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09-10-2020, 08:58 PM
Hello fellow Forum Members,
My name is Rob. I love designing and building valve amplifiers as I assume that most everyone here does.
I have a small company that caters to a small group of musicians in NY, NJ, PA, and MD. I have a degree in electrical
engineering but my valve knowledge and experience does not come from my education but from investigating and using valve circuits since approximately 1970 as a HAM Radio operator and of course reading TUT (I own all of them) and for the past 18 months correspondence with KOC.
I worked in aerospace industry in the United States for 3 different DOD
contractors, mainly embedded work for the last 20 years of my career, writing millions of lines of code, mainly in C and
C++. Before the embedded stuff, I was involved mainly in the early development of hybrids. Before I obtained my degree
I was an electronics tech so I have a fair amount of diagnosis and repair experience.
With all that said; this is a deep subject, which is not just tech but also has an element of an art form. I look forward to
learning from everyone here and hopefully, I can contribute to other members knowledge and help out with projects, theory,
construction etc. One last thing, I was also a machinist for about 15 years, mainly building engines, but also jobber stuff.
One might say, how can you have done all this, well the simple answer is, I am in my 7th decade on this planet (and maybe
more on another). Humor, is also a very important part of life, never take it to serious, as you won't enjoy it.
One thing I noticed reading the forum before I joined was the civility practiced here. I have left others because of the lack of
this aspect, so I thank everyone before hand for being considerate of other members, realizing we all have more in common that not.
Take care and peace,
Rob
My name is Rob. I love designing and building valve amplifiers as I assume that most everyone here does.
I have a small company that caters to a small group of musicians in NY, NJ, PA, and MD. I have a degree in electrical
engineering but my valve knowledge and experience does not come from my education but from investigating and using valve circuits since approximately 1970 as a HAM Radio operator and of course reading TUT (I own all of them) and for the past 18 months correspondence with KOC.
I worked in aerospace industry in the United States for 3 different DOD
contractors, mainly embedded work for the last 20 years of my career, writing millions of lines of code, mainly in C and
C++. Before the embedded stuff, I was involved mainly in the early development of hybrids. Before I obtained my degree
I was an electronics tech so I have a fair amount of diagnosis and repair experience.
With all that said; this is a deep subject, which is not just tech but also has an element of an art form. I look forward to
learning from everyone here and hopefully, I can contribute to other members knowledge and help out with projects, theory,
construction etc. One last thing, I was also a machinist for about 15 years, mainly building engines, but also jobber stuff.
One might say, how can you have done all this, well the simple answer is, I am in my 7th decade on this planet (and maybe
more on another). Humor, is also a very important part of life, never take it to serious, as you won't enjoy it.
One thing I noticed reading the forum before I joined was the civility practiced here. I have left others because of the lack of
this aspect, so I thank everyone before hand for being considerate of other members, realizing we all have more in common that not.
Take care and peace,
Rob
