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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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06-15-2026 - 5:30 AM - Good Morning! It’s Monday, a day of varying importance to various individuals. If you have a shortwave radio, you might find interest in the Maritime Mobile Service Net on 14.300 MHz. The purpose of the net, to quote their website, is “… that of handling legal third party traffic from maritime mobiles, both pleasure, and commercial, and overseas-deployed military personnel. We also help missionaries in foreign countries, and volunteer net control stations from throughout North America and the Caribbean maintain the network.” You can hear the net from 12:00 noon to 8:00 PM CDT. Another net of interest during hurricane season is the Hurricane Watch Net. You’ll find the net on 14.325 MHz as needed. My Folgers Black Silk Coffee is ready.
--- 5:35 AM - NWS Forecast - Today: Partly sunny, with a high near 85. East northeast wind around 8 mph. Tonight: Partly cloudy, with a low around 67. East southeast wind 5 to 8 mph becoming calm after midnight.
--- 5:40 AM - NWS Short Range Weather Discussion
--- 5:45 AM - NWS Extended Range Weather Discussion
--- 6:50 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 of9,599 Megawatts.
--- 5:55 AM - According to Water Data for Texas, Wichita Falls reservoirs are: Arrowhead: 84.3% Kemp: 98.1% Kickapoo: 91.3%. Monitored Water Supply Reservoirs are 91.4% full. The City of Wichita Falls uses combined levels of Arrowhead and Kickapoo (87.8%) to determine drought stage.
--- 7:45 AM - At the James V. Allred Unit, our very own male, maximum security prison (two fences = maximum security), offenders (official TDCJ term for state inmates) who are locked down sometimes fling their trays out of the food (bean) slot. Sometimes with the food still on it. The solution to this problem is the “food loaf”, as it is called at Allred. Some places call it a “nutra loaf” or some other cute name. Whatever you call it, it consists of the day’s menu chopped up and baked into bread. The finished product is cut into small loaves and served to the tray-flingers. Some offenders actually like the food loaf idea. A few years ago, I made my own food loaf. I scrambled some eggs, fried some sausage and bacon, diced it all up, and baked it in cornbread. It was pretty good! Get more random Allred Unit snippets here!
--- 8:15 AM - FEMA Daily Operations Briefing
--- 9:05 AM - I miss our Golden Corral restaurant. It seemed to be doing good business. How does a restaurant that is doing good business go out of business? I guess there’s always a reason. We need something similar on the north side of town. How about the Bits & Bytes Buffet for all those data center workers and employees we’ll be acquiring?
--- 10:20 AM - The Economics Daily
--- 11:00 AM - According to a Times Record News social media headline, a Wichita Falls restaurant's reddish-brown ice caught the attention of a Health Department inspector. I can't read the article because I'm not a TRN subscriber. I'll have to find it at one of our other news sources.