Richardson Texas – Club Call K5RWK
Or “Why Do I Hear Strange Things On The Repeater Frequency?” By Chip Coker KD4C Have you ever listened to the repeater frequency and swear you heard stations you didn’t recognize and a strange repeater ID? Well chances are your…
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By Chip Coker KD4C It was great to see all the interest and activity around the Year-End ARISS SSTV event from Dec 26-31. These events are typically done 2-3 times a year and are fairly well advertised in advance. In…
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News, On Air, Satellites, SSTV
This month our own Don Weeks N5SKT will get us up to speed on Parks on the Air (POTA). POTA has taken the HF bands by storm and as of 2021, more than 8,000 hams have registered on the POTA…
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by Tim Bratton K5RA What exactly is the American Radio Relay League Field Day?? Is it a radio communications and emergency preparedness exercise? Is it a radio operating contest? Is it a vehicle to experiment with new technology? Is it…
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By Chip Coker KD4C (source AMSAT) One of the easiest ways to get started with amateur satellites is to start with maybe the most known and prominent one – the International Space Station (ISS). It orbits around 250 miles overhead…
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By Jon Suehiro NN5T You see this image on RWK home page – https://www.k5rwk.org/ . But what does it mean? You also hear about Solar Cycle 25. What do you need to know about the current propagation and solar conditions?…
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By Jon Suehiro NN5T The rest of the year tends to be a busy time if you are into “Radiosport” or contesting. There are several of the better contest events that are coming up in late October, November and early…
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By Chip Coker KD4C As we mentioned earlier in the year, we’ve been hard at work planning some improvements to the K5RWK repeater systems. There are three separate activities in work. Improvements to the main Palisades repeater site Relocation of…
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I am not a Contester – sure I participate in Field Day, but rarely do I make a point of participating in other contests, I rarely find myself with sufficient time to participate in any meaningful way. But with encouragement from a few friends, I committed to participating in a recent contest.
RWK and the Plano Amateur Radio Klub (PARK) conducted a joint balloon launch in July 2021. Details about the balloon: Max Height was over 90,000 feet. Here’s an image taken by the payload camera at 86,000 feet. Max altitude reached…
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