Welcome to the Relic-Tronics web pages. Relic-Tronics was founded in 1996 by Russ Hunt. An electrical engineer by day and electronics "old stuff" collector the rest of the time, Russ began to dream of Relic-Tronics - a repair business specializing in vintage vacuum tube equipment ..... guitar amps, ham gear, old radios and TVs, as well as more specialized items like Morse code keys and heavy-metal microphones. Once the concept was born (on the long drive home along Lake Nockamixon), a period of unemployment and a night business course led Russ to pursue official self-employment. The paperwork and legalities having been overcome, a real company emerged ... Relic-Tronics.      

Company Profile

Relic-Tronics exists to fix, restore, reclaim and otherwise bring vintage vacuum tube equipment back to life. We provide this service for guitar amps, electric guitars, ham equipment, and to a lesser extent old radios and TVs.

Relic-Tronics has been doing amp repairs for local music stores for the past 12 years. We can handle both tube and solid-state amps, but we prefer the tube equipment. (Sometimes, you don't know what's inside until you open it up.)  We do repairs and a few complete restorations on ham boatanchor gear also. This part of it started back in the 60's (still in the tube era) as a hobby. Who back then would have thought this ancient knowledge could be of any use today? As freshmen in college we were told to forget everything we ever knew about vacuum tubes!  

Russ Hunt is a graduate of the Cornell University School of Electrical Engineering (BSEE '73) and has over 30 years experience as a real working electrical engineer. He has worked for NCR, Burroughs and a series of smaller companies over the years. His professional expertise is in designing instrumentation for making electrostatics measurements - a mixture of physics and electronics. He was an IEEE Member for  27 years. In spite of this, most of what he knows he learned in Kindergarten or the 1955 ARRL Handbook.

WQ3X Garage Station - The Gold Dust Twins

Sometimes we get the collecting bug BAD! This can be dangerous...

Lafayette KT-135 Explor-Air

60's Regenerative Receiver

The KT-135 was the first kit I ever built back in Jr. High. My old one is long gone but this one came along and I fell for it.

The nice cherry cabinet with finger joints was made by my friend and neighbor, Glenn Kaucher. You can contact Glenn through Relic-Tronics (our Cabinet Division) if you desire one like it or any cabinet for that matter. This man is GOOD!

Then more came along...

This is a regen receiver also - a Mackay Radio & Telegraph Model 128-AY. I also obtained a later version, the Model 3001A, which is prettier and has a small internal speaker, but it is basically the same radio.

(Watch out if you ever ship one of these. The chassis is not supported inside the case. It will easily bend the front panel... and yes, I found this out the hard way.)

Contact Information

Use e-mail for best results. Contact Russ at wq3x@epix.net

Telephone  (evenings)

610-847-8346

 

Postal address

230 Kintner Hill Rd., Upper Black Eddy. PA 18972    U.S.A

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