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"It comes to you, this stuff just flies through the air, they send this information "beamed" out over the ******* place, you just got to know how to grab it, see, I know how to grab it." Kelso in the movie Heat.
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At the Iron Horse Pub - Mind Funeral with Big Find and special guests The Fleeting Romance - July 11 - Doors 8:30 PM, Start 9:30 PM - 615 Ohio Street.
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07-11-2026 - 6:30 AM - Good Morning! It’s Saturday, and a few local Amateur (ham) Radio Operators usually meet informally for breakfast at 8:00 AM at the Pioneer #3 Restaurant on Old Iowa Park Road at Sheppard Access Road. Look for extra antennas on vehicles and/or handheld radios on the tables inside. Our water supply lake levels continue to decline. We need more rain! My Folgers Black Silk coffee is ready!
--- 6:35 AM - NWS Forecast - Today: Sunny and hot, with a high near 98. Heat index values as high as 101. South wind 7 to 9 mph. Tonight: Mostly clear, with a low around 76. South southeast wind 6 to 8 mph.
--- 6:40 AM - NWS Short Range Weather Discussion
--- 6:45 AM - NWS Extended Range Weather Discussion
--- 6:50 AM - According to Water Data for Texas, Wichita Falls reservoirs are: Arrowhead: 80.7% Kemp: 87.6% Kickapoo: 88.3%. Monitored Water Supply Reservoirs are 84.8% full. The City of Wichita Falls uses combined levels of Arrowhead and Kickapoo (84.5%) to determine drought stage.
--- 7:22 AM - ERCOT (Texas) snapshot of grid conditions - ERCOT reports that conditions are normal and there is enough power for current demand with an operating reserve of 7,322 Megawatts.
--- 8:00 AM - FEMA Daily Operations Briefing
--- 8:05 AM - Some weekend Wichita Falls radio scanning targets: Walmart (154.570 MHz), Allred Unit (153.815 MHz), Wichita County Jail (155.520 MHz), State Hospital (154.800 MHz) city transit buses (453.5375 MHz), Wichita Valley Airport (122.800 MHz), Kickapoo Airport (122.700 MHz), Wichita Falls Regional Airport / SAFB (119.750 & 122.950 MHz), and the BNSF Railroad (160.920 MHz). Get more SCANNING TARGETS HERE!
--- 8:10 AM - I was looking over the multitude of activities and classes at the Fifty Plus Zone (over the WF Public Library) in downtown Wichita Falls, when I thought about the possibility of an Amateur (ham) Radio class. You’d need an instructor, of course. It's another way to keep senior citizens out of trouble. Zone membership is $40 a year. They'll be happy to give you a tour and an activity schedule.
--- 11:15 AM - In the news on Texoma's Home Page (KFDX) - Castaway Cove responds to brawl video, tightens rules, Red Door Senior Center hosts annual ‘Senior Idol’ event, Montague County warns of scam by fake law enforcement, Hobart Walmart renovation that promotes a new, fresh look. The Hobart item was filed under "Local News." Hobart is 111 miles away. I guess Texoma's Home Page has a different idea of local than I do. No big deal, I guess.
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07-10-2026 - 5:30 AM - Good Morning! It’s Friday, and the North Central Texas Simplex Net happens on Fridays at 8:00 PM on 146.580 FM simplex. You’ll need a high outside antenna to monitor from Wichita Falls. Once again, I have nothing important on my schedule for today. I have Morse code running on the 40-meter Amateur (ham) Radio in the background. I haven’t made a Morse code contact in a few days, so I might have to catch up on that activity today. Our water supply lake levels continue their slow decline. My Folgers Black Silk coffee is ready.
--- 5:35 AM - NWS Forecast - Today: Sunny and hot, with a high near 100. South wind 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph. Tonight: Mostly clear, with a low around 78. South wind 10 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph.
--- 5:40 AM - NWS Short Range Weather Discussion
--- 5:45 AM - NWS Extended Range Weather Discussion
--- 5:50 AM - According to Water Data for Texas, Wichita Falls reservoirs are: Arrowhead: 80.9% Kemp: 90.9% Kickapoo: 88.6%. Monitored Water Supply Reservoirs are 86.4% full. The City of Wichita Falls uses combined levels of Arrowhead and Kickapoo (84.75%) to determine drought stage.
--- 6:00 AM - ERCOT (Texas) snapshot of grid conditions - ERCOT reports that conditions are normal and there is enough power for current demand with an operating reserve of 9,012 Megawatts.
--- 8:37 AM - FEMA Daily Operations Briefing
--- 9:00 AM - Checking the CB Radio (Yep, I do that), I see the band is coming alive. I like listening to the chatter. Most of the time, anyway. I'm not a "skip shooter", so I have no interest in actually making any long-distance contacts on that band. When it comes to CB Radio, I long for the quiet times at the bottom of the solar cycle. CB'ers will probably accuse me of blasphemy. As always, you do what makes you happy, and I'll do the same. There's room for both of us!
--- 9:30 AM - I just heard that woman, on CB Radio Channel 19, promoting the Flying J Travel Center at Exit 84 on I-40 in Russellville, Arkansas. She pops up quite often when conditions are favorable.
--- 12:20 PM - UPDATED - Consumer Product Safety Commission Recalls & Warnings
--- 12:48 PM - UPDATED - The Economics Daily
--- 3:20 PM - Today, I received a letter from United Regional Health Care System. It looked like a bill. I haven’t done business with URHCS in the last five years. Did someone get treatment in my name? Upon opening the letter, I was “relieved” to find that it was just a notice about a data breach on one of their vendors! Heck, data breaches are becoming an everyday thing. Anyway, I have already taken all the security precautions recommended by the experts, so I’ll just hope the baddies pick on someone else. Not you, however!
--- 5:00 PM - The worst thing about Sikes Senter Mall’s “end of life” is the loss of BG’s Barber Shop. I’ve never used BG’s services, but I thought it was a great addition to the mall. I hope it survives.
--- 6:15 PM - As expect, the Local Group is active on CB Radio Channel 23. Tune in or join in the fun.
--- 7:00 PM - In the mid-1980s, a T-38 from Sheppard Air Force base lost power over the north side of town. The pilots ejected. The plane landed on its belly in a field, just west of a mobile home park on Town & Country Drive, jumped across the highway (I-44), and landed on the front lawn of the Sealed Air Corporation. It was a miracle that no cars on the highway were hit. In the 1990s, a T-38 crashed (pilots ejected) into an apartment building at Ridgeway and Maurine Streets. A couple, reported to be missionaries, were killed. The woman was sitting in a car, and the man was either walking to or from an apartment when they were caught in the fireball.
--- 7:50 PM - Factory City Tattoo opened at 713 10th Street in downtown Wichita Falls a few years ago. It's been a long time since Wichita Falls could be called "Factory City", but it doesn't hurt to have hope for the future. Chain Restaurant City might have been more accurate. Okay, I'm just having a little fun. But, seriously, you "hams" get on down to the tattoo place and have some Morse code inked on. Just don't look at it! We all know Morse code operators never look at the printed Morse characters! In fact, they don't really exist. How about some "Q" signals? I'd get QLF! Look it up.