Richardson Texas – Club Call K5RWK
Please join RWK on Monday October 13th for our General Meeting. This month we’re going to talk about (and show) Mobile Radio Installation. There’s a wide variety of vehicles and radio mounting styles, and there’s no “right or wrong” way to…
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Here’s The Chawed Rag for Sept 2025. We’ve got a chance for you to voice your opinion on HOA restrictions, obsession about Balloons!, an upcoming SSTV event, Foxhunts are Alive and Well at RWK, belated Field Day 2025 results, our RWK Meeting Video Archive is back, call for 2026 Officers, the usual upcoming events and news and so much more. Hope you enjoy! – KD4C
One of the biggest complaints about the popular FT-8/FT-4 digital modes is that the exchange is short and fixed, and there’s no way to add to the QSO. What if I told you that there was a mode that used…
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Please join RWK on Monday September 8th for our General Meeting. This month we will be talking all about APRS (the Automatic Packet Reporting System). Andy Smolenski KI5YLX from over at Metrocrest (MARS) will be here to tell (remind?) us…
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The August 23rd High Altitude Balloon Launch (#7!) is in the books, and it was a good one. The balloon was launched shortly after 9am on a bright and somewhat hot Saturday morning from Old Celina Park in Celina TX,…
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During tomorrow night’s QRV session, we will learn about NOAA’s GOES (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite) satellite system and how you can decode its transmissions for yourself. We will talk about what GOES is, how the data is channelized and transmitted,…
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Please join RWK on Monday August 11th for our General Meeting. You had to be living under a rock for the past month not to know what the biggest story in Texas has been: The Guadelupe River Flood Event on…
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By Chip Coker KD4C Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) announces an SSTV event scheduled to begin on Monday, July 14 at 09:15 UTC and to end Sunday, July 20 at 18:00 UTC. Downlink transmissions will be at…
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Please join RWK on Monday July 14th for our General Meeting. June was a busy month for RWK. Between balloon launches and Field Day, we have a lot to cover. And due to a last-minute reschedule, we will be pulling…
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The Richardson Area Balloonatics (Richardson Wireless Klub) will be launching a high-altitude weather balloon from Celina TX on Sunday July 6th. This is a “flight of leftovers” launch with the goal of using ~125ft^3 (down from 300ft^3) of helium leftover from a…
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