[Milsurplus] Cold War Museum-Canada

[Rich Yost]

My wife and I visited the Diefenbunker last Sept and what a fun and interesting trip. I met Nick, ve3owv after speaking a year or two with him on the air. I spoke with Nick one night on 40m in August on the Ranger they had just gotten on the air He gave us a great personal tour of the radio areas complete with in depth stories of the whole lot. We then took the guided tour that went thru all the levels and history. A wonderful trip.

Definitely worth trip if your around that area. Also a side pitch is that Ottawa has a fantastic military museum, Canadian War Museum in the city that's also worth the trip - http://www.warmuseum.ca/home/

It was worth the 7 hours or so each way for me.

Rich
n2ry



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 From: Ralph Cameron <ramcam at magma.ca>
To: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net 
Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2013 4:58 PM
Subject: [Milsurplus] Cold War Museum-Canada
 

Canada's only _Cold War Museum l_ocated in Carp near Ottawa ON will be on the air this coming week end in what is called "Doors Open Ottawa". The amateur radio station _VE3CWM _will be operating 20M around 14.025 cw and 14.165 SSB for those wanting to contact our belwo ground station. The station is located about 25 ft underground while the four storey complex extends to 100 ft. below ground level. It was built when the threat of a Russian nuclear attack was threatened. Purpose was to accomodate the Prime Minister and the main government functionaries. Since the Prime minister at the time was John  Diefenbaker, the bunker was named after him. Ironically, he felt his place in time of hostilities was with his wife, so he never even visited the place. It was meant to survive a close by nuclear blast.

VE3CWM runs about 500w to a variety of vertical and fixed dipole antennas. Usually the Morse code is a great attractant to the youngsters who visit and even moreso when we get them to send their name with a key and buzzer. We also have a room full of ex WWII equipment and when you consider it could house 535 personnel when active and could survive for 30 days completely self contained, its amazing it has survived. It is open 7 days a week and makes an interesting tour if visiting the Ottawa area. You can even sit on a shock mounted toilet, if the mood moves you.

For those interested  www.Diefenbunker.ca.

Ralph
VE3BBM

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