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Andrew Koenig KE5GDB
August 21, 2024
By Andrew Koenig KE5GDB The Richardson Wireless Klub (RWK) and Denton County ARA (DCARA) will be launching a high-altitude weather balloon on Saturday, September 21st. The launch site is to be determined and will be picked based on winds aloft…
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Andrew Koenig KE5GDB
August 19, 2024
By Andrew Koenig KE5GDB In this article we will discuss how to receive transmissions from a radiosonde running the RS41ng firmware and transmitting the Horus Binary v2 protocol. Twice a day NOAA launches radiosondes into the upper atmosphere to make…
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Chip Coker KD4C
August 5, 2024
Our August RWK Meeting will be an update on the PACSAT Project, an upcoming amateur radio payload soon to be in orbit. Our own Bill Reed NX5R has been involved with AMSAT for several years and is the Design Team…
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Chip Coker KD4C
July 7, 2024
Please join RWK on Monday July 8th for our General Meeting. Our July RWK Meeting will be on “Katherine’s Radio Adventures”. Our own (and newly-elected President of the Texas A&M Radio Club W5AC) Katherine KT5KMF has been on some interesting…
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Chip Coker KD4C
July 1, 2024
By Chip Coker KD4C For just a few $, you can build your own RadioSonde Tracking Receiver setup and participate in tracking the twice-daily (0000 and 1200 UTC) launches of radiosondes by NOAA. These radiosondes transmit at around 403 MHz…
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Chip Coker KD4C
June 10, 2024
By Chip Coker KD4C Update: Thanks to all that participated in RWK Field Day at the Richardson EOC today! We had 69 Members and Guests! I guess everyone wanted to be in the A/C… Don’t forget, Field Day has a…
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Chip Coker KD4C
June 5, 2024
This is one of the more popular contests in the area, due to the fairly large group of VHF/UHF enthusiasts around DFW. It’s easy to participate starting with 6 Meter activity which should be occurring at least several hours on…
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Chip Coker KD4C
June 4, 2024
Please join RWK on Monday June 10th for our General Meeting. Our June RWK Meeting will be on “RWK Field Day – Past and Present”. We’ll share some of the history of RWK’s past history with Field Day going back…
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Chip Coker KD4C
May 9, 2024
Please join RWK on Monday May 13th for our General Meeting. Our May RWK Meeting will be on “My QRP Obsession” with our own Kevin Grantham N5KRG. Kevin will talk about how he got into QRP operating with a discussion…
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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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