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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!
SPECIAL EVENT STATION: The Lake Whitney Amateur Radio Society will be on the air with the "Football/Futbol On The Air - the 2026 World Soccer Tournament" Special Event Station, call sign W5C, from June 11 to July 19, 2026 on 14.074 MHz. QSL to Ron Franklin, 120 PR 22223, Whitney, TX 76692.
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06-16-2026 - 5:30 AM - Good Morning! It’s Tuesday, and the Clay County Amateur Radio Club will conduct its weekly emergencY practice net on the club’s 146.800 MHz repeater. Tune in with your scanner radio. We’ll be warming up today, with 92 degrees forecasted, and really warming up tomorrow, with a forecasted high of 100 degrees. My Folgers Black Silk coffee is ready.
--- 5:35 AM - NWS Forecast - Today: Partly sunny, then gradually becoming sunny, with a high near 92. Calm wind becoming southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon. Tonight: Clear, with a low around 73. Southeast wind 9 to 11 mph, with gusts as high as 18 mph.
--- 5:40 AM - NWS Short Range Weather Discussion
--- 5:45 AM - NWS Extended Range Weather Discussion
--- 6:03 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 8,926 Megawatts.
--- 6:05 AM - According to Water Data for Texas, Wichita Falls reservoirs are: Arrowhead: 84.2% Kemp: 98.0% Kickapoo: 91.2%. Monitored Water Supply Reservoirs are 91.3% full. The City of Wichita Falls uses combined levels of Arrowhead and Kickapoo (87.7%) to determine drought stage.
--- 6:10 AM - If you're an old-timer, you may remember dialing the phone number to check the local time and temperature. I called it many times. It went out of service years ago. I don't remember the number, and so far, I haven't been able to find it in the city directory of that period. I might check to see if the Wichita Falls Public Library has some old phone books. I wish I had every old phone book issued during my life. They are a great window to the past.
--- 6:15 AM - Over a decade or so ago, I found a storm spotter group in Georgia that used CB Radio rather than Amateur (ham) Radio. I'm not sure how that worked out. With no repeaters, really high power would have been necessary. Even with that, the thunderstorm-induced static crashes must have been really distracting. CB Radio is great, but it isn't all-purpose.
--- 7:00 AM - I love the smell of diesel exhaust in the morning! Just over 20 years ago, I drove a Wichita Falls ISD school bus for about six months. This was one of several "retirement" jobs. These big machines with the excessive “tail swing” were fun to drive and an interesting challenge on tight turns. Continue the adventure!
--- 7:20 AM - An oversized load is passing through town, with communications on CB Radio Channel 19. Atmospheric conditions are calm at the moment (no skip shooters are audible), which is great for local communications. That could change at any time. Tune in with your CB Radio or scanner radio.
--- 7:35 - Local Amateur (ham) Radio chatter has been nonexistent so far this morning. Local business chatter (Allred Unit, Walmart, city buses, County Jail, and others) is at normal levels. The Clay County hams will inform and entertain (mostly inform) tonight at 8:00 on 146.800 MHz. Tune it with your scanner radio.
--- 8:00 AM - I wrote about this on one of the Amateur (ham) Radio forums well over a dozen years ago. I came up with the idea after attending several small hamfests with a dismally small number of tables. I'm talking about four or five tables. While the number of tables was small, the number of people coming through the door was quite large. What if everyone coming through the door could bring a radio item to sell, and they could place it on a "community table" at little or no cost? If not free, I'm thinking a maximum of $1. Get the rest of the story!
--- 8:18 AM - FEMA Daily Operations Briefing
--- 8:20 AM - From the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure - All prosecutions shall be carried on "in the name and by authority of The State of Texas", and conclude, "against the peace and dignity of the State". I just thought you'd like to know that.
--- 9:25 AM - At Texoma's Home Page (KFDX) - WFISD plans for next school year with TEA guidance, East Side residents discuss revitalization at town hall, New World screwworm reemerges in Texas, raising alarms, Elder financial scams on the rise, BBB warns, WF councilors to discuss flood mitigation solutions.
--- 9:30 AM - Years ago, the former Sears building sat vacant in downtown Wichita Falls. I dreamed that if I won a big lottery jackpot, I would buy the building and turn it into a restaurant mall for locally-owned eateries. I didn't win the lottery. The building was purchased by someone else. It became a storage facility. It serves a limited number of people. My idea would have served thousands. More!