontario Canada 🇨🇦
Hi Mike my internal fuse just blew on my DAC 10. What is the proper type pigtail fuse value you suggest the replace it with? I’m also looking to replace the relay. Any suggestions will help. Thanks in advance. Andy
I used to have one just like it. It stopped transmitting and I couldn't find anyone to work on it on the 90s. I sat on it forever and I don't know what happened to it
At 36:26 on the far right of the screen there is two open through hole about a resister width apart, just noticed , thought I would mention it on the rare chance you missed it.
I have heard it is a clone of Cybernet but made in Korea instead of Japan. I have always wanted to get one and actually put a real Cybernet board in one! I have let many of them go buy on auction houses for cheap. Now that I want one to play with the prices has been insanely highly lately!
It can heat the solder enough to melt but you will probably end up with a dry/cold solder joint. The old solder is oxidized and contaminated after several decades.
Bet ya somebody incorparated a sold state radio into one these that were blown out to far I'd like see a build on that heck you could drop a PC 122 or a MB 8719 in there.
This is why I always try to run a clean audio radio. I'm like you, what good is a radio if you cannot even understand what another person is transmitting. If I want more power I'll just hook up my linear amp but still with not more than 100 % modulation and only using a power mic turned only about half the way up. If I cannot be understood then what's the sense?
Just subscribed and like your work. I have a dak mk ix that needs repair and would you be interested in fixing it and giving it a low dead key and want to keep it as original as I can keep it, I use old jb12, jb150,jb 76a amps as drivers and like those old tube radio tones just luv the and thanks sir really like your work
Any American made CB transceivers, Wouldn't it be nice to create a modern version with microprocessor control of the synthesizer and a modern DSP based transceiver board.
NO it would be a POS just like the CRAP they build Today.It is a far better radio as it was designed & if it had been changed then making the receiver be tubes as well would have given it far better rejection. The New radios are pure GARBAGE & drift all of the band because they are Cheap TRASH. I will keep my Old School DAK Mark X over any CB made in the last 25 years or longer.
Well clearly most of these companies did not care about the service of the unit latter in life. I doubt the people that made that board in Korea had no idea 4+ decades later people would still be using these let alone restoring them! I am sure they had to trial fit everything during development and had to know it was a PIA to work on.
Hey Mike can you work on my dak 9 the audio socks I need mines clean up and audio loud and clear and swinging to 5 bird watts forward post your info so I can send you radio
I would try contacting him by other methods. I think you can find his info on Google. Idk how often he even looks at comments on here since he retired from posting on this channel quite awhile back
I hate that so much, the people who have these loud radios that bleed all over and sound like complete crap. Not to mention they say stuff that doesn't even make sense. If you are going to transmit say something that makes sense at least and have a clean signal.
@@mikesradiorepair Great instructional video Mike! I will be purchasing a DAK 10 very soon but wondering if you can recommend a technician that works on these or do you still repair them? From the video it sounded like you prefer not to work on them any longer. Thanks for all of the advice from the video and have a good day. Phil Va
Miks radio repar my hobbies are painting pictures 🖼 and listening to shortwave and ssb I have 5 shortwave receivers iam thinking about getting my ham license
Took me from 1978 until 2017 to find one that had not been screwdrivered to death & had ZERO Mods but it was worth the long wait. Cost me $125 with the matching Black Astatic D-104 desk microphone.
Dear Mike Radio Repair,I have a Dak 6 radio and I ‘am wondering do you know what year that radio was made.Please contact me at your convenience thank you 🙏
I don't know what FCC is doing abut this people that use this illegal power on CB .What happen with 4 Whats .But there radios will quite working soon or later Mike ,and thy will end up in your shop.
If I could only own One Base CB Radio it would be my DAK Mark X.It works great on AM & SSB & is an Audio Monster on Transmit.It is not quiet as loud as a Golden eagle MK IVA on AM but it is great on SSB & the MK IVA SUCKS on SSB as do any Golden Eagle.I even prefer it over my TRAM D201A.If his friend was just a CB Operator he is NOT a SK.A SK is a Dead Amateur Radio Operator because you don't use a Key on the CB just on Amateur Radio.He is a Dead CBer not a SK.
The Term Silent Key has nothing to do with a CB Radio since a Key (CW Key) is NOT used on the CB Radio. I have been a CB Operator since 1965 & I understand that & also as a Ham Operator myself & others have an issue with someone who never was an Amateur Radio Operator being classified as a SK. CB is not,never has been,& never will be Amateur Radio & that is just a fact of life.(Wikipedia: When referring to a person, the phrase Silent Key and its abbreviation SK indicates an amateur radio operator who is deceased.) Amateur Radio operator Wikipedia) (Silent key (plural silent keys) (Wiktionary: A ham radio operator who has died.) {:>)
@@mikesradiorepair Hi Mike I'm from st Vincent I watch your videos my is Ronald love my Radio I'm Ham operator I love my CB radio I have 3 CB radio to repair 3 Ham radio to repair can you please send me your number to call you I have a Kenwood 820 Kenwood 120 and a yeasu 897 to repair please please please help me
Man, when I was a teen this was THE radio I wanted. What a gorgeous radio.
Miks radio repar you are good at restoring vintage cbs radios and vintage shortwave receivers
Still all in a all a very nice tranceiver to look at Mike and thanks again for another great video ! Appreciated!
Cool radio. The grill on the back looks like a car speaker grill from the 60s/70s.
Beautiful work sir!
wish i had one
Love the that radio as you say looks like a challenging repair. Oh man all that splatter keep your radio stock and focus on the amp and antenna lol.
That’s a fine sounding radio.
Miks radio repar your utube videos are awesome
I have a DAK X That is at the repair shop right now. And has absolutely no RF out however it is showing modulation. The guy should have a back to me this week. I’ve had it for around 10 years.
I love my Dak wouldn’t trade it for anything
38 stinking screws holding that cabinet on. Well done and very factual video. I've worked on about 20 of those and they are certainly tricky sometimes. That said, the modulation developed on that with the push pull modulator rivals the Tram D 201.
Only radio I own that is louder than my DAK Mark X is my Golden Eagle MK IVA & then my TRAM D201A is right behind the DAK.
The vent reminds me of speaker covers when i installed speaker in cars doors back in the day.
Neat looking radio.
Nice job! Glad I have my ham ticket away from all that crap on 27mhz cb. In aus we use uhf cb.
I've been looking for the device in Germany for ages, unfortunately no chance! Looks really great 👍🏻
Pretty radio, but that’s about all the good there is.
I had one to play with for a couple of weeks back when they were pretty new, and it was one of the worst radios I've ever used. I lived near the Ohio Turnpike and the receiver couldn't handle strong signals at all. It was deaf as a rock when a trucker keyed up as he passed near me. I had a tiny RS mobile and it was vastly better than the DAK. I would love to transplant the guts from a good radio into that case.
its wonderful that his old radio was restored. I alway wanted on. all I got was a robin after the it was the cobra two thousand. I"m just watching this in 2021
I bought my dak X brand new in 1978, never any issues. I never had it modded.
Top reason for high end soldering equipment like JBC and PACE is that they have the thermal response and power to operate at lower temperatures, like 50C lower, than cheap irons.
Paid $150 for mine several years ago with the matching Black Astatic D-104 desk microphone. It is pretty near MINT. I am blessed to own it. AWESOME CB in my opinion. I like it as my SSB radio over my TRAM D201A but do prefer my Browning Golden Eagle MK IVA for AM. All of them are great CB Base Radios in my opinion even when so many hate the DAK Mark X I love mine & don't care if anyone else likes it at all. {:>)
I worked on one of those in the late 1990s it was my grandma's radio I am ke5glw
Cool stuff my old friend bless his soul had one of these Daks I remember installing a frequency counter to it for him .... wonder what ever happened to it ? Take care! 73 de ve3hip in Welland Ontario Canada 🇨🇦
I believe the board is a High gain board.
When I was a kid our radios only had 6 channels all cristals
Hi Mike my internal fuse just blew on my DAC 10. What is the proper type pigtail fuse value you suggest the replace it with? I’m also looking to replace the relay. Any suggestions will help. Thanks in advance. Andy
Mike there's a place here in Kansas City called Kenwood drive sometimes if you get bored you check it out on that your GPS
Does anybody remember what price these DAK 10's sold for back in the day? Also what was the last year they were manufactured?
I used to have one just like it. It stopped transmitting and I couldn't find anyone to work on it on the 90s. I sat on it forever and I don't know what happened to it
At 36:26 on the far right of the screen there is two open through hole about a resister width apart, just noticed , thought I would mention it on the rare chance you missed it.
I have heard it is a clone of Cybernet but made in Korea instead of Japan. I have always wanted to get one and actually put a real Cybernet board in one! I have let many of them go buy on auction houses for cheap. Now that I want one to play with the prices has been insanely highly lately!
Have you ever worked on a Drake TR-6?
If you heat the feed through on the trace side, will it transfer enough heat to repair the component side?
It can heat the solder enough to melt but you will probably end up with a dry/cold solder joint. The old solder is oxidized and contaminated after several decades.
MikesRadioRepair
Guess nothing is ever easy.
the thing they needed was the frequency counter like the 2000 had
The funny thing is a mobile Motorola CM-550 or 555 base will out perform these radios by miles. They look nice but not all that great.
Bet ya somebody incorparated a sold state radio into one these that were blown out to far I'd like see a build on that heck you could drop a PC 122 or a MB 8719 in there.
This is why I always try to run a clean audio radio. I'm like you, what good is a radio if you cannot even understand what another person is transmitting. If I want more power I'll just hook up my linear amp but still with not more than 100 % modulation and only using a power mic turned only about half the way up. If I cannot be understood then what's the sense?
Just subscribed and like your work. I have a dak mk ix that needs repair and would you be interested in fixing it and giving it a low dead key and want to keep it as original as I can keep it, I use old jb12, jb150,jb 76a amps as drivers and like those old tube radio tones just luv the and thanks sir really like your work
Any American made CB transceivers, Wouldn't it be nice to create a modern version with microprocessor control of the synthesizer and a modern DSP based transceiver board.
NO it would be a POS just like the CRAP they build Today.It is a far better radio as it was designed & if it had been changed then making the receiver be tubes as well would have given it far better rejection. The New radios are pure GARBAGE & drift all of the band because they are Cheap TRASH. I will keep my Old School DAK Mark X over any CB made in the last 25 years or longer.
Miks radio repar the owner vintage m.h soctt Dak x 10
Am/ ssb hybrid tube cb radio is awesome
typical cost of what did ...re caped ?
I wish you would show the wattage output on the old radios you tune up.
If it's a CB radio it's aligned to factory standards. 4 watts AM and 12 watts SSB.
Well clearly most of these companies did not care about the service of the unit latter in life. I doubt the people that made that board in Korea had no idea 4+ decades later people would still be using these let alone restoring them! I am sure they had to trial fit everything during development and had to know it was a PIA to work on.
Hey Mike can you work on my dak 9 the audio socks I need mines clean up and audio loud and clear and swinging to 5 bird watts forward post your info so I can send you radio
I wish Mike would answer his emails.
those guy's channel six run high power. they try to out do each other. I new a guy put four alternator on his truck to power the amp.s.
Miks radio repar Iam thinking about getting a hand held CB radio with ssb
I would try contacting him by other methods. I think you can find his info on Google. Idk how often he even looks at comments on here since he retired from posting on this channel quite awhile back
I hate that so much, the people who have these loud radios that bleed all over and sound like complete crap. Not to mention they say stuff that doesn't even make sense. If you are going to transmit say something that makes sense at least and have a clean signal.
Have you sold the radio?
Would be hard for me to sell it because it's not mine. It belongs to a customer and he is not interested in selling it. He talks on it every day
@@mikesradiorepair Great instructional video Mike! I will be purchasing a DAK 10 very soon but wondering if you can recommend a technician that works on these or do you still repair them? From the video it sounded like you prefer not to work on them any longer. Thanks for all of the advice from the video and have a good day. Phil Va
Miks radio repar my hobbies are painting pictures 🖼 and listening to shortwave and ssb I have 5 shortwave receivers iam thinking about getting my ham license
Just a quick question, why do you explain everything 3 or 4 times?
Skip sounds exactly the way it did back in the 70's. The current operators must be clones or they are the result of the same education system.
I want one of these radios, but they go for more than $500.00 on Ebay. I will keep looking for one I can afford.
Took me from 1978 until 2017 to find one that had not been screwdrivered to death & had ZERO Mods but it was worth the long wait. Cost me $125 with the matching Black Astatic D-104 desk microphone.
Dear Mike Radio Repair,I have a Dak 6 radio and I ‘am wondering do you know what year that radio was made.Please contact me at your convenience thank you 🙏
I dont have the dak book I want to turn up my power on my dak 9
I call her she she doesn't like to be disturbed when she's drinking her coffee with these kind of problems
those are ballast resistors off a car.
Dak 10-4
i have one
What he's saying is it's bmw not a toyota
That's a cybernet clone board it's not a true cybernet I wonder if you put a real true cybernet board in one of them radios what it would do
Too bad it’s not surface mount...lol
I don't know what FCC is doing abut this people that use this illegal power on CB .What happen with 4 Whats .But there radios will quite working soon or later Mike ,and thy will end up in your shop.
If I could only own One Base CB Radio it would be my DAK Mark X.It works great on AM & SSB & is an Audio Monster on Transmit.It is not quiet as loud as a Golden eagle MK IVA on AM but it is great on SSB & the MK IVA SUCKS on SSB as do any Golden Eagle.I even prefer it over my TRAM D201A.If his friend was just a CB Operator he is NOT a SK.A SK is a Dead Amateur Radio Operator because you don't use a Key on the CB just on Amateur Radio.He is a Dead CBer not a SK.
Phffffft....
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The Term Silent Key has nothing to do with a CB Radio since a Key (CW Key) is NOT used on the CB Radio. I have been a CB Operator since 1965 & I understand that & also as a Ham Operator myself & others have an issue with someone who never was an Amateur Radio Operator being classified as a SK. CB is not,never has been,& never will be Amateur Radio & that is just a fact of life.(Wikipedia: When referring to a person, the phrase Silent Key and its abbreviation SK indicates an amateur radio operator who is deceased.) Amateur Radio operator Wikipedia) (Silent key (plural silent keys)
(Wiktionary: A ham radio operator who has died.) {:>)
Since the owner that died was a amateur radio operator he is a silent key.
Wrong on the Amatuer part. It is an amatuer radio that operates in the 11 meter band. Thats it in a nut shell.
@@mikesradiorepair Hi Mike I'm from st Vincent I watch your videos my is Ronald love my Radio I'm Ham operator I love my CB radio I have 3 CB radio to repair 3 Ham radio to repair can you please send me your number to call you I have a Kenwood 820 Kenwood 120 and a yeasu 897 to repair please please please help me
Channel 6 a bunch of high power stations that say nothing of any value
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Some of the worst sounding audio I’ve heard have been dark Mark IX. Looks nice, performance-not so much.