RE: Joe, I have NOT forgotten when you gave me two free Russian oil caps to try {250 volt}...

Glad you remember that event, because I didn't!

I now recommend the type KBG 2uf caps over the MBG kind I used to like. Couldn't get KBG back then.

My response to Tom Brennan is not a question of defense but rather education. People have no idea what they were dealing with when subscribing to Sound Practices.

It was not a business per se, it was a communal effort of a bunch of non-professional freaks writing and working for free. It cost money (lots) to print and mail, so subscription money was a necessary evil.

There was no office, no staff. I published the first 6 issues on a 286 computer in a word processing program and pasted the pages up on poster board. It was like the Ben Franklin days. I did this in a one bedroom apartment in Alexandria, VA.

Later, I had a mother in law suite attached to my house in Austin which was my lab, ham shack, and publishing empire. One mac computer. I edited those mags in the middle of the night when it was quiet and the phone wasn't ringing nonstop, smoking a Willie Nelson size spliff in a bathing suit, listening to blues on 755As. Austin, you know...

There was one Italian subscriber who sent me a $20 bill every time I mailed out a magazine. I think he was paid up to Issue #60 or so. I think he understood what was going on.

I actually had no idea what I was doing but somehow it worked...for a while.

Periodical publishing is very tough to pull off. I wouldn't recommend trying it.

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Topic - A Cool video of Joe Roberts. - TubeBuilder 00:48:00 07/02/12 (20)

RE: A Cool video of Joe Roberts. - TubeBuilder 01:06:58 07/02/12 (19)

RE: A Cool video of Joe Roberts. - tomservo 11:01:01 07/02/12 (8)

Which make me doubt the 93db/? specification. And BDS is going to kick in pretty early as well. - Timbo in Oz 19:34:43 07/02/12 (7)

Huh!? - Timbo in Oz 05:10:18 07/06/12 (0)

RE: Which make me doubt the 93db/? specification. And BDS is going to kick in pretty early as well. - Joe Roberts 20:12:16 07/05/12 (0)

RE: Which make me doubt the 93db/? specification. And BDS is going to kick in pretty early as well. - tomservo 10:46:11 07/03/12 (3)

RE: Which make me doubt the 93db/? specification. And BDS is going to kick in pretty early as well. - Joe Roberts 12:52:29 07/06/12 (0)

See the ayatollah's response above!? - Timbo in Oz 05:13:23 07/06/12 (1)

huh? - Joe Roberts 11:59:25 07/06/12 (0)

RE: Which make me doubt the 93db/? specification. And BDS is going to kick in pretty early as well. - Kloss 07:30:08 07/03/12 (0)

RE: A Cool video of Joe Roberts. - Tom Brennan 08:15:22 07/02/12 (9)

RE: A Cool video of Joe Roberts. - Joe Roberts 19:41:25 07/05/12 (5)

RE: A Cool video of Joe Roberts. - Doug in Indy 04:18:28 09/11/12 (0)

RE: A Cool video of Joe Roberts. - Tom Brennan 11:49:01 07/06/12 (1)

RE: A Cool video of Joe Roberts. - Joe Roberts 11:56:19 07/06/12 (0)

Joe, I have NOT forgotten when you gave me two free Russian oil caps to try {250 volt}... - Cleantimestream 22:27:31 07/05/12 (1)

RE: Joe, I have NOT forgotten when you gave me two free Russian oil caps to try {250 volt}... - Joe Roberts 23:24:54 07/05/12 (0)

Sorry to hear that. - R Browne 21:41:48 07/02/12 (2)

RE: Sorry to hear that. - TubeBuilder 10:31:26 07/03/12 (1)

SP on ebay cheap! - TubeBuilder 10:42:47 07/03/12 (0)

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RE: Joe, I have NOT forgotten when you gave me two free Russian oil caps to try {250 volt}... - Joe Roberts 23:24:54 07/05/12 (0)

RE: Joe, I have NOT forgotten when you gave me two free Russian oil caps to try {250 volt}...

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