Richardson Texas – Club Call K5RWK
The Richardson Wireless Klub will be launching a high-altitude weather balloon with several pounds of radios, cameras, and other assorted near-space junk this coming Saturday, October 24th at 9:00AM! The launch site will be Oak Point Park in Plano. The…
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Tonight we will be talking about Global Navigation Satellite Services (GNSS) including GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, BeiDou, and more. We will discuss how they work by looking at their orbits and what signals they send out along with the mathematical equations that…
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After three months of oppressive heat, plans are coming together for another RWK Parks-On-The-Air (POTA) outing to the Spring Creek Forest State Preserve in Garland. Spring Creek Forest Preserve US-4423 is the closest POTA-eligible location to Richardson (and only about…
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This year marks the 54th Annual Christmas Parade for the City of Richardson. RWK will again be assisting in parade communications and we’re looking for volunteers. This year’s parade is Saturday morning Dec 5th at 9am and is on the…
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Please join RWK on Monday October 12th for our General Meeting. Chasing DX (far away) stations is one of the more popular (and competitive) aspects of ham radio, but it can be daunting to the newcomer or recently-upgraded Technician. But…
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Please join RWK on Monday September 14th for our General Meeting. Most hams think that ham radio just about voice and digital modes (CW is a digital mode!), but hams have been experimenting with still and moving images (Television) for…
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WSPR stands for Weak Signal Propagation Reporter and is one of the Fixed-Tone modes in the same family as FT-8/4 and JT65. However, it is specifically designed for very slow, low data-rate signaling to help assess how radio propagation is…
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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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