Our members share wide-ranging interests in the history and preservation of antique radio.
Through our meetings and newsletters, we discuss the collection, restoration and appreciation of
vintage hardware, old wireless communications systems and archaic technologies, their obsolescence notwithstanding.
Next OVRC Meeting
Wednesday, 10 April 2024
Meeting Starts - 7:30 PM
This will be a combined
LIVE and On-Line
ZOOM meeting.
Topic -
Inductors -
all you needed to know but were afraid to ask
Host - Tom Devey
Members are welcome to join the meeting at our normal venue, or On-Line.
Please attend in-person, on location, only if you are healthy, without Covid symptoms (or any other symptoms for that matter).
The James Bartleman Centre
100 Tallwood Drive, Ottawa -
Map
If you wish to attend On-Line, review your recent email, or contact
ovrcpres@gmail.com for the link, and study
How to Zoom for OVRC.
Due to our scheduled visit to the Ingenium, there will be no regular March meeting.
Meetings Calendar - 2024
Next OVRC Live Auction
Sunday, 26 May 2024
Doors Open - 12:00 PM
Auction Starts - 1:00 to 1:30 PM
All lots to be sold must be pre-registered no later than the day before the auction.
Auction Rules and Information
Canterbury Community Centre
2185 Arch Street, Ottawa -
Map
Sellers may include one photo (only) and a short (30 characters maximum) description of each lot being submitted.
You can preview early bird items
HERE.
NEW - OVRC On-Line Discussion Forum
HERE is a place for members of the Ottawa Vintage Radio Club to discuss radio repair issues, look for parts, trade vintage electronics, and organize meetings and events.
You can request membership on the site or contact
ovrcpres@gmail.com
NEW - OVRC Virtual Museum Demo
On-going development of a coming website feature. Click
HERE.
We're on YouTube
Featured
OVRC video collections include:
- Vintage Radio Restoration
- Electromechanical Television - 6 episodes by Professor Barker
- Hands-on History
- Phantasmagorical
OVRC On-Line Silent Auction
The Fall
OVRC On-Line Silent Auction has closed.
End of an Era
After a broadcasting presence in Ottawa that lasted 101 years through changes of callsign, frequency, management, ownership, style and audience, AM radio station CIWW, 50,000 watts on 1310Khz
went silent on 26 October 2023. See
Wikipedia - CIWW
Many of us remember it as CKOY (1949 - 1985). Here's a vintage
CKOY Ottawa Picture Album.
Monthly Columns
The monthly Zoom columns are working well. We'd like another columnist or two and a meeting sponsor.
Some ideas:
- Tell us about a radio you repaired
- Test equipment
- Quirky circuit of the month. (Tell us about relaxation oscillators, negative resistance oscillators, ratio detectors, multivibrators, tunnel diodes, reflex receivers…)
- Tube of the month
- My collection (for those of you with large collections, go thru a part each month)
- Non-radio vintage electronics (organs, theremins, diathermy, hearing aids, intercoms, computers,…)
- Recorders (tape, wire, cylinder, disk…)
- Important Canadian radio stations
- Technology museums
- Military electronics
- Wartime electronics
- Ham radio for non-hams
- Cabinet repair
Recent OVRC Meetings
Topical images and supplemental links from recent meetings can be found on the home page
ANNEX.