Richardson Texas – Club Call K5RWK
Please join RWK on Monday June 9th for our General Meeting. Well June is a busy month for ham radio, and we’ve been doing our part at RWK. We’re just off the DFW Ham Expo. We’ve had another successful High-Altitude…
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By Chip Coker KD4C The Richardson Area Balloonatics successfully launched (and mostly successfully recovered) another High-Altitude Balloon (HAB) on May 31 2025. Launch location was Gainesville TX and the landing/recovery location was Celeste TX (about 9 miles north of Farmersville…
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We’re taking advantage of the launch delay of our High-Altitude Balloon (now planned for May 31st) to again go over what’s on the balloon and how you can participate, either in person or from your shack. We look forward to…
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Please join RWK on Monday May 12th for our General Meeting. It’s antenna month (the few weeks a year that we all have to check and put up HF antennas, before the sweltering heat of the Texas summer sets in),…
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By Chip Coker KD4C Thursday Update: The decision has been made to postpone the balloon launch to Saturday 5/31. The driving factors of this decision are the excess amount of rain we have received in the past few days (very…
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Larry KI5UXC is going to talk about (and possibly demonstrate) the benefits of adding some power to your signal by using a linear amplifier. While there have been some advances in linear amplifiers recently (especially in solid state amplifiers), using…
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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 3rd), similar to our successful launch and recovery from last…
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By Chip Coker KD4C After the success of last fall’s RWK High Altitude Balloon Launch, we’re planning to do it again this May 2025! Of high priority is tracking the balloon while it is in flight. Those that participated last…
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One of the recurring payloads on the Richardson-area balloon flights is a DMR single-frequency repeater (SFR). This payload is very effective as a voice repeater, and very simple to access if you have a DMR radio. In various forms, we…
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For the RWK March 2025 General Meeting, we had Craig KM6LYW on to show off his DigiPi software, which combines most Ham Radio digital modes into a single, compact, easy-to-use, Raspberry Pi-based solution. For QRV Tech this month, we thought…
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