Richardson Texas – Club Call K5RWK
Please join RWK on Monday August 10th for our General Meeting. If you’ve ever wanted to put up a commercially-produced outside antenna and have looked at the antenna specs, you may have seen a number for “Wind Loading”. What is…
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Please join RWK on Monday July 13th for our General Meeting. With Field Day behind us, it’s time to focus on getting through the summer heat and taking advantage of the cooler moments to put up/fix/tweak our HF antenna installations…
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By Chip Coker KD4C RWK Field Day was Saturday (June 27) at the Richardson Emergency Operations Center (EOC) (Plano Rd & Lookout Drive). Setup, operating, and overall Field Day was similar to previous recent RWK field days. Overall a (mostly)…
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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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Field Day is amateur radio’s biggest event of the year, and hams new and old look forward to it every year. At this QRV Tech session, you will find out what exactly is “Field Day” and how it got to…
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Please join RWK on Monday June 8th for our General Meeting. There’s a lot going on in June at RWK! Come learn about this weekend’s DFW Ham Expo (and how you should be shopping). Field Day 2026 is in less…
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The Richardson Area Balloonatics / Richardson Wireless Klub will be launching a high-altitude weather balloon with several pounds of radio and camera payloads on Saturday May 30th from the North Texas area. At peak altitude, we expect the radio horizon…
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Track the balloon in real-time using the screens below (there’s a link to the full-size version in the table below) Balloon Path and Telemetry Hi-Definition Images Full Payload List Payload Callsign Frequency Participate SSTV+Wenet / SSDV KE5GDB SSTV: 433.0MHz Robot…
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Many hams have come to appreciate and rely on a simple piece of software that provides valuable information at a glance – HamClock. But recently there’s been a change to the long-term availability of HamClock and we will have to…
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May is Technology month here at RWK, and we wanted to dig a little deeper on something that you might not have heard about. Many of you saw the announcement of a new Flex Radio (the Aurora) that transmits 500…
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