The OVRC Newsletter

"Dedicated to the Preservation and Presentation of

Canadian Radio History"

Volume 31 Number 2 Summer, 2023

From the Editorʹs Desk

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provided purely for the interest of readers. OVRC or the OVRC
executive members accept no responsibility for
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Please contact the editor if you would prefer to In This Issue:

receive the OVRC newsletter by email as a
PDF file (under 10 MB). A message from the
President
A Brief History of the
OVRC

30 years Bias Cells

Canadian Interference
Patrol
Riquewihr 2023
Rebuilding a Stewart
Warner King
CBC Wired Broadcasting
System
Sawtooth

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 Meetings
Our monthly meetings are now again held at our usual venue with simultaneous Zoom video
conferencing. Members will be advised if there are any changes to this procedure. Auctions will also
resume at our usual location. See the last page for planned dates of all meetings and events.

Monthly Meetings Auction, May/November

The Ottawa Archives, at The James Bartleman Canterbury Community Centre
Center, 100 Tallwood Drive, Ottawa, ON K2G 4R7. 2185 Arch St., Ottawa, Ontario K1G 2H5.
On the west side of Woodroffe Ave.; 3 stoplights Arch street is accessed from Canterbury Av. and
south of Baseline Road; turn west onto Tallwood Halifax Dr. off Walkley Road, between St. Laurent
and drive all around the building. The room is the Blvd. and Conroy Rd. It can also be accessed from
first on the right after the entrance. Pleasant Park Dr.

Membership
$15 per year in Cdn.$ for Canadian members, U.S. $ for others. Apply at any meeting or auction, by mail, or
contact the Treasurer below. Visit OVRC at [Link] for more details. We also offer a
discount on OVRC dues, when you pay for 3 years at once the cost is only $40.

E‑Mail Contact
The club occasionally emails information on activity changes, sales, notable events, etc., to a contact list.
Members who do not receive messages and would like to do so, please send an email to the president.

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 A Message from the President

Hello Radio People,

Radio remains relevant in the 21st century despite the rise of digital media and the internet. While
traditional radio broadcasting has faced challenges from newer platforms, it continues to hold its
own due to its unique strengths and adaptability. Radio offers a localized and real­time experience,
delivering news, music, talk shows, and sports to a wide audience. It remains a reliable source of
information, particularly in areas with limited internet access or during emergencies when other
communication channels may be disrupted. Moreover, the growth of online streaming and
podcasting has allowed radio stations to reach a global audience, providing a diverse range of
content and catering to individual interests. As technology advances, radio has also embraced
digital platforms, ensuring its presence on smartphones, smart speakers, and other connected
devices. Overall, radio's ability to connect people, provide entertainment, and deliver timely
information ensures its continued relevance in the 21st century.

Full disclosure: the preceding paragraph was generated for me by artificial intelligence machine
"ChatGBT", by asking it "Is radio is relevant in the 21st century". Have you played with any of the AI
engines? It seems to me that I could be replaced by a program!

Happy 30th Birthday, OVRC! This club was launched in 1993. Our June 2023 meeting celebrated
30 years of history with a skill testing contest and prizes!

During Covid, we did not cull our e­mail list. Now that things are returning to normal, I have
consolidated the e­mail mailing list with the official club records. If you are not receiving e­mails
announcing club meetings and auctions, then please contact us to ensure that you are on our list
and that your e­mail address is correct.

I will invite all of you to join the new OVRC group chat (Ottawa­Vintage­Radio­Club at groupsio). A
group chat or chat room is an on­line site where you can witness and participate in discussions (text
based) about a particular topic. There are lots of Antique Radio group chats already, this one is
intended for members of our club, so I expect it to have a "local" character. You can ask and answer
repair questions, inquire about where to get supplies and resources, offer things for sale, tell others
about sales or items you have found, ask to borrow equipment. You can configure it so that you get
messages by e­mail, "daily digests", or just check in when you have time. Of course, no pressure,
you need not join. This group chat is an addition, it does not replace any of our current modes of
communication.

Watch for an on­line auction (run by OVRC) of a collection of antique radios and "fun stuff" in
Gananoque. I expect that it will run in July.

Cheers,

Gord Rabjohn

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 A Brief History of the Ottawa Vintage Radio Club
by Paul Guibord

In the 20 or so years before the existence of the OVRC, anyone not trained in in the subject yet
interested in the history and functioning of early radio sets was operating in a fog. Repairmen as
well as parts had seemingly become nonexistent. Few libraries carried books on the subject and, on
a very rare occasion, a few magazines dedicated to electronics or ham radio would publish a short
article on vintage radio topics. There eventually appeared a few clubs and publications in the U.S.A.
dedicated to the subject. The only Ottawa stores selling electronic parts at retail were Wackid Radio
on Parkdale and Gervais Electronics on Cumberland. The latter even carried vacuum tubes into the
1990’s but mostly miniature and Hi­Fi types. The only widely known repairman that still tackled tube
radios was the notorious Mr. Gillespie of Radio Clinic on Bank Street. Collectors would occasionally
meet at auctions or flea markets but they rarely even knew each other's names. The first well
known radio club in Canada, the Canadian Vintage Wireless Association, was eventually formed in
Toronto in 1970. They published a newsletter called the "Cat's Whisker" and some of us would
occasionally trek down there for meetings or picnics. Unfortunately, they were forced to fold in 1981
when they could not find enough volunteers for their executive.

In Ottawa, a ham by the name of George Atallah (VE3KIA) had tried for some time to get a few
known radio collectors to organize a club and he and Bill Beaton, a ham and well­known collector,
mentioned this to a young man by the name of Mike Velsher. Mike happened to know that the
Ottawa Citizen newspaper rented its large Baxter Rd. conference room at no cost to non­profit
organizations during weekday evenings and he applied and managed to reserve the hall for a few
hours on the evening of November 10 1992.

Another well­known young radio collector, Kevyn Allard, advised a few of his acquaintances of this
event although, at the appointed date, only three persons showed up: Tom Devey, David Frank and
Paul Guibord. These three set up a date to meet again at that location and also agreed to contact
as many other known collectors as they could reach. From that time there were meetings at the
Citizen every month (except July and August) and the attendance quickly grew in size.

Gord Symonds, who had kept a record of the attendees so far, published a first newsletter in the
Spring of 1993 and it set the style for the next 20 years. Given his experience with some larger US
clubs he also wrote a draft constitution and had some handbills printed advertising the new club
which were distributed in libraries and other locations around Ottawa. At the September meeting of
that year, all agreed that there was enough interest to form an actual club and Tom Devey was
elected as president, Mike Velsher as vice­president, Cliff Element as secretary, Gord Symonds as
treasurer and, Bill Beaton volunteered to supply the coffee. The membership then stood at 27 and
would eventually grow to over 200.

The club held its first auction at the Ottawa Citizen building on December 6th 1995. It consisted of
23 lots. The first auctioneer was Doug Bannard and the sales were recorded by Gord Symonds.

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From this time, the internet slowly became accessible to an ever greater number of people and,
over a few years, much of the previously elusive radio information as well as sources of
components and vintage radios themselves would become widely available to all on­line. The club
set up a web presence and Cliff Element became our first webmaster.

In keeping with the spirit of the club's unwritten policy that Executive terms be limited to three
consecutive years, Tom Devey resigned in 1996 and Lea Barker was elected as president while
Paul Guibord replaced Lea as vice­president.

In 2002, Tom Devey made a career move to Calgary. Mike Velsher had moved to Toronto to
concentrate on the restoration of vintage automobiles and motorboats.

Gord Symonds moved to Surrey, BC in 2011. Lea Barker retired as president in 2012 and became
the newsletter editor while Paul Guibord was elected as president and Ian Gorman became vice­
president. Gord Rabjohn, who had been the club auctioneer for some years then, now also
managed the auctions with a brilliant piece of spreadsheet software he created. Barry Paulson
managed donations and auction items and Sylvain Gregoire was now supplying the coffee and
snacks. Bill Beaton, always a strong influence on club matters, passed away in 2014.

In 2018 Gord Rabjohn was elected as vice­president and Mike Briere as treasurer. In August of that
year the club was advised that the Ottawa Citizen would be discontinuing the rental of their
conference hall and the club moved its meetings to a new venue at the City of Ottawa Archives in
the James Bartelman Center on Tallwood Dr.; the room was smaller now but better maintained and
modern audio­visual hardware was built­in.

In January of 2020 Paul Guibord retired as president and was replaced by Gord Rabjohn. Paul
became the newsletter editor and Mike Parent took over as vice­president. A month later, the Covid
pandemic shut down our new venue and, from that point, subsequent meetings as well as
occasional auctions were held on­line by Gord using Zoom. In May of 2022 Gord Symonds,
essentially our founding father, passed away in British Columbia.

In January of 2023 the city reopened their Tallwood Drive archives building and the club resumed
its meetings in person and on­line simultaneously..

NOTE
The club is now offering a discount on OVRC dues when you pay
for 3 years at once. We encourage longer terms as it simplifies the
Treasurer's job. One year or two years are still $15 per year, but
we are offering 3 years for $40.

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 Bias Cells
by Gord Rabjohn
You will find some radios from the 1930's that have a small grey button­shaped thing in a spring
holder. These are bias cells, used for grid bias on a tube. They are essentially small carbon­zinc (or
similar chemistry) batteries. The grid of a tube, operating in class "A" conditions, will not draw
appreciable current, so such a cell should last practically forever. In reality, they did seem to last 20
years or more, though all that I own are at least 70 years old and are dead. When they expire, they
tend to become an open circuit.

[Link]

A Rogers/Deforest AM/SW radio that I repaired recently used bias cells in 2 places: to bias the grid
of the first audio amplifier (a 6Q7 = 75M) and in the Automatic Gain Control (AGC) circuit. I will
consider these two cases separately.

Consulting the data sheet for the 6Q7, it calls for ­1 to ­3 V on the grid. (Indeed, 6B6, 75, 6SQ7,
6AT6 and 6AV6 are all pretty similar in this respect) Operation at 0V causes increased plate current,
lower gain, and possibly more distortion. The bias cell, directly in series with the grid, provides this
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negative voltage. I tried the Rogers/Deforest with and without the bias cell in series with the 6Q7
(75M) grid. With the bias cell in place, the volume was higher and the 6Q7 plate voltage was a
healthy 85V. Without the bias cell (replaced with a short circuit), the plate voltage was only 24V
and volume suffered. The volume could probably have been increased somewhat by decreasing
the load resistance from 500k to maybe 250k, which would raise the plate voltage.

Rogers (and several other manufacturers) seemed to like the bias cell in the grid of the first audio
amplifier, but others tackled the problem differently: 1) reduce the plate load resistor to allow
sufficient plate voltage at the higher current, at some loss of gain; 2) use a cathode bias resistor
(however this adversely affects the operation of the detector diodes that share the cathode); 3) find
a negative bias voltage elsewhere, for example from a resistor in the negative side of the power
supply to ground (this develops a negative voltage that can be used in many places in the radio);
4) self­bias: give the grid a very high resistance to ground (usually 10Meg) to allow self­bias as a
result of "contact potential" in the tube. By the end of the 1930's and into the era of the cheap AC/
DC set, the industry had settled on a combination of 1) and 4)

The use of the bias cell in the ACG circuit is more puzzling. The cell is situated so that is makes the
AGC bias applied to the grid of the IF stage (and maybe the RF stage and the converter too) more
negative than it would be otherwise. It will have the most effect at low signal conditions, where the
grid of the IF amplifier (and the 6J8G converter, in this case) will see the ­1.5V (from the cell)
rather than 0V, thereby lowering gain. It has the opposite effect of "delayed AGC"; delayed AGC
prevents the gain of the IF amplifier from being reduced when receiving weak stations. Why did
Rogers do this? If you check the 6K7 data sheet, it advises against using a bias more positive than
­3V on the grid, so maybe Rogers was just trying to obey the rules. Certainly, plate current runs
quite high with 0V on the grid. Some other designs use a cathode resistor in the 6K7 cathode,
which would have a similar effect. But there are many designs that do neither: they employ no
cathode bias resistor in the IF tube and employ no bias cell; the IF stages happily run at full current
(limited perhaps by a screen grid series resistor) with no signal. Rogers seems to be unique in their
use of this cell in the AGC circuit, but my search has not been exhaustive.

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I have another observation: Usually the gain of a radio is monotonically controlled by the AVC
voltage, with a more negative voltage reducing gain. In this particular radio, when sweeping the
AGC voltage from ­10V to 0V (overriding the detector with a power supply), the gain first increased
until about AGC= 1V, but beyond that the gain dropped. So, at low AGC voltages, the slope
reverses and the AGC works the wrong way, making the AGC loop a positive feedback loop, which
could cause latching or instability. This reverse slope was very noticeable when using a 6K8
converter, and less noticeable but certainly present with a 6A8 or 6J8 converter. Other radios (a GE
with a 6A8 that is on my bench today, for example) do not show this behaviour. When I used a 6K8
converter tube in the Rogers with the ACGunder control (no bias cell), some signs of unstable
operation were indeed present (low frequency (<100Hz) growling and modulation of the audio). The
6J8 (which it was designed for) and a 6A8 (which had considerably lower gain) behaved properly. I
do not know what causes this reverse slope behaviour, but the bias cell in the AGC circuit would
prevent the AGC from getting into that range of operation.

If you have a radio that needs a bias cell, what should you do? The traditional solution is to solder
in an AA, AAA, N, or button cell. This can impart some hum in a sensitive grid circuit, but it can be
shielded. And it is ugly. Lea Barker offered a more attractive method of hiding a button cell in the old
battery case in the Fall 2007 OVRC newsletter. Or, you can live with the reduced gain and replace
the cell with a short circuit. Other circuit modifications could help restore that gain, but I'd rather
keep the circuit authentic. For the Rogers, I replaced the AGC cell with a short (the only difference I
saw was increased gain with low signals as long as I used a 6J8), and a shielded AAA cell
(wrapped with grounded copper foil, then insulated with heat­shrink tubing) in series with the 6Q7
grid.

The following two pages are reprinted from the March 1927 edition of the U.S. magazine
"Popular Radio". The article, written by James Montagne, describes the famous Canadian
"Interference Patrol" which the Radio Branch of the Departement of Fisheries had set up to
detect the sources of radio static interference then prevalent in larger Canadian cities due to the
multitude of loose electrical connections and unshielded apparatus which had never bothered
anyone before the advent of radio. The photo looks like it was taken here in the Glebe. This
team used a modified Northern Electric model R40 superhet receiver from 1925 and a special
loop antenna in their quest. The radio itself was described in a bit more detail in an article on
this subject in the 2015 Summer edition of the OVRC newsletter. ­ ED

Further reading on this topic is available at

[Link]

Some old equipment is shown at

[Link]

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 Riquewihr 2023
by Richard Brisson

This page and the following contain some of the photographs I took while attending the annual
CHCR Radiofest in Riquewihr, Alsace, France on 6 May 2023.

There were many vendors and visitors from across Europe including a good number from Germany,
Austria, Switzerland, Italy, UK and Spain. A number of buyers (with flashlights!) and sellers were
already doing business at around 5:AM with numerous vintage radios being sold. It was a nice day
with temps in the low 20 deg C.

My main interests were crypto or clandestine radios and there weren’t that many except for a
decent shape A­2 WW2 suitcase radio for which the asking price was 5000 Euros – I understand
that a collector/friend in southern France finally acquired it for 4000 Euros. Everything wrapped up
around lunchtime and from what I understand, sellers were quite pleased with the event given sales
and meeting old friends!

The CHCR (Club Histoire et Collection Radio) is the largest club of radio collectors in France. They
have shared newsletters with the OVRC for many years. Their web site is [Link]

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 Rebuilding a Stewart Warner "King"
by Gord Rabjohn
I received a request from "the web" to
repair a 1932 Stewart­Warner "King"
radio, model 33K. This is an AM­only 6­
tube superheterodyne using 2.5V tubes.
The owner told me that "only 1 tube lit
up".

It has a wonderful spacious chassis with a

lot of elbow­room, nicely laid out, and
mostly original parts, a pleasure to work
on. I powered it up with a 100W bulb in
series with the line, and the bulb lit up
brightly, indicating trouble. I discovered
that the cause of this excessive current
was a shorted (dead short) electrolytic
filter capacitor, one of the few parts that
had been replaced in the past. This is why
the owner commented that "only 1 tube lit
up"; the #80 rectifier tube likely lit up very
brightly under extreme overload. He was
lucky that he did not destroy the power
transformer! Replacing this capacitor (and Figure 1 ­ The King
the two other power supply capacitors) resulted in a
dead radio, but at least it was a dead radio that did not smoke.

Figure 2 ­ Stewart­Warner "King" chassis.

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 I checked tube voltages, and found that the IF stage had no plate voltage. This usually means that
the associated IF transformer is burnt out, and I verified this by measuring the winding's resistance
(it was an open circuit). This early radio uses an unusual IF frequency of 177.5kHz. I opened the IF
can and found a wooden spool with two windings secured with wax; the dead winding was darker
as the wax had melted. I unwound the dead coil (finding at least 3 breaks or weak spots), counting
the carefully wound uniform windings, which added up to about 950 turns! (I was not expecting that
many turns, but the lower­than­usual IF frequency means that more­than­the­usual turns would be
required). The original winding used thin (0.003") wire wrapped with cotton insulation, but all I had
was enamelled #32 copper "magnet" wire. The outside diameter was almost the same so I used it;
my wire offered more copper, less insulation. I was unable to wind it in neat well­organized flat
solenoid layers. The technical term for my technique is "Scramble" winding. The finished coil had
about the right inductance (measured at 14mH), and had much lower DC resistance, but I was
surprised to discover the "Q" of my coil at 200kHz was about half of the other (similar inductance)
winding. I attribute the difference to the close proximity between windings (because of the thin
enamel insulation) causing current crowding. This is why high "Q" coils are made with "Litz" wire
and have wide turn­turn spacing. In principle, the lower Q meant that the IF bandwidth might be a
little wider, but there were still 3 other resonant circuits in the IF, so the difference would not be
noticeable.

Figure 3 ­ IF transformer before Figure 4 ­ IF transformer with one Figure 5 ­ Rewound

repair winding removed IF transformer

The repaired IF transformer brought the radio back to life. However, with a new IF transformer
winding, an IF alignment was essential. When I adjusted the IF trimmer capacitor with a metal
screwdriver, I was literally shocked to discover that the adjustment screws (on the input side of
each transformer) are connected directly to the 300V B+. And, the screw is quite close to the
grounded bracket, so sparks fly if you slip. The trimmer is quite hard to turn, so my plastic
alignment tool was not strong enough. I managed to get it aligned, but I want to share this warning:
When aligning a radio, do not trust that the adjustment screws are at a safe voltage, even in a radio
with a good power transformer. 300V grabs your attention and could be lethal!

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I replaced more capacitors, a missing resistor and the power cord, and the radio works very well.
In fact, it has better than usual sensitivity, and seems to be less sensitive to EMI sources (light
dimmers, switching power supplies) than most radios. I am at a loss as to why the IF transformer
overheated. The "live" trimmer screw is on the B+ side, so shorting it to ground would not have
damaged the winding. I thought that perhaps the #58 IF tube had an internal intermittent short, so I
connected it to an ohmmeter (measuring from plate to everything else) and shook it around, but
found nothing but an open circuit.
I enjoy repairing radios from the early 1930's. By that time, the superheterodyne architecture was
becoming the dominant design approach, and these radios were generally built like tanks and
worked well. The industry had not yet standardized on one design, so there were still differences
that make them interesting. Sometimes even grabbing your attention at unexpected times!

cbc wired broadcasting system

In an article in MARC Radio Age, V.45 No.5 May 2020, Ludwell Sibley mentions:

The CBC, a publicly funded organization, felt obliged to extend radio service to isolated
rural areas lacking useful signals off the air. In 1944 it began installing 25-watt
transmitters, typically bridged onto the network wire pair at remote repeater stations *.
An "L" antenna paralleling open-wire communications and power lines coupled into
them. Useful service could extend 15 to 40 miles along the wires. By 1957 it had installed
54 systems in Alberta, British Columbia, New Brunswick, Ontario, and Quebec. Each had a
callsign "CB(x)(x)." In Ontario most of the stations received the CBC network via a side leg from
a voice-frequency repeater station, from 18 to 111 miles long. An open-wire pair carrying the
network through at voice frequency would radiate the same signal in the broadcast band. Cross-
coupling that would be anathema in college radio was welcomed.

* from: N. R. Olding, "British Columbia Broadcast Relay System, Electronics, Sept. 1944, pp. 92-
97, and [same author] "The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Radio Service in Canada, AIEE
Transactions, Nov. 1957, pp. 558-561.

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 SAWTOOTH
Entertainment from Gord Hamilton

The clues are listed in no particular order. The

answers are all four letter words with some
relationship to our hobby. Find the answers to
the clues and then rearrange them to fill in the
sawtooth pattern, overlapping by two letters,
like SKIP and IPSO in the example. We’ve
supplied the first and last letters.

SAWTOOTH 1

Clues: Non directional; Directional radiation pattern; Part of a foot;

Molecule part; 1000; Outer layer (effect); White, on a resister; Trial
model; Internet help line; Job

SAWTOOTH 2

Clues: Sound pitch; Phone prefix; Combining effect of

frequencies; 10­1; American radio valve; Optical camera device; A
TV field pickup program; State as fact; AM or FM; 10­18

Answers in the Fall Edition

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 CLASSIFIED ADS
Classified ads are available at no charge to OVRC members and must consist
of radio­related items. Send requests to ovrcnews@[Link]. The club
reserves the right to refuse, modify or eventually remove any ad submitted.

FOR SALE: A Sparton (London, Ont.) radio and a Viking (T. Eaton Co.) console
Rescued from waste recyclers.
Price: "a donation to the West Carleton Disaster Relief Fund"
Contact Ted Carron ­ tgcarron@[Link]

FOR SALE: Various radios

Located in Leamington, Ontario.
Contact Mark Simpson
simp9@[Link]

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 FOR SALE: Philips Philetta (1958)
Electrical condition unknown.
Cosmetically good. $25 OBO
FOR SALE:
Contact Craig at
Rogers 3­band console
cavaturn@[Link]
Nicely restored ­
$200 OBO
Reply to
rlatreille@[Link]

FOR SALE: Atwater Kent Model 70

console in beautiful mahogany cabinet
with doors ­ $175.00
Contact Lori Gartner 613­668­6470

Dan Walker is looking for a knob, as [Link] a Marconi 84.

Please contact Dan dan45@[Link]

Attention Owners of Zenith Transoceanics: A collection of 60 in total 7pin tubes, preference to

swap. Many are in original boxes. 1R5, 1T4, 1U4, 1S4, 1S5, 1U5, approx equal quantities each.
Also, 1L6 (1only, Filament continuity good). Will swap for other types. I need mostly 1G4, 1LE3,
1A6, 33. Contact Bob Breuls at 613­549­6537. Please leave a message.

You can check all the current club ads in the"TRADE" section at
[Link]
Can you guess the model of the radio on the front page?

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 OVRC 2023 Meeting Program
Due to constantly changing social constraints, the listing below is
tentative, please visit the club website [Link] monthly for
possible changes.

Date Planned event Presenter(s)

Weds., Jan. 11 Capacitors Gord Rabjphn

Weds., Feb. 8 Resistors Gord Rabjphn

Weds., Mar. 8 The Williamson Amplifier Barry Paulson

Weds., Apr. 12 Radio Repair Clinic Members

Sun., May 28 Club Auction Members

Weds., June 14 30th. Anniversary Celebration Lea Barker

Gord Rabjohn

No meetings in July and August

Weds., Sept. 13 The APG­501 Weapons Radar John Scoles

Sun. Oct. 22 Club Auction Members

Weds., Nov. 8 Memories of the DEW Line Radar Brian Jeffrey

Lea Barker
Weds., Dec 13 AGM ­ On­Line museum unveiling
Gord Rabjohn

Auction dates are tentative due to hall availablility

Check our website for date confirmation

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