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General Meeting
Chip Coker KD4C
April 6, 2024
There’s a BIG EVENT coming on Monday! Please join RWK on Monday April 8th for our General Meeting. (oh yeah, and there might be an Eclipse too) Our April RWK Meeting will be on “Receiver Performance – Signals and Noise” with…
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Chip Coker KD4C
February 27, 2024
Our March RWK Meeting will be on “Making Home-Brew Yagi Design Simple, and a Simple Low-cost VHF/UHF Design.” with our old friend John Portune W6NBC. Hams tend to fear building their own Yagi beams, thinking that only professional radio engineers…
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Chip Coker KD4C
January 13, 2024
Our February RWK Meeting will be on Locating Power Line Noise (and other RFI) with is Jeff Stuparits, W4DD. Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) can be generated from many different devices and can decrease or totally eliminate your ability to hear…
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Chip Coker KD4C
December 21, 2023
If you haven’t heard, we’re having an actual President’s Dinner on Sunday Jan 7th 2024 at 5pm. Doug Kilgore has again approached Aboca’s Italian Grill (the site of the last RWK Dinners in 2020 and 2023) and they will…
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Chip Coker KD4C
November 27, 2023
Our December RWK Meeting will be an RWK Holiday Hospitality Hour similar to what we did last December. We’ll have a selection of Treats and Hot beverages and round table seating. We will do our usual meeting announcements and then…
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Chip Coker KD4C
October 16, 2023
For November, it’s time for the 2023 annual K5RWK Show and Tell meeting. You’ve been working on that special ham project all year/month/week. Please share your success or lessons learned. We would like you to present it at the meeting….
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Chip Coker KD4C
September 26, 2023
Our October RWK Meeting addresses a topic that most hams run across soon after upgrading to General Class – Logging and QSLing. You get to suffer hear me talk about the history of logging and confirming contacts before we had…
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Chip Coker KD4C
September 1, 2023
Our September RWK Meeting should be an interesting one. We have Al Ward W5LUA from the North Texas Microwave Society (NTMS) presenting on EME Adventures on the Microwave Bands. For you new hams, EME stands for “Earth Moon Earth”. Yes,…
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Chip Coker KD4C
August 11, 2023
Our guest speaker for the August meeting will be Mike Ritz W7VO. His talk this month will be HF Noise Mitigation. An educational seminar to help both new and experienced amateurs who are on HF and finding themselves plagued with…
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Chip Coker KD4C
July 6, 2023
Our guest speaker for the July meeting will be Ed Fong (WB6IQN). His talk this month will be the DBJ-UHF 5dB gain base antenna (US patent – 2,124,424). This antenna was featured in CQ Magazine in Summer of 2012. The…
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