Richardson Texas – Club Call K5RWK
By Joe Hodgkins KI5O With wonderful consideration from Doug KD5OUG and direction from Grant W5XJ, I was fortunate to take intopossession an incomplete Knight T-60 Transmitter. Upon receipt of the contents in an original Knight box, I foundthe following correspondence…
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Our Annual Show & Tell Night allows our members to “show off” to the entire klub something that they’ve been working on – a kit, radio, antenna, modification, or some other cool radio project – over the past year. In…
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Our guest speaker will be Alan Wolke W2AEW. Alan is an Electrical Engineer and has been a has been a Field Applications Engineer for Tektronix since 2006 (so he might know a thing or two about test equipment). He was…
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By John Slaughter WB5HSI Recently I was faced with trying to repair a battery-operated device and had the usual problem of how to make connections to the battery. Normally a spot welder is used to weld nickel strips to the…
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By Chip Coker KD4C As we mentioned earlier in the year, we’ve been hard at work planning some improvements to the K5RWK repeater systems. There are three separate activities in work. Improvements to the main Palisades repeater site Relocation of…
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Greetings! It’s been a minute, but welcome to the new and improved RWK Chawed Rag. When I accepted the job of RWK President, one of the tasks that I took on was to “reinvent” The Chawed Rag for the year…
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I am not a Contester – sure I participate in Field Day, but rarely do I make a point of participating in other contests, I rarely find myself with sufficient time to participate in any meaningful way. But with encouragement from a few friends, I committed to participating in a recent contest.
Our guest speaker will be Dr. Ed Fong (WB6IQN). As many of you will remember from his presentation from Feb 2020, he is the inventor of the DBJ-1 and DBJ-2 antenna that were featured in the February 2003 and March…
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Increasing the interest and participation in amateur radio of those younger than 21 remains a primary effort of ARRL. Underscoring that focus is ARRL’s annual bestowing of its premier award, the Hiram Percy Maxim Memorial Award, on a young member…
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RWK and the Plano Amateur Radio Klub (PARK) conducted a joint balloon launch in July 2021. Details about the balloon: Max Height was over 90,000 feet. Here’s an image taken by the payload camera at 86,000 feet. Max altitude reached…
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