Ottawa Vintage Radio Club
Ottawa Vintage Radio Club
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
www.ovrc.org
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.
OVRC On-Line Silent Auction
The Fall OVRC On-Line Silent Auction has begun.The auction will end on Tuesday, 10 October 2023 at 8:00 PM.-->
Next OVRC Meeting
Wednesday, 8 November 2023Meeting Starts - 7:30 PM
This will be a combined LIVE and On-Line ZOOM meeting.
Topic - Memories of the DEW Line Radar
Presenter - Bryan Jeffrey
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.
Meetings Calendar - 2023
Next OVRC Live Auction
Sunday, 22 October 2023Doors 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
This 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
We're on YouTube
Featured OVRC video collections include:
- Vintage Radio Restoration
- Electromechanical Television - 6 episodes by Professor Barker
- Hands-on History
- Phantasmagorical
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.
Experimental Radio Viewer
On-going development of a coming website feature. Click Here.
Experimental Reading Room
On-going development of a coming website feature. Click Here.
