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Chip Coker KD4C
February 27, 2024
Our March RWK Meeting will be on “Making Home-Brew Yagi Design Simple, and a Simple Low-cost VHF/UHF Design.” with our old friend John Portune W6NBC. Hams tend to fear building their own Yagi beams, thinking that only professional radio engineers…
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Chip Coker KD4C
February 20, 2024
Our February 2024 QRV Tech program will be a redux of the Software Defined Radio overview from July 2023 (which didn’t get recorded due to a zoom issue). So we’re going to do it again and record it this time!…
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Chip Coker KD4C
February 20, 2024
Charlie Harris KF5DBN went SK on 11 February 2024 after a short illness in Dallas. He was 83. Born in Tulsa, OK. Charlie lived all over the country during his training as a cardiologist. He practiced in many places but…
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Chip Coker KD4C
February 1, 2024
It is with great pleasure that I was privileged to present the 2023 Warren Bruene Award to Josh Barfield N4NZ at the annual Richardson Wireless Klub President’s Dinner. Josh has been a tremendous asset to the club in his few…
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Chip Coker KD4C
January 17, 2024
By Chip Coker KD4C *** RWK POTA Winter Field Day is Cancelled *** We had planned on a POTA-style Winter Field Day 2024 at our POTA Park-of-choice – Spring Creek Forest Preserve (in Garland – about 6 miles east of…
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Chip Coker KD4C
January 16, 2024
Our January 2024 QRV Tech program will be Shawn KI5PXG and Adam KE5MMK’s “Antenna Shoot-out”. They recently compared 3 antennas at the same time and location to see if there were any advantages of one over the others. Come see…
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Chip Coker KD4C
January 13, 2024
Our February RWK Meeting will be on Locating Power Line Noise (and other RFI) with is Jeff Stuparits, W4DD. Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) can be generated from many different devices and can decrease or totally eliminate your ability to hear…
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Chip Coker KD4C
December 31, 2023
Marshall Levett KI5YIA passed away unexpectedly on December 22, 2023. He was 75. Marshall lived in Austin. We first met Marshall when the RWK VE Team tested him for Technician, which he passed with an almost perfect score. This was…
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Chip Coker KD4C
December 21, 2023
If you haven’t heard, we’re having an actual President’s Dinner on Sunday Jan 7th 2024 at 5pm. Doug Kilgore has again approached Aboca’s Italian Grill (the site of the last RWK Dinners in 2020 and 2023) and they will…
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Chip Coker KD4C
December 13, 2023
Our December QRV Tech program will be on Winlink. What is Winlink? Why do I need or want to use it? We will explain all about the Winlink system and get started with Winlink on VHF and on HF and…
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