Richardson Texas – Club Call K5RWK
By Chip Coker KD4C What if I told you that there was once a big wall-mounted device (called a GeoChron) that cost hundreds, even thousands, of dollars, and that many hams coveted it as the ultimate shack accessory. And what…
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by Bob Hill KG5WRY In a previous article I wrote about a low cost quick deploy portable antenna (in the February 2023 Chawed Rag). I described building the telescoping 16.5 foot vertical antenna and the ground spike mount (which has…
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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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Here’s The Chawed Rag for March 2023. We’ve got some fun past and future events, an upcoming foxhunting milestone, a new Digital Voice mode for HF, an improvement for a Wolf River Coil, upcoming events, Bits & Bytes, and so much more. Hope you enjoy! – KD4C
By Chip Coker KD4C We’ve had Digital Voice modes on VHF for years, as well as other digital modes on HF that are very popular (FT-8/4, PSK, even RTTY). We’ve had Digital Broadcast TV since 2009 and digital satellite radio…
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by Mike Jahrig KG5P I bought a 40-10 meter Wolf River Coil vertical antenna at the last Ham-Com about 3 years ago. I have forgotten what I paid for it, but it was less than the current price of $130….
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By Chip Coker KD4C In January (2023), I was invited by the Metrocrest Amateur Radio Society (MARS) in Carrollton to talk about Foxhunting and 3+ years that the RWK has held weekly foxhunts. They were kind enough to record it…
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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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Plans are coming together for another Parks-On-The-Air (POTA) outing to the Spring Creek Forest State Preserve in Garland. Texas State Park K-4423 is the closest POTA-eligible location to Richardson (and only about 10 minutes east of here). Our RWK POTA…
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by Mike Jahrig KG5P This month I’d like to talk about the so-called “Pi-beater” I’m not sure where the term originated, but it was probably by an RWK member on the RWK groups.io blog. In case you have been living…
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