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 – June 2023 – Let’s Build A Balun
It’s RWK tradition to have a short build project as part of Field Day. This year, based on the recent April 2023 General Meeting presentation by our friend John Portune W6NBC, we’re going to build a simple 1:1 Balun with…
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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
HamClock – A Shack’s Best Friend
By Chip Coker KD4C What if I told you that there was once a big wall-mounted device (called a GeoChron) that cost hundreds, even thousands, of dollars, and that many hams coveted it as the ultimate shack accessory. And what…
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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
FreeDV – There’s A New HF Mode In Town
By Chip Coker KD4C We’ve had Digital Voice modes on VHF for years, as well as other digital modes on HF that are very popular (FT-8/4, PSK, even RTTY). We’ve had Digital Broadcast TV since 2009 and digital satellite radio…
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Getting Started With Foxhunting
By Chip Coker KD4C In January (2023), I was invited by the Metrocrest Amateur Radio Society (MARS) in Carrollton to talk about Foxhunting and 3+ years that the RWK has held weekly foxhunts. They were kind enough to record it…
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RWK Parks-On-The-Air Outing for Techs Coming March 18th
Plans are coming together for another Parks-On-The-Air (POTA) outing to the Spring Creek Forest State Preserve in Garland. Texas State Park K-4423 is the closest POTA-eligible location to Richardson (and only about 10 minutes east of here). Our RWK POTA…
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The Asus BR1100C “Pi-Beater” – How to Dual-Boot it to Boot
by Mike Jahrig KG5P This month I’d like to talk about the so-called “Pi-beater” I’m not sure where the term originated, but it was probably by an RWK member on the RWK groups.io blog. In case you have been living…
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