Crt fading away

[matt_s78mn]

Originally Posted by karmaman

I completely agree. I am a 15 year old freshman in high school and I'm really into electronics, started when I was 10, and it saddens me I was not around during the heyday of tubes. The way they work absolutely fascinates me, I could read about them all day.

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I really wish I had been around 15-20 years earlier, back when LCD and Plasma were unheard of. Nowadays, when you walk into a store, all you see is crap made by Funai and Orion.

Too bad by the time I have enough money to buy stuff tubes will be a thing of the past.

I totally agree with you, karmaman. I was in the same boat as you, lol, I missed the great era of vacuum tube electronics by a few years as well. Really about all ya can do is start collecting, and get hooked on it like most of us in here. Have you thought of electronics as a career? If so, you could focus on RF Communications and Broadcast Engineering like I did. The tube theory I learned on my own by messing around with vintage electronics and reading books on the subjects was useful in school and on the job as well. There are plenty of AM, FM, and TV transmitters out there that use varaiations of vacuum tubes in their finals. Theres things such as IPA tubes, IOT's, Klystron tubes, etc. that broadcast engineers deal with. At least it's one area of electronics where everything isn't completely solid state yet.