and our TUBETVSHOP.COM portal

Origin of AMPTECHSYSTEMS.COM

When I developed the idea of formally opening a business in 1992 to supplement "serial temporary jobs" in Industrial Electronics, my Business Plan was for a Tube Audio Amplifier Service facility and for the eventual manufacture of some amplifier models I had designed.  Amptech began as a brand name for five amplifier models  The planned product line consisted of 50- and 100-watt guitar amp heads, 50- and 100-watt guitar combo amps, and a 50-watt stereo hi-fi power amplifier which were all designed around the US type 6CA7 (European type EL-34) power amplifier tube.  The five models were assigned model numbers GH-50, GH-100, GC-50, GC-100, and HF-5050 respectively. This was, of course, just before the commercial debut of Internet technology and eventual availability of user-friendly and affordably-priced access.  The idea for AMPTECHSYSTEMS.COM was conceived in 1996, and began as an Amptech page on another domain.  The site was launched as its own domain in 2002 with much help from my late wife, Jan.  

Origin of TUBETVSHOP.COM

Ever since 2002, our most-popular Service has been the Restoration of Vintage TV, Radio, Hi-Fi, and other equipment utilizing vacuum tube technology for display as fully-functional Collectibles as opposed to inanimate items of antique furniture.  Since 2002, Restoration of Vintage Television sets and our TV Parts Reproductions have been the most-popular items of our product and service line overall, outselling Restoration of Radio, Hi-Fi, and other equipment by a five-to-one ratio.  Some years after Jan passed away, I met Jamie.  Jamie seems to have "picked up where Jan left off" in many ways, as if many of her ideas are the product of asking herself "What would Jan do?"  Jamie owns and operates her own small catering business mainly for Corporate luncheons, http://www.culinaryduet.com, in the Akron, Ohio metro area, and does reasonably well with it despite downsizing and other budget cuts affecting the frequency with which most of her clients can afford to conduct business meetings over catered lunches.  Whether by conscious effort to continue the mission Jan started in 2002 or by exceptional talent with small business Marketing, Jamie's ideas usually work very well.  During a recent weekend business trip for which I had brought fewer business cards than I actually needed, Jamie suggested creating a Web portal referring specifically to Vintage Television Service in the Web address itself.  The idea was pure genius.  Her first suggestion of a URL turned out to be not-quite-suitable, but TUBETVSHOP.COM was an available domain name without any potential as a double-entendre which might have conjured up images of an elderly gentleman in an evening gown. lol  We considered a few other, even more specific, options.  We dismissed most of them as "too long to remember easily" and went with TUBETVSHOP.COM as the best of all the options we had considered.

Conclusion

That's the History of TUBETVSHOP.COM in two short paragraphs.  Thank you for visiting this History page.            

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