Feb 15, 1965 - Feb 15, 2025 - 60th anniversary of Canadian Flag, and what better time than now!

Will a computer from 1999 Radio Shack still work in 2025? Well, sort of...

1928 Hartley transmitter test

1938 QST QSL40 6L6 transmitter

Taking a LORAN A fix on 1850 kHz

Nixie tube heaven

Panasonic HC-X2000 4K 1fps x24 speed, 4:2:2: 10-bit colour

Panasonic HC-X2000 Time Lapse test: 4K 1fps x60 speed, 4:2:2 10-bit colour

1970 Yaesu FTdx-560 narrow band audio punches through QRM

Time capsule: 1970 Yaesu FTdx-560

Time capsule: 1970 Yaesu FTdx-560

Yaesu FTdx-560 puts out 400 watts pep and is loafing along, contrary to reviewers

Yaesu FTdx-560 #1 - completely restored

1912 loose coupler inductive tuner 3000-300 meters crystal radio

1982 Sony HVC-2400 Trinicon NTSC TV raw camera output converted to 1080P digital, no processing

Radiola 60 daytime reception after full alignment (expect every 10kc at night)

Radiola 60 world’s first AC superheterodyne radio from 1928

True AM using 6 kHz RX filter in TX mode, no ALC to set carrier, 600 W pep out Paragon & Hercules II

Computers here, there, everywhere: Atari music is "Gigatex" by Jochen Hippel (Mad Max)

WBEN 930 nighttime field strength study: 46 uV/m to 232 uV/m slow variation 10 pm EDT July 4, 2022

WBEN 930 daytime field strength study = 465 uV/m 2:30 pm EDT July 4, 2022 in Toronto, ON.

WHISPER QUIET Collins 30S-1 first test on 115V, CW (2000 volts HV) mode

Collins 32S-3 with Collins SM-2 microphone 2 kHz max BW

Ontario Science Centre VE3OSC amateur radio station recreation - how many remember?

Easter 2020

April 19, 2020

E. F. Johnson Viking Ranger transmitter from 1955 at VE3IKU

In-band HD IBOC AM radio interference from 530 CHLO to 550 WGR Buffalo - read description below

1000-watt AM shortwave transmitter

Childhood memories of Toronto 1970s - 1050 CHUM AM radio, CN Tower, Lighthouse

ON THE AIR: UV-204 TPTG 250-watt output power oscillator-transmitter from 1928 ARRL

PREVIEW: UV-204 TPTG 250-watt stable VFO power oscillator-transmitter from 1928 ARRL

This was amateur radio in 1919 ! Asynchronous rotary gap quenched spark transmitter.

This was amateur radio in 1928 ! UX-210 triode Hartley transmitter.

Meissner Phono Oscillator 10mW full+100% mod. HIFI AM transmitter from Alfred Powell Morgan book

James Millen 812A push-pull rig +130% AM plate modulation! 3885 kc AM PHONE

James Millen 812A push-pull rig. Getting ready for 3885 AM phone.

3885 7290 AM phone amateur radio equipment being organized at VE3IKU

High magnification moon tour April 17, 2021 9:00pm EDT

Amateur radio in 1920 - spark, some brave CW, but mostly spark ruled the day.

W1AW and completed 1920s working amateur radio station

101-year old Adams Morgan Paragon RA-10 regenerative receiver back on 160 meters!

1938 - Using a spark transmitter to call for help!

Scalar ring on OK1DFC septum feed at 2304MHz S-band

Measuring noise figure of microwave components S-band 2304MHz EME

Lifetime goal achieved!! EME echos received VE3IKU CW 2304MHz S-band

Complete system details of 2304MHz S-band EME system used at VE3IKU

SHOUT OUTS 2304MHz S-band Earth-Moon-Earth EME VE3IKU received around the world Jan. 2021

HURRAY! 1st Earth-moon-earth 3m dish VE3IKU Toronto as received by VE6TA Edmonton, 2304 MHz S-band

B&K model 1076 TV Analyst 1960s test pattern

Earth-moon-earth 1 KW 2304 MHz amplifier soon to be sending signals to the moon for return echos

General Radio GR-1236 IF amplifier EME moon noise meter

Ultra rare Apollo era General Radio GR-1236 IF amplifier for moon noise measurement

Apollo S band 2304MHz 3 meter EME dish - ready for 250 mesh tightening tie-down straps!

When AM radio was king. Demo of actual sound, audio processing, and tribute to Leonard R. Kahn.

Radios, Noise, The Big Bang, and God

Reliably still tracking Voyager in 2020 from 15 billion km away!!

#STAYHOME project, part 5: Open wire feeder transmission line tensioner board, and Smith Chart

#STAYHOME project, part 4: Low power test of open wire feeder transmission line length

#STAYHOME project, part 2: Let's build an open wire feeder transmission line!!