General Meeting – August 2026 – Antenna Windloading

Please join RWK on Monday August 10th for our General Meeting. 

If you’ve ever wanted to put up a commercially-produced outside antenna and have looked at the antenna specs, you may have seen a number for “Wind Loading”. What is this and why is it important to a safe antenna installation? See why you need to pay attention to wind loading and how you should take it into account when planning your antenna installations.

In-person VE Testing begins at 5:30 and the RWK Social Hour begins at 6pm.  Please enjoy coffee and cookies and chat with other members!  If you have radio questions, please be sure and stop by our Radio Operating position – we’ll try to show you some new things and help you get answers.  At 7pm we will begin our main program. 

As usual, the meeting will be In-Person and the main program will be simulcast on Zoom for those that cannot attend in-person.  We will also have a recording available on the K5RWK.org website after the meeting is over.

Please wear your RWK Nametag!  We have lots of members and everyone needs a little help in matching callsigns to smiling faces.  If you can’t find (or don’t have) your RWK nametag, we will have blank paper nametags and you can order a replacement for a nominal charge.  I’d like everyone to introduce themselves to at least two members that they haven’t previously met face-to-face!

Meeting Location: St. Barnabas Church, 1220 West Belt Line Road, Richardson TX 75080.  Park in the rear parking lot and enter from the rear.  Click this for the map.

We look forward to seeing you on Monday!

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If you can’t come in person and want to attend on Zoom, you can use the following link:

Topic: RWK Social Hour/General Meeting Zoom invitation

Time: RWK Main Program starts at 7:00 PM

Join Zoom Meeting

https://zoom.us/j/94737740567?pwd=QllKd1Ava0lma3FtbDVwdDZKVGlMUT09

Meeting ID: 947 3774 0567
Passcode: 081381

Meeting Recording

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