Due to the risk of safe assembly during these unusual times, the Ottawa Valley Mobile Radio Club will not be offering the usual September start for their Amateur Radio Course. If circumstances change for the better, we may consider offering the course in January. In the meantime, the OVMRC recommends folks register for an on-line…

Hi Everybody, I suppose this could have been written as an article for the June Rambler, but that might be a bit late for the tale I'm about to tell which is my 24-hour experiment in running a Class 1E/QRP/Battery+Solar station for 2020 Field Day.  In the 42 years of holding an Amateur Certificate, I've…

The Rambler for May 2020 is now available here.

Hi folks, This weeks AMSAT news included an item advising that Stanford University is now dedicating its "folding@home" distributed computing application to determining the protein binding mechanism of the COVID-19 virus which, it is hoped, would lead to development of a vaccine or other mitigating therapy.  You can find the link easily enough by searching…

The Science and Technology Museum has issued a notice to the General Public that its facilities are closed until further notice, presumably due to the COVID-19 virus containment situation. As all facilities are closed, this includes the OVMRC meeting room, therefore the March OVMRC meeting is cancelled by authority relayed to me by Norm, VE3LC,…