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Each month the UK magazine Practical Wireless has a column called Valve and Vintage. I contribute to the column every three months, and I mainly feature valve equipment from 1945 onwards, and simple valve projects. If you really want to E-mail me then use 'phil-at-g4jcp-dot-freeserve.co.uk'. Sorry, anti-spam and all.
If you want to tell me how awful this site is, don't bother. I already know. What is here is a much-reduced version of what was once at www.valveandvintage.co.uk. If you've not been here before, please take a look at my disclaimers. Go on, it won't hurt you.
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The following links have either been visited by myself at one time or another, or have been added at the request of the linked-to page's author. However, some links may not work. The broken ones will be removed when I get around to trying them.
There's a great free e-zine on the web now, all about valve
circuit design. Definitely worth a visit or two, or three.
http://www.tubecad.com/.
And there's an associated site dealing with valve audio design
software at
http://www.glass-ware.com/.
There's this guy who is starting to deal in audiophile and other bits for valve amplifiers. His site is at http://www.netcentral.co.uk/satcure/audio/.
Crazy, I know, but there's this record shop in Australia called Hadley Records. Eric Scott tells me they have some old stuff and some valves, so go take a look at http://www1.tpgi.com.au/users/hadrecs/
You must have heard of QUAD. Sooner or later there just had to be a shrine to that world-famous hi-fi company. Ade Clark finally cracked and created Quad World at http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Lab/6722/
Another interesting vintage site from Down Under is Valve Electronics' web site at http://www.ozemail.com/~valve1/.
A new site dedicated to Bush radios is at http://freespace.virgin.net/jamie.gohl/.
If
you're looking for data and related information about a particular
thermionic valve (tube, as the Americans say) then the best place
to go is Steve Bench's web site. There you'll find a tube search
engine that allows easy access to Steve's comprehensive database
of tube data. Note, some of the datasheets are stored on Steve's own
site whilst others are held on remote sites belonging to other people.
So, off you go to
http://tdsl.duncanamps.com/.
Steve also maintains a site devoted to valve-related technical
topics. That's well worth a visit too. See
http://members.aol.com/sbench101/.
Another very useful place for valve data is Frank Philipse's web site at http://home.wxs.nl/~frank.philipse/frank/frank.html.
Sir Douglas Hall has produced some 'interesting' circuits over the years. Geoffrey Brown has almost every circuit designed by Sir Douglas Hall on his website at http://www.spontaflex.freeserve.co.uk/. Well worth a look.
These pages contain no Java, frames, sounds, silly animated GIFs or
anything else that wastes bandwidth, increases download time and obscures
the paltry information content of this site. Your latest installation of
Netscape 9 or Microsoft's wotsit 6 is totally wasted here.
In fact, you can even browse these pages with nothing more advanced than
a brain and a text editor. Notepad or Vi you should have.........
They have been optimised (optimised! that's a laugh) for an 800 x 600 pixel screen size. But quite honestly, use whatever screen resolution you want. At least you don't need a huge monitor and mega-pixel resolution because most of the screen is being taken up by useless frames and silly graphics.
I realise these pages are less than pretty. In fact, they're downright dull. But they load fast and can, in most cases, be browsed successfully by people with visual impairments. Also, if the information you're looking for isn't here, then you won't have wasted much time waiting for these pages to load.
All the stuff here is copyright unless it isn't in which case the text will have told you otherwise. Okay, so some photographs/images might have been ripped-off. That's all I'm saying
All trademarks and such like are acknowledged, even the incredibly stupid ones. If I were boss of a company that used such a crass trademark as 'where do you want to go today' I'd be the richest man on Earth. I think it's stupid and I'm broke. Shows how in-tune with the world I am.
But seriously, the information given in these pages is believed to be correct. However, I cannot guarantee it and I cannot accept legal responsibility for it. Also, as valves use high voltages you should make yourself aware of the dangers before you begin playing with valve equipment. So, put bluntly, you are on your own. It's your risk. Don't blame me if you fall down a flight of stairs after reading this. You should look where you're going. I can't be behind you all the time to catch you when............. And it's no good suing me, I haven't got any money.
