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, 8 March 2023
Meeting Starts - 7:30 PM
This will be a combined
LIVE and On-Line
ZOOM meeting.
Topic -
The Williamson Amplifier - presented by Barry Paulson
... set the standard of high fidelity sound reproduction and served as a benchmark or reference amplifier design throughout the 1950s.
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, 28 May 2023
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
We're on YouTube
Featured 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.