Ottawa Vintage Radio Club
Ottawa Vintage Radio Club
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
www.ovrc.org
Home Page Annex
Topical Images and Supplemental Links from recent OVRC MeetingsWednesday, 12 June 2024
- Tube Substitutions Recent discussions and referral to many OVRC Newsletter articles
End of an Era, October 2023
- 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.
Wednesday, 8 February 2023
- Resistors in your Old Radios, a presentation by Gord Rabjon
- Resistor Challenge with Solutions (Try it before peeking.)
Wednesday, 11 January 2023
- Capacitors in your Old Radios, a presentation by Gord Rabjon
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"
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- Mechanical Televison
- The Peck Television Corporation of Canada (ref earlytelevision.org)
- Canada's first commercially available computer
- The Ferut, Canada’s first commercially available general-purpose electronic computer, and the second ever sold in the world, a Ferranti Mark 1 computer.
- Mers Kutt
- Key-Edit, Micro Computer Machines, MCM/70, etc
- Gerald Bull
- 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
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Wednesday, 14 October 2020
- "Collins Radio"
- Collins Radio
- Pre-war: The Lost Decade (Video by WA9MZU)
- Virtual Collins Museum (by WA3KEY)
- Collins The First 50 Years
- Arthur A Collins Legacy Association
- R-390 Engineering Report
- R-390 Compendium