General Meeting – April 2025 – RWK Spring HA Balloon Launch & Solar Power for Your Shack

Please join RWK on Monday Apr 14th for our General Meeting. 

Our April Meeting will have two short topics instead of one big program.  Hopefully most of you know that RWK is doing another High-Altitude Balloon Launch sometime soon (hopefully May 3^rd), similar to our successful launch and recovery from last fall. So we will give an overview of what we are planning for that launch and how you can participate, either at the launch or by working the various payloads (and earning the soon-to-be-prestigious “worked all payloads” award).

After that, I will be giving a short “work-in-progress” on a project to run my shack radios totally off of solar/battery power.  Until I get a decent hail storm and can replace my roof, whole-house solar is out for me, so this is the best that I have come up with. It might be something that you want to consider as well.

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 do not want to 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

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

Meeting ID: 947 3774 0567
Passcode: 081381