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INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION SCHOOL CONTACT: Youth on the Air Camp 2026 (YOTA Camp 2026), Huntsville, AL, direct via W4Y (Chris Williams KJ5GEW). Contact is for: Thu 2026-06-18 16:36:25 UTC 37 deg. You can listen to the ISS side of the contact on 145.800 MHz on your scanner radio if you are within the "radio footprint", which is quite large with the ISS 250 miles up!
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06-12-2026 - 5:00 AM - Good Morning! It’s Friday, and the North Central Texas Simplex Net will start at 8:00 PM on 146.580 MHz FM. As always, you’ll need a good outside antenna to hear them from Wichita Falls. We got a pretty good rain last night, and more is possible today. On Saturdays, local Amateur (ham) Radio Operators meet informally at 8:00 AM for breakfast at the Pioneer #3 restaurant at Old Iowa Park Road and Sheppard Access Road. Look for vehicles with extra antennas and/or handheld radios on tables. My Folgers Black Silk coffee is ready.
--- 5:10 AM - NWS Forecast - Today: Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly before 1pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 91. Heat index values as high as 98. East wind 6 to 8 mph becoming south in the morning. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. Tonight: Partly cloudy, with a low around 75. South southeast wind 8 to 10 mph.
--- 5:15 AM - NWS Short Range Weather Discussion
--- 5:20 AM - NWS Extended Range Weather Discussion
--- 5:21 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 10,263 Megawatts.
--- 5:25 AM - According to Water Data for Texas, Wichita Falls reservoirs are: Arrowhead: 84.6% Kemp: 98.4% Kickapoo: 92.8%. Monitored Water Supply Reservoirs are 92.1% full. The City of Wichita Falls uses combined levels of Arrowhead and Kickapoo (88.7%) to determine drought stage.
--- 5:55 AM - UPDATED - International Space Station Passes Over Wichita Falls
--- 9:20 AM - FEMA Daily Operations Briefing
--- 9:31 AM - I contacted a station participating in the Lewis & Clark Trail on the Air (LCTOTA) special event in Nebraska on 20 meters CW (Morse code).
--- 11:05 AM - The Economics Daily
--- 11:15 AM - In the Administrative Segregation building, an inmate was close enough to a "use of force" that he got a good dose of chemical agents. In his written grievance, he complained that he was choking so bad he could "holly breed." More random Wichita Falls Allred Unit snippets.
--- 3:30 PM - It was night firing training - with the M - 16 rifle - during Infantry Advanced Individual Training (AIT) at Fort Polk (then Fort Johnson and then back to Fort Polk), Louisiana. To mark the left and right limits of the range were wooden utility poles with red flashing lights on the tops. These were the big lights that you find in radio and TV transmission towers. On this particular range, the tops of these marker poles were below the high dirt backstop that protected the rest of Fort Polk from errant rounds. The rest of the story!
--- 4:05 PM - Today, I received a bill for my annual physical, conducted on 6-12-2026. The “statement date” is 5-26-2026. The Due date is 6-10-2026. That was two days ago. Looking at the bill, there is an item “Annual Alcohol Misuse - $50.00.” They asked me how much, if any, alcohol I consumed. I think a maximum of $5.00 might be more appropriate. Then there was the “Annual Depression Screen - $38.00. I don’t remember being asked how I felt mentally. If they did, it was so fleeting that I forgot about it. Again, $5.00 maximum. More appropriately, they charged just $.01 each for the “Falls Assessment Risk” and the “Cognition Assessed….” That text was cut off, but they had me draw a clock and then draw the hands to read 11:10, while remembering three words they gave me. Then there was a $32.00 charge for “Visit Complexity.” This is on top of the $255.00 for the office visit and $140.00 for PPPS Subsequent Visit, whatever that means. The medical billing world is very strange.
--- 4:50 PM - UPDATED - Consumer Product Safety Commission Recalls & Warnings
--- 5:20 PM - Main Trading Company, a purveyor of Amateur (ham) Radio equipment based in Paris, Texas, has been announcing big inventory-clearing discounts. Several emails from MTC indicate that the company plans to put a big emphasis on RF amplifiers. It is unknown whether this is a move to offer only amplifiers or whether they will still sell other Amateur Radio equipment. I’m thinking amplifiers. Time will tell. I stopped by MTC when I was in Paris for the Total Eclipse in April, 2024.
--- 6:15 PM - The Local Group is up and running on CB Radio Channel 23. I don't hear any "skip" tonight, at least on Channel 23. That can change at any time. Tune in or join in.