RWK Field Day 2023
By Chip Coker KD4C Plans are coming together for Field Day 2023 on Sat June 24. We’re going to make it fun for RWK. Although Field Day is not a traditional “contest”, many clubs treat it as such. with a…
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QRV Tech – May 2023 – Oscilloscope Usage in Ham Radio
Shawn KI5PXG will be showing oscilloscope basics for hams, including audio analysis of your microphone, signal analysis (frequency and amplitude measurements), and time-domain analysis of signal quality to diagnose modulation or distortion issues. If you want more, here’s an in-depth…
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The Chawed Rag – April 2023
Here’s The Chawed Rag for April 2023. We’ve got Earth and Space Weather, a foxhunt milestone, 6 Meters, HamClock, a new RWK learning series, expanding your POTA antenna to 40M, time sync for portable FT-8, group foxhunt fun, and so much more. Hope you enjoy! – KD4C
The Chawed Rag – March 2023
Here’s The Chawed Rag for March 2023. We’ve got some fun past and future events, an upcoming foxhunting milestone, a new Digital Voice mode for HF, an improvement for a Wolf River Coil, upcoming events, Bits & Bytes, and so much more. Hope you enjoy! – KD4C
The Chawed Rag – February 2023
Here’s The Chawed Rag for February 2023. We’ve got February updates, a Spring POTA event and an antenna made for it, Straight Key Century Club, 4th Annual Go-Kit Challenge, another lost ham radio balloon(?), Winter Field Day wrap-up, Dual-booting a “Pi-Beater”, upcoming events and so much more. Hope you enjoy! – KD4C
The Chawed Rag – January 2023
Here’s The Chawed Rag for January 2023. We’ve got great propagation, Winter Field Day, President’s Dinner Highlights, the Warren Bruene Award for 2022, RWK Elmer of the Year, part 3 of KG5P’s Pico project, lots of upcoming events, a new dish(!), and an easy vertical for POTA or your backyard, and so much more. Hope you enjoy! – KD4C
RWK President’s Dinner 2023
RWK held an actual live, in-person President’s Dinner on January 8, 2023! While that shouldn’t be big news, it has been three years since we were able to hold such an event (the last President’s Dinner was in 2020), primarily…
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The Chawed Rag – November 2022
Here’s The Chawed Rag for November 2022. We’ve got a preview of our December “Holiday Snacks” meeting. the 50th Richardson Christmas Parade, a look back at our year of RWK meetings, Chris White builds a “cootie” key paddle , KG5P continues with a Pico W, lots of coming events, and so much more. Hope you enjoy! – KD4C
Volunteer For The 2022 Christmas Parade
This year marks the 50th Annual Christmas Parade for the City of Richardson. RWK will again be assisting in parade communications and we’re looking for volunteers. This year’s parade is Saturday morning Dec 3rd and is on the East side…
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The Chawed Rag – October 2022
Here’s The Chawed Rag for October 2022 (it’s still October, right?). We’ve got more on Show & Tell night, QRP “Foxhunting” on HF, the History of the RWK Repeater, an inspiring story of a new ham (and RWK member!), Chris White builds a “brick” for his QRP KX3, KG5P shows us a Pico W, lots of coming events, and so much more. Hope you enjoy! – KD4C