Our appologies to all our members for being off line for the last few days. It took quite a bit of work to bring the forums back online. There is one thing you will notice. The attachments are missing from the posts. This is a casualty of the corrupted database, but all the threads are there and no member data was lost.

Thank You, to everyone involved, for your efforts.....
Glad we're back
In WHATEVER FORM it took!!!

thanks guys :banana: :banana: :banana:

Missed this place...

Thanks!!!

looks like any attachments made via a seperate hosting sevice survived

Excellent! A gigantic

THANK YOU

to everyone involved!

I thank you and all who made this happen, Wardsweb, most gratefully. The idiot who pulled the plug is the one who should apologize (or be put in front of a firing squad), not you, sir! :D Attachments lost? As far as I can see, that's a small price to pay.

It's good to be home. :smlove:

Tom

Tim, Luther, Dave, and anyone else involved in getting the site back up, thank you a million times over. And for putting the old server back in operation in the meantime, I thank you as well; even though answering posts a year old makes ya feel kinda stupid LOL

Thank you for all your efforts!

YEAH AK is back it was a very hard time without !!keep it running :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana:

Thanks to all who worked so hard to get AK back. For some of us, AK is a very important part of our lives. :banana:

A big thumbs up to all who helped. :thmbsp:

Big ups to Wards and everyone else!

Yahh-Hoo !! Mountain Dew! AK's back ! God's in his heaven, all's right w/the world....-Sandy G.

Good to see you all again! Thanks for your efforts, Luther et al.!

Great work everybody, shame about the pics, but I just amazed you guys were able to rescue anything given the circumstances.

Thanks Luther and all who must've busted butt getting it back up. Death to idiot server hosts!!

Pete

Leaves got raked, house repaired, honey do list completed.... thank goodness AK is back! I can't stand being so friggin' productive!

Many thanks to Luther, Tim, Dave and to everyone else who makes this place tick! :yes:

Leaves got raked, house repaired, honey do list completed.... thank goodness AK is back! I can't stand being so friggin' productive!

Ain't it the truth, got the entire house cleaned up, baby room painted, furnature moved in and watched Revenge of the Sith about 6 times....... :D glad my beloved AK is back!!!!! :banana2: :banana2: :banana2: :banana2:

I actually refinished 1-1/2 pairs of speakers... Funny how much work you can do on audio stuff, if you're not here talking about working on audio stuff...

I'm holding back the tears of joy :thmbsp: - Mark

watched Revenge of the Sith about 6 times.....

Wow! And I thought my life without AK was sad ... :D

Glad to see most everything intact, including private messages!
Thanks to everyone involved.

Thanks to all involved in the project. Must have been a nightmare.

A big THanks to everyone who worked their ass off to get AK back up and running. Attachments are a small sacrifice to save the valuable site that this is!

Thankls to the site admins.

Greetings all :banana:

Don't know what happenned. My earlier reply went away. But, good to see you guys back. Notice, with a littlehelp from my Karma, And Syl's radios friends, I was able to copy my Avatar from Syls. No, it's not my dog. I love animals. Someone offered to help me on shrinking my over-sized pictures. Is that offer still standing? I can e-mail copies. :banana: :)

Would it help at all if a lot of the members got together and deleted their old posts that they felt werent productive?Theres a lot of things I write that are just fun,or really,really stupid.With all the effort you guys put in,I wouldnt mind putting in some time to weed through some of my less interesting/informative posts.Not deleting any threads that I started,just maybe some extraneous responses.Im sure that would get me down to about 5 posts.Just an idea.
Jimmy

Nope, leave everything as it is. We're working on getting the pics all back as well :)

Good job, and thanks for all the hard work...

Rich P

Thanks for everything. Here's to many more years of audio bliss :thmbsp:

Any idea how it happened, or have the "names been changed" to keep things civilized??

I really missed being able to use this site for opinions and information. Thanks for the hard work guys!
Jim

Amen to all that has been said, recovered a few servers in my day and it is as much art as science, but either way it is a lot of plain hard work. The only god thing that will hopefully come out of all this is sufficient donations to cover the new server (hint hint, wink wink, nudge nudge). Seriously guys we are really lucky to have the dedicated crew that runs this site and they deserve all the support we can give them.

Rob

Glad site is mostly working. Glad all you guys made it back. And, to all of you who helped me while at temporary site, A Big THANK YOU! :thmbsp: :yes: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana:

Great Work Kam,Grump,Wards and whoever else who spliced the cable

Alan

Don't know who the kind soul was that told me about the other site, but, so far, not any fault of yours, nor, even mine, site rejected me. I got an e-mail from them last night saying I had to get my parents', or guardians' signature, and fax it in. I have been in touch with Ron. He says sytems' not set up for that, and it sounds like someone broke in, and is manipulating the system. He asked for, and I sent some important information, but, so far, have heard nothing. I'm very dissappointed......... :sigh:

Don't know who the kind soul was that told me about the other site, but, so far, not any fault of yours, nor, even mine, site rejected me. I got an e-mail from them last night saying I had to get my parents', or guardians' signature, and fax it in. I have been in touch with Ron. He says sytems' not set up for that, and it sounds like someone broke in, and is manipulating the system. He asked for, and I sent some important information, but, so far, have heard nothing. I'm very dissappointed......... :sigh:

What site are you talking about ?

It might take a while for the site to regain it's users. It seems many have not found their way back here yet.

Don't know what happenned. My earlier reply went away. But, good to see you guys back. Notice, with a littlehelp from my Karma, And Syl's radios friends, I was able to copy my Avatar from Syls. No, it's not my dog. I love animals. Someone offered to help me on shrinking my over-sized pictures. Is that offer still standing? I can e-mail copies. :banana: :)
Yessir that was me. A pm to me will get any ball rollin':)
Tom

Thanks for working so hard to get this wonderful place back on line. I really missed it.

Thanks Again!!!

Paul

I just want to say thanks for bring it back up. I cannot thank you all enough for allowing me to share my love and hobby with everyone else.

Thank you again. :)

Jonathan

... A pm to me will get any ball rollin':)
Tom


A huge THANKS to Grumpy, Ward, Kam, and whoever else was out there behind the scenes rescuing our precious posts... ummm... interesting missives... ummm... accumulated blather (in my case).

One important note to you all: Please quit apologizing! No one has to apologize for breaking their backs providing a largely free high-quality service. We, the membership, owe you an apology for not contributing enough to make sure these glitches can be avoided.

One important note to the Members: Remember back in the days when AOL charged by the hour? My AOL bills ran over $300 some months, and I swear I didn't spend as much time as I do now on AK, didn't learn much of anything, and only found a few people I was willing to meet in person. At those rates, and matching value for value, most of the members here (including me) owe AK hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars. $20 isn't enough. If you can afford more, send it!

Ok, enough of my blather. Now, that OvenMaster has provided the above-quoted revelation, I have to go send him some PMs on mideast peace, my wife's spending, world hunger, and the ground loop hum in my tweeter amps (not necessarily in that order). :D

Blah Blah Blah

See ya crackpot - Russ

So back from the island of misfit toys huh? Well go take your train with square wheels somewhere else asshole!

Ok, enough of my blather. Now, that OvenMaster has provided the above-quoted revelation, I have to go send him some PMs on mideast peace, my wife's spending, world hunger, and the ground loop hum in my tweeter amps (not necessarily in that order). :D
:lmao: I am more powerful than you think, sir! :D I do try to be humble most of the time by keeping that big "S" on my costume hidden. Fire away.
Clark Kent

:lmao: I am more powerful than you think, sir! :D I do try to be humble most of the time by keeping that big "S" on my costume hidden. Fire away. Clark Kent

Oh... now I understand! Before, I thought the "S" stood for Stereophile.

AAAACKKKKK!!! Never, never, NEVER! :yikes: I'm above that sort of thing:D
Tom

I join the throng of other grateful members in thanking all those responsible for the work it took to resume AK's proceedings. The loss of the graphic stuff is regretable, but the retrieval of the archive was a great achievement. Bravo! — Lorne

THANK GOODNESS FOR AK'S RETURN :banana: :banana: :banana: They say you don't know what you've got , TILL IT'S GONE !!! NO NO , NOT TRUE in THIS case :no: I KNEW IMMEDIATELY/EXACTLY WHAT I WAS MISSING !
When I came home this past weekend with one of my BIGGEST Vintage Audio Gear hauls in years AND THERE WAS NO AK there for my brief theripy session , I SURE DID know what and who I was missing: :yes: THE "BEST" DAMN BUNCH OF VINTAGE AUDIO GEAR ADDICTION THERIPISTS ON THE PLANET :yes: :yes: :yes: :thmbsp: :thmbsp: :thmbsp: Everyone THANK YOU for all you're efforts in bringing back "AK" :thmbsp: ....mike

2Duals not enough, Nice mixmaster. I have that model. Love it. Same model my mom had when I was a boy. Would love to find more attachments for it. Have beaters, 2 white bowls, and Juicer, like yours. Nice Mixer!!

Hey, ovenmaster, did you get my e-mail yesterday?
As for what other site, it is a site for, and about Philco radios, among other things. I now seem to be tied in with 4 forums. However, in order, I think the best two are Audio Karma, and Syls'. However, Antique Radio Forum is a very close tie with Syls'.

Bought a replacement keyboard for computer today. I seem to have wrecked original. I guess I slammed my head on it once, too often.

"If it lights, and leaves you with a warm glow, turn off the tv." :banana: :banana: :yes:

I just checked my email now, Bill. I shall get to that pic ASAP. :yes:
Tom

Hi Bill: What is 'Syls'? I did surf on over to Antique Radio Forum. Thanks for the heads up. — Lorne

http://oldradioz.com/forum/index.php?sid=56563de3d9efabaaea9f67ccceffaab0

Enjoy.. There's also another one, if interested, that among other things, deals with Philco radios. :banana:

http://philcoradio.com/phpBB2/index.php

Now, it's back to gettin' absolutely nothing done in my shop! Damn;)