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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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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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RWK Field Day is this Saturday (June 27) and will again be at the Richardson Emergency Operations Center (EOC) (Plano Rd & Lookout Drive). What Is Field Day? Field Day is the largest amateur radio operating event of the year. …
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We’re moving QRV Tech for this month to next week! Please join RWK on Tuesday June 24th for this month’s QRV Tech. Coming up at the end of June is Field Day 2025. Field Day is amateur radio’s biggest event…
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By Chip Coker KD4C The Richardson Area Balloonatics successfully launched (and mostly successfully recovered) another High-Altitude Balloon (HAB) on May 31 2025. Launch location was Gainesville TX and the landing/recovery location was Celeste TX (about 9 miles north of Farmersville…
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The Richardson Area Balloonatics will be planning to launch a high-altitude weather balloon on Saturday May 31, weather and upper atmosphere conditions permitting. The launch will be from Gainesville (details below), just north of the DFW metroplex, but near apogee…
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By Chip Coker KD4C Thursday Update: The decision has been made to postpone the balloon launch to Saturday 5/31. The driving factors of this decision are the excess amount of rain we have received in the past few days (very…
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By Chip Coker KD4C There are several ways that you can participate in the May 2025 RWK Balloon Launch. If you want to participate from the comfort of your shack, here’s what you can do: Follow the launch on VHF…
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By Chip Coker KD4C After the success of last fall’s RWK High Altitude Balloon Launch, we’re planning to do it again this May 2025! Of high priority is tracking the balloon while it is in flight. Those that participated last…
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One of the recurring payloads on the Richardson-area balloon flights is a DMR single-frequency repeater (SFR). This payload is very effective as a voice repeater, and very simple to access if you have a DMR radio. In various forms, we…
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