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Spring 2025 Regular Meeting Times

Sun, 23 Feb 2025 12:00:00 +0000

Welcome!

The K5UTD Amateur Radio Club is holding regular meetings during the Spring 2025 semester every Thursday at 18:00 (6:00 PM). Meetings will occur in the K5UTD Radio Shack at ECSN 3.116.

Each weekly meeting will be themed around different aspects of amateur radio experimentation.

Get hands-on experience operating amateur equipment and make contact with other amateur radio operators around the planet.
Design and conduct amateur radio experiments utilizing resources in RF design and radio communication.
Access our workbench materials and build something of your own, using club test and measurement equipment.

You do not need to be personally licensed to engage with our club activities. We also operate the K5UTD station callsign during meetings, so you can get on the air!

More information can be found by joining our Discord.

Free Testing and Licensing

Looking to get more into amateur radio? Getting licensed allows you to transmit with amateur equipment on your own!

Join one of our upcoming HamStudy Sessions!

Request to schedule a test session in our Discord or email us here! ham@utdallas.edu

How do I study?

HamStudy is an interactive study tool with dedicated guides, explanations, and resources for the hobby.

For a study guide, we recommend the No Nonsense Study Guide by Dan Romanchik. Here is a livestream recording of the author’s 1-day class for getting the Technician Class License.

The question pools these resources are based on are made publicly available by the FCC, with more information provided by the ARRL.

Richardson Wireless Club Meetings

If you’re looking for some local guidance beyond K5UTD activities, K5RWK University offers some guided courses for new hams.

K5RWK Student Membership is only $5 a year!

We also invite you to attend K5RWK meetings, which are held on the 2nd Monday of the month at 6:30 PM. The meeting location is St. Barnabas church in Richardson (Mimosa and Belt Line).

1220 W Belt Line Rd, Richardson, TX 75080.

More info about the RWK meetings can be found at k5rwk.org.

Spring 2024 Meeting Times

Thu, 14 Sep 2023 12:00:00 +0000

Welcome!

The K5UTD Amateur Radio Club is holding regular meetings during the Spring 2024 semester every Friday at 19:00 (7:00pm). Meetings will occur in the K5UTD Radio Room at ECSN 3.116. We hope to see you there!

More information can be found by joining our Discord server here.

We also invite you to attend K5RWK meetings, which are held on the 2nd Monday of the month at 6:30PM. The meeting location is St. Barnabas church in Richardson (Mimosa and Belt Line).

More info about the RWK meetings can be found at k5rwk.org.

AREDN Mesh at UTD

Tue, 28 Jun 2016 12:00:00 +0000

On June 14, 2016 the K5UTD ARC installed Amateur Radio mesh equipment on the 300’ tower at UT Dallas.

K5UTD Repeater Move

Sun, 05 Jun 2016 02:00:00 +0000

The K5UTD ARC will be installing equipment on the 300’ tower on the UT Dallas campus.

K5UTD at HamCom

Fri, 03 Jun 2016 23:00:00 +0000

The K5UTD ARC will be present at HamCom next week, and we’d like your help getting ready for the event. We will be setting up a table and selling equipment that has been donated to the club. The event is being setup on Thursday (6/9), and will be open to the public on Friday and Saturday (6/10-6/11).