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Old 20th Dec 2017, 11:48 am   #1
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Default Happy 15th Birthday UKVRRR!

This forum is officially 15 years old today. I joined as the first member when I set it up on 20th December 2002.

These are the five oldest threads I can find in the database. Some interesting discussions from the start.

The forum started on a different system and was converted to vBulletin later, so the earliest existing threads do not have the lowest thread IDs.

https://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/...read.php?t=404
https://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/...read.php?t=400
https://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/...read.php?t=679
https://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/...read.php?t=688
https://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/...read.php?t=687

Thank you to everyone for your contributions over the last 15 years, and to the current and previous moderators for helping to keep things running smoothly.
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Old 20th Dec 2017, 12:44 pm   #2
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Thank you Paul and all the moderators past and present for providing us with this wonderful resource. I have been a member since 3rd May 2003 and it is part of my life now.
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Old 20th Dec 2017, 12:49 pm   #3
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My first post was in 2008.

Many thanks to all who run/moderate this forum.

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Old 20th Dec 2017, 12:55 pm   #4
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I can only echo Colin's comments, having been a forum member for about half the time it has exsisted. It's a very good resource to which I hope I have been able, over the years, to have contibuted useful information, and certainly received much help from other members over the years. Other parts of the site, in particular the Vintage Radio Service Data section, have also been a great help to me. Many thanks Paul, and the Moderating team.
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Old 20th Dec 2017, 1:01 pm   #5
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I joined in 2003 looking for a replacement tuning scale for a Philips radio. I can't remember the details now, but somebody sent me the part from a scrap set FOC, so forum members have always been a generous and helpful lot.
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Old 20th Dec 2017, 1:41 pm   #6
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This forum is officially 15 years old today. I joined as the first member when I set it up on 20th December 2002.
Just realised it will be my 10th birthday on the 3rd of Jan

This is a great forum and my first point of call for anything radio related.

Thanks to Paul and mods for keeping it going Happy Birthday!

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Old 20th Dec 2017, 1:57 pm   #7
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Happy Birthday! A fabulous resource, ably moderated and with a super friendly membership.
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Old 20th Dec 2017, 3:12 pm   #8
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Well done Paul. Excellent work.
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Congrats from me too, excellent forum and excellent work done by all, long may it continue.

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Old 20th Dec 2017, 3:46 pm   #10
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Pleased to have been a member since 16 Feb 2003.

I didn't featured in any of those early threads, so I guess I must have been a 'lurker' rather than a 'poster' back then!

Good to see that several of those early posters are still active members of the forum.

Many thanks to Paul for creating the forum, and the rest of the admin team for helping to 'keep the show on the road'.

I don't think it's ever skipped a beat, apart from occasional planned maintenance.
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Old 20th Dec 2017, 4:50 pm   #11
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I am pleased to have been a member since May 2007 and appreciate the efforts of Paul and his moderators to make this forum the high standard that it is.
I originally joined as I was interested in 625/405 line standards converters and successfully built the Darius converter featured here back in 2006/7.
The wide range of knowledge displayed by various members' is inspiring and has helped on many occasions when fault finding a difficult set.

It's been a pleasure taking part, happy 15th birthday from me too and long may this forum continue.

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Happy Birthday! It has been an honour to belong to a great group.
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Old 20th Dec 2017, 7:15 pm   #13
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Happy Birthday UKVRR!

And many, many thanks to Paul and the team for bringing it up so well!
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Happy birthday UKVRR! I'm very glad I found you and joined in 2006 and hope to be here for a long time to come!
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Thank you Paul and the Mods for a well organised and well run forum.

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2005 for me. It's been great fun and I've met a lot of very decent guys. Thanks, John.
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Old 20th Dec 2017, 8:22 pm   #17
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2005 for me too. My thanks to Paul for creating such a great online meeting place, and for hosting my three sites too - providing an ultra-reliable service.

Not forgetting the mods here too... thank you.

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Old 20th Dec 2017, 10:19 pm   #18
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2004 here. I can't remember what it was like way back then, but nowadays it continues to be a place of common sense and sanity. Many thanks to Paul and the moderating team for keeping the high standards.
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Old 20th Dec 2017, 11:01 pm   #19
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Boo!

2005 for me - Good to see the forum still going strong

Cheers to all
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Hi,
Discovering the Forum a couple of years ago and then joining 6 months later, rekindled my desire to play with old TV's again! Strangely, the early days of the forum coincided with the height of my activities but I didn't know about it
It really is a fantastic community of friendly, helpful folk with a huge diversity of backgrounds which makes for interesting discussion.
I have very much enjoyed being part of it, so, many thanks to Paul for providing such a great resource, and to the rest of the team for ensuring that it remains the civilised, intelligent place that it is!

And finally: Happy Birthday UKVRRR !(should be the UKVR&TVRR Forum really!!)

All the best
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