About Relic-Tronics®
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 old time microphones. Once the concept and name 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
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The Owner
Russ Hunt is a graduate of the Cornell University School of Electrical Engineering (BSEE '73) with a lifetime of 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. Big deal, most of what he knows he learned from the 1955 ARRL Handbook.
Russ Hunt