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          Chip Coker KD4C
          April 15, 2024
        
        
          
Our April 2024 QRV Tech program will be a discussion of what you need to know and do for your first POTA (Parks on the Air) outing. Let’s get prepared for this weekend’s RWK POTA outing at Spring Creek Forest…
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          Chip Coker KD4C
          April 9, 2024
        
        
          
          
UPDATE: CANCELLED 🙂 The POTA Weather gods are not smiling on us.  After hoping all week that the weather forecast would slide to the right, unfortunately it has not happened.  There is a 70+% chance of widespread rain from early…
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          Chip Coker KD4C
          March 12, 2024
        
        
          
          
We had a fun park outing on March 10 working the Youth On The Air (YOTA) Contest Round 1 from our POTA Park (Spring Creek Forest Preserve K-4423 in Garland just east of Richardson). Joe N1JOE, Ron K5SUS, Logan N9QZ,…
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          Chip Coker KD4C
          March 7, 2024
        
        
          
          
RWK Youth Members get ready to dive into the excitement of the 2024 YOTA Contest! We’re thrilled to announce that our youth members will be taking part in the inaugural round. Join us as we gather at Park K-4423 to…
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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
          December 8, 2023
        
        
          
          
By Chip Coker KD4C Way back in 2021, we had a plan to upgrade our K5RWK UHF Analog repeater and move it to a better location. Well, after COVID and some other extended delays, I can report that it’s now…
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          Chip Coker KD4C
          October 27, 2023
        
        
          
          
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! At long last, the ARISS Team is conducting tests of the…
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          Chip Coker KD4C
          October 13, 2023
        
        
          
Our October QRV Tech program will be on navigating the POTA website and logging POTA contacts.  To continue our month focus on Logging and QSLing, Shawn is going to show the specific things that are needed for a POTA operation….
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          Chip Coker KD4C
          September 29, 2023
        
        
          
          
After a way-too-hot summer, 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…
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          Chip Coker KD4C
          September 27, 2023
        
        
          
          
By Josh Barfield N4NZ Last month I attended a conference in Las Vegas, which gave me the opportunity to activate POTA park K-4443. The Old Las Vegas Mormon Fort State Park is about 3.16 acres and sits roughly 3 miles…
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