Introducing myself
 

Hi guys,

I've been lurking around here for several weeks now, and it seemed like such a nice place to hang out that I finally decided to sign up. See you around!

Paula

Welcome
 

Welcome to AudioKarma and all the nuts that reside here. We are a bunch of audio crazies, who love the old stuff. I have been a member here for about 2 months and I have had a great time here. We sometimes get a little raunchy now and them, but :wtf:
like I said, a bunch of audio crazies.
Again, Welcome to AudioKarma
Eilati aka Uri

Re: Welcome
 

Hi Eilati,

Audio crazies? :nutz: Yes, that sounds like me!

Welcome Paula!
Hope you enjoy it here:)

Welcome to the nuthouse :D

CK

Paula,
Welcome to AudioKarma the only Audio site where you can state your opinion and not be condemned.
Hope you have lots of fun and chime in often

Alan

Welcome to AK Paula! :bigok:

-Dave

Welcome paula......seein how yer new here....


you get a welcome picture!!!!!!

Enjoy.....

And from up-state North America, welcome to AK, eh?

Paul

Wow ! A Grrrl who likes Tooobs 'n' stuff, & ain't afeared-or ashamed- to admit it !! Honey, I likes ya already !! Welcome to the monkeyhouse !! <grin>- Sandy G.

Welcome Paula to Audiokarma. I'm glad you found us and decided to stick around. I believe you will find us a nice crowd without all the flaming and personal attacks that you find on most other forums (we don't allow it ). Some may say we over moderate at times, but like a parent, when your kids get a little unruley, you have to set them straight. All that aside, go nuts, speak your mind, ask questions and in general , just have a fun time. :thmbsp:

Welcome
 

A big welcome from the far north Paula.

You are going to like attending the University of AudioKarma;it's free; great professors in ever audio subject and get this FREE STORAGE for your excess gear (from Professor Bigmacc).

As always l can feel the love. :D :D

Hi Paula and welcome aboard.. It's a fun group and I'm sure you will have much to offer us.

I built many many heathkits in the late 50s and early 60s so I know where you are coming from, it was a special time for those brave enough to try, heck my last heathkit was a H-89 CP/M compatiable personal computer that worked great and was fun to build in the early 80s..

Lefty

WELCOME

Welcome Aboard! :yippy: You'll fit right in!

Welcome Paula!
 

I think you have found the right group to hand out with.
Ron

Hand out with
 

Told you we were nuts, 1 day and already being harAssed,
What can I say.:dunno: :dunno: :dunno: :dunno: :dunno: :dunno: :confused: :confused: :confused:

Thanks for the warm welcome, you guys!

I feel at home already! :D

Paula

Hi Paula, welcome to the funny farm. Did I see your name in relation to copying vinyl to CD somewhere else?

Rob

Thanks. Glad to be here, merrylander :cool:

Perhaps... I have particpated in a few discussions of the subject over on Craig's List, but that was about it.

Welcome!
 

I think I recognize your name. I'm also a senior member at AntiqueRadios.com. Is that where I know you from?

Always good to have another tubie around!

Clay

Re: Welcome!
 

Nice to meet you, Clay!

No, that wouldn't have been me. I've only got back into the hobby fairly recently.

Great! I'm ready to get totally tubular! :banana:

Welcome Paula!

There's a different Paula who hangs out on the antique radio board (which is down rght now... ). I think she's in Texas, though.

Welcome Paula! Nice to see a girl in here with this obsession! I sometimes get tired to dealing with all these crabby, ugly old dudes! :D ;)

Welcome to the AK Club, Paula!
 

This is a great place to share your tube experiences with other like-minded individuals (even tube nubes like me who's never built a Heathkit...does a RadioShack's 150-in-One Electronic Projects Kit count?). Most of my valve knowledge I've either learned from my dad, and from this forum, and we're never too old to learn new things!

You'll enjoy it here!

Re: Welcome to the AK Club, Paula!
 

Hi jt1stcav,

Better a nube than a rube! :D

Thanks for the warm welcome (and all the rest of you guys, too!)

You're fortunate to have your dad to impart some of his knowledge to you. My dad was a whiz at accounting, but had little in the way of electronics know-how to share. A wonderful man though. You're right, we're never too old to learn new stuff, and I think that it's one of the things that keeps us young.

I'm enjoying it already! :banana:

Paula

I was pretty disappointed (and embarrassed) when I discovered Sandy G was a guy!

Paula being here will keep us on our toes! :D

Don't change your behavior on my account.

My grandmother was disappointed, too. She had 2 boys already- my dad & my uncle-, & when I came squalling into the world w/a stem on my apple, I became a "persona non-grata" w/her. My sister came along 4 yrs later, Dec.'61, & my gran used to buy her DOZENS of dresses. Mary Lou didn't like 'em, tho- they were generally "Little Miss Pinafore" frilly numbers, & she's always been a jeans 'n' t-shirt kind of gal. -Sandy G.

Really?

Yeah, but I'll bet I know who was/is The Boss.....<grin> -Sandy G.

Women who appreciate vacuum tubes are a rare breed!
 

Besides you, Paula, my mom is the only other woman I know that even knows what a vacuum tube is, let alone appreciates them and the equipment that uses them. Though she's not technically inclined, she does know a 5U4G from a 6K6G!

When she was a little girl in the early '40s, her folks had an old Philco AM/Shortwave/Police band console radio that she loved dearly. In the early '50s they bought their first TV and the radio sat in the basement for years, neglected and alone. When my mom married my dad in '60, her parents later cleaned house and the radio was sold, unbeknownst to her.

For years my mom was always on the lookout for another Philco console that resembled the '37 model her parents had...since my dad has a little business on the side restoring antique tube radios, finding "diamonds in the rough" that have any potential for restoration don't always make their presence known, or you stumble across them when you least expect it. After all these years, my mom discovered the same model Philco her parents owned at an antique shop in NH...it was in ratty shape, but doable (the wood cabinet cleaned up perfectly, so no finishing was ever needed, and looks nearly new)! My dad completely repaired and restored the radio last year, and now my mom proudly uses it everyday listening to an oldies station there in Hartford! It brings back those fond childhood memories when her family gathered 'round the ol' Philco listening to Amos & Andy!

Re: Women who appreciate vacuum tubes are a rare breed!
 

Hi Jim,

Thanks for the nice story about your mother and the Philco!

She sounds like a very interesting woman.

Is this the way all of us start?
 

Taking things apart around the house, or other peoples houses, for that matter, and then ,hiding them, 'cause we were unable to put them back togehter again? I know that is how it started with me, as a child. And no, my curiousity was NOT well received, at my house, either.

Of course, now, I no longer take something apart, that is familiar to me, like a modern tv set or stereo, "just to see what makes it work", I already KNOW what makes that stuff work nowdays, so it is "old hat", most of the time!!

Nowdays, on my job, if a tv does not need to be taken apart, i dont do it. too much unneeded work. ( Though I DO confess to taking apart a plasma set,sometime ago, to see inside of it, that worked ok).