Hello everyone, I can't let Grahame have all the fun... Many folks on the list have chatted/conversed/traded etc with me at some point in time and I'm more than happy to help the other British Nick run things as smoothly as possible! I feel lucky in that I've made quite a few firm friends around the world through this hobby/obsession and hope to continue making more.
As some of you are aware, I'm a medicinal chemist by training, but my dad was an EE (now retired), so I grew up around 'cool stuff'...well, *I* thought it was cool, my wife just rolls her eyes... :) Once I got a real job ($$), I found Mike Harrison's website ( http://www.electricstuff.co.uk), quickly followed by Jeff Thomas' (RIP) website and the rest is very much downhill (and increasingly expensive...). I have a website in the works (*still*...) where I hope to collate a lot of things nixie/neon/vfd/numitron/crt/you name it, with the occasional thing for sale too...I'm not talented enough to design things from scratch, but I'm not bad at case design/general fabrication and now know my way around a circuit or two.... :) Cheers, (Pharma) Nick On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 12:25 PM 'Grahame' via neonixie-l < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi All > > Just to introduce myself as some of you may not know me. I lurk a lot and > I'm not a prolific poster to the group. But I read everything that is > posted avidly. > > My background is that I'm a chemical engineer and worked for a chemical > company in the UK, USA and Canada for about 20 years, then I moved into > (criminal) law enforcement in the UK. I'm now retired so have lots of time > spare, at least in theory. Nick is generous in saying "a deep understanding > of the technologies" as my knowledge is all self-taught - both electronics > design and writing software. > > We live near Drumnadrochit on the north bank of Loch Ness in the Scottish > Highlands. At the moment we are half way through renovating and extending a > stone cottage. The work has been interrupted by a number of things, the > last, and most serious, as been the virus when Scottish domestic building > went into lockdown. So at the moment my workshop is all boxed up and in > storage. Hopefully we'll be in the new house by Christmas! > > My web site is http://www.sgitheach.org.uk/ , my radio amateur call sign > is GM4EKI (everything is boxed and in storage) and you can find me on > Instagram as grahame_marsh. All good fun. > > I'm looking forward to helping Nick deS and the other moderators when I > have learned my duties! > > cheers Grahame > On 14/07/2020 14:52, neonixie-l wrote: > > Greetings! > > Just a heads-up on a few changes... > > I've not done much with the group for 10 years, and it's time for a small > refresh... > > Please welcome Grahame Marsh and Nick Stock as moderators, joining John > Smout & myself. Both are well known to the group and have a deep > understanding of the technologies involved... > > ...apart from that, Nick has a great first name and happens to share my > birthday ! > > Grahame and I have have been swapping emails for many many years and he > and Nick have worked (and are working) on some great projects. Yes, I know > we're all British (though Nick S. lives in the USA, Grahame in Scotland and > I've lived in the Middle East for the last few years - at least John S. > lives in London!) > > The library re-organisation will restart (my fault for just getting > distracted) and we're open to ideas from all and sundry about what we could > do to improve the group... > > All the best > > Nick de Smith > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "neonixie-l" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/c383a6d1-cb33-4d4e-a301-9cc0639f23ebn%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/c383a6d1-cb33-4d4e-a301-9cc0639f23ebn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "neonixie-l" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/f15debdb-3d99-6db7-baae-ba6e062b8943%40googlemail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/f15debdb-3d99-6db7-baae-ba6e062b8943%40googlemail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/CAOX%2BRHLP1zt8zvc_ryU%3DMzkA-zNxmvO9c8AcNLnzZLXDmaJ1bg%40mail.gmail.com.
