Richardson Texas – Club Call K5RWK
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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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! Why May? We have to wait for favorable air currents (so that the balloon doesn’t end…
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UPDATE: Cancelled! Well, we had hoped that the weather gods would be smiling on us when we planned the RWK POTA outing for tomorrow, but it doesn’t seem to be the case. There’s the possibility of overnight rain to add…
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On the heels of another SSTV Event from the International Space Station, our November 2024 QRV Tech program will take a deeper look at the Slow-Scan TV Mode, how it works, and how you can use it on both HF…
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By Chip Coker KD4C After an extended outage due to equipment failure, the ability of the ARISS (Amateur Radio on the International Space Station) to send SSTV is back! Welcome Back SSTV! Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS)…
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Please join RWK on Monday Nov 11th for our General Meeting. If it’s November, then that means it’s time for our annual Show & Tell Night, where RWK Members show off small projects or radio-related items that they have worked…
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