Richardson Texas – Club Call K5RWK
Our program this month is Radio Contesting: Move to the Next Level by Gary Sutcliffe W9XT. Gary is an avid contester and writes a column for the ARRL National Contest Journal (NCJ). If you’ve participated in a minor way but…
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Our program this month is Antenna Analyzers – What’s Really Going On by RWK Member Kevin Grantham N5KRG. Smart Hams use antenna analyzers every day to save work while building and tuning antennas – but few know what’s going on…
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Our program this month is Making Ferrite Toroid Baluns for Dummies by John Portune W6NBC. Few hams know how to select a toroid and know how many turns on it to make a 1:1, 4:1 or 9:1 balun. The radio…
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Our program this month is Choosing the Right Field Antenna with Tom Witherspoon K4SWL. Tom has a long history with making contacts in the field (I think we would call it portable) and has experience with a wide variety of…
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Our program this month is a legend in ham radio – Dr. Bob Heil K9EID. Bob has a long and storied career in the music business but he is an Audio Engineer at his core, and he has a “formula”…
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RWK held an actual live, in-person President’s Dinner on January 8, 2023! While that shouldn’t be big news, it has been three years since we were able to hold such an event (the last President’s Dinner was in 2020), primarily…
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Please join RWK on Monday December 12th for our December General Meeting. We’re going to have an expanded RWK Holiday Hospitality Hour with lots of sweets and treats, and coffee, hot cocoa and other holiday beverages. Andrew KE5GDB will be…
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Our annual Show & Tell Night is coming up in November, and this will be the first one in person in a couple of years. Members show off small projects that they have worked on. We will have 5-6 projects…
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As we head into the fall contesting season, our presenter will be Tim Duffy K3LR (you may know him as the head of DX Engineering) on Getting Started with Contesting. Tim is an avid and very experienced contester (and has…
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Our guest will be your illustrious flunkee President presenting “DMR and Fusion and HotSpots, Oh My!”, basically everything Digital VHF/UHF. We will review how we got here, with the history of analog VHF and why we have digital VHF/UHF. We…
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