Ottawa Vintage Radio Club

Topical Images and Supplemental Links from recent OVRC Meetings

Wednesday, 14 April 2021

From Musée des ondes, Emile Berliner, the book "Early Radio Innovation in Canada" by Denis Couillard (the early days of Marconi)

Wednesday, 10 March 2021

"Canadian careers"

- The Peck Television Corporation of Canada (ref earlytelevision.org)
- The Ferut, Canada’s first commercially available general-purpose electronic computer, and the second ever sold in the world, a Ferranti Mark 1 computer.
- Key-Edit, Micro Computer Machines, MCM/70, etc
- High Altitude Research Project (HARP) , etc

Wednesday, 11 November 2020

"Share your favourite books and literature"

"Radiotron Designers Handbook" 4th edition 1953 can be downloaded from tubebooks.org
"70 years of radio tubes and valves" by John W Stokes (1982, Vestal Press)
"The Art of Electronics" Paul Horowitz, Winfield Hill , 1980, 1989, Cambridge University Press
"Reference Data for Radio Engineers" 4th ed. 1943, 1956 ITT Westman (editor)
"Crystal Fire" Michael Riordan, Lillian Hoddeson 1997, Norton and Company
"Empire of the Air" Tom Lewis 1991 HarperCollins
John Gilbert says: "Check out www.librarything.com. It's a great way to catalogue your books and a good source for rare books of all kinds."
All American Five Radio: Richard McWhorter home page and YouTube site.
The All-American Five Radio: Understanding and Restoring Transformerless Radios of the 1940'S, 50'S, and 60's Paperback (also by McWhorter) Amazon
"Fixing Up Nice Old Radios" Amazon

Wednesday, 14 October 2020

"Collins Radio"