user:EricBarbour

Personal information:

I am the founding Senior Editor of VACUUM TUBE VALLEY magazine. I am also a longtime contributor to GLASS AUDIO, AUDIOXPRESS, and TUBE COLLECTOR magazines; and have written hundreds of articles about tube electronics.

I am the recipient of the 2004 Tube Collector's Association STOKES AWARD and the 1999 Antique Wireless Association GERALD F. J. TYNE AWARD for my writings about the early history of electronics, specifically vacuum tubes.

See the following websites for more information about my past writings.

[http://www.vacuumtube.com VACUUM TUBE VALLEY magazine homepage]

[http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/archive/1640 my article for IEEE SPECTRUM magazine, August 1998]

[http://www.jacmusic.com/html/articles/ericbarbour/howavacuumtubeworks.html My article about vacuum tube basics, written when I was applications engineer for Russian tube maker Svetlana Electron Devices]

[http://www.audioxpress.com/magsdirx/ax/index.htm AUDIOXPRESS magazine homepage]

[http://www.cgs.synth.net/tube/index.html My writings about vacuum-tube music synthesizers]

[http://www.tubecollectors.org/ Tube Collector's Association homepage]