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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 W5, 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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06-14-2026 - 5:45 AM - Good Morning! It’s Sunday, and the Wichita Amateur Radio Society will conduct its weekly informal net tonight at 8:00 PM on the club’s 147.140 MHz repeater. Tune in with your scanner radio. We had, or still have, a 50% chance of rain today. Looking at the weather radar, I see a large group of storms moving east and crossing I-35. Did we miss our chance, or is more on the way? My Folgers Black Silk coffee is ready.
--- 5:50 AM - NWS Forecast - Today: A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 4pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 85. Northeast wind 7 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. Tonight: A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms before 7pm, then a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after 10pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 64. Northeast wind 8 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
--- 5:55 AM - NWS Short Range Weather Discussion
--- 6:00 AM - NWS Extended Range Weather Discussion
--- 6:10 AM - According to Water Data for Texas, Wichita Falls reservoirs are: Arrowhead: 84.6% Kemp: 98.3% Kickapoo: 91.7%. Monitored Water Supply Reservoirs are 91.7% full. The City of Wichita Falls uses combined levels of Arrowhead and Kickapoo (88.15%) to determine drought stage.
--- 6:19 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 of11,225 Megawatts.
--- 7:15 AM UPDATED - Scanner Radio Frequencies & Radio Activities for Wichita Falls, Texas
--- 8:05 AM - FEMA Daily Operations Briefing
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06-13-2026 - 5:30 AM - Good Morning! It’s Saturday, and 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. There’s a 20% chance of rain today. I’m calling it a 0% chance. I have updated the International Space Station Passes Over Wichita Falls page. My Folgers Black Silk coffee is ready.
--- 5:45 AM - NWS Forecast - Today: A 20 percent chance of showers before 7am. Mostly sunny, with a high near 95. Heat index values as high as 99. South wind 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Tonight: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1am. Partly cloudy, with a low around 72. South wind 8 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 24 mph.
--- 5:50 AM - NWS Short Range Weather Discussion
--- 5:55 AM - NWS Extended Range Weather Discussion
--- 6:00 AM - According to Water Data for Texas, Wichita Falls reservoirs are: Arrowhead: 84.6% Kemp: 98.4% Kickapoo: 91.7%. Monitored Water Supply Reservoirs are 91.7% full. The City of Wichita Falls uses combined levels of Arrowhead and Kickapoo (88.15%) to determine drought stage.
--- 6:18 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 9,271 Megawatts.
--- 6:25 AM - UPDATED - International Space Station Passes Over Wichita Falls
--- 6:50 AM - At the Iron Horse Pub - James Cook Band with special guest Gammon and the Lonely - Saturday June 13 - Doors 8:30 PM, Start 9:30 PM - 615 8th Street in downtown Wichita Falls.
--- 7:00 AM - When life gives you burned toast, make a BB gun target out of it!
--- 7:00 AM - According to a story on Texoma's Home Page, a mother and her two daughters enjoyed a minor shoplifting spree at the local Target store. The total amount stolen was $205.83. The three got some family time at the county jail. Great parenting.
--- 7:30 AM - Headlines - Wichita Co. deputies find trunk ‘completely full’ of marijuana during traffic stop, Mother, daughters accused of theft from WF Target, Officer, deputies won’t be charged in Jack County officer-involved shooting, Man pulls large knife in Wichita Falls Taco Bell.
--- 8:50 AM - FEMA Daily Operations Briefing
--- 11:00 AM - Some Wichita Falls weekend 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 Airports / SAFB 119.750 & 122.950 MHz, FAA ATC Fort Worth Center 132.925 MHz, and the BNSF Railroad 160.920 MHz. MORE!
--- 3:15 PM - I'm looking for an Amateur (ham) Radio Parks on the Air contact, but the 20-meter band is, once again, taking a nap. I will check back later
--- 3:30 PM - I just finished watching Close Encounters of the Third Kind on Peacock. I first saw the movie when it first came out, in 1977, at the Coronet Theater on Geary Boulevard in San Francisco. This is the same theater where I saw Star Wars a few months earlier. By the way, Close Encounters still holds up as a masterpiece after 49 years.
--- 4:00 PM - I was "today years old" when I learned that Chuck Connors (The Rifleman) was a Boston Celtcs and Brooklyn Dodgers player.
--- 6:25 PM - A couple of Local Group guys are chatting on CB Radio Channel 23. The group might have shrunk just a little bit over the years, or it could be my imagination. I think they'll be around for years to come. Tune in or join in.
--- 7:30 PM - I heard my first “88” on Amateur (ham) Radio today. “73” (not 73s) is often heard and means “Best Regards.” Heard less often is “88”, which stands for “Love & Kisses”. Today I heard “88” in Morse code while looking for Parks on the Air stations to contact. It was a female operator.
--- 8:00 PM - I'm not a basketball fan, but I'm watching Game 5 of the NBA finals. I'd like to see the Knicks win. After all, it's been 53 years! Also, there's not much else on TV.
--- 8:45 PM - Have you noticed that 99% of "the trouble with Ham Radio" involves a microphone? I don't know about you, but I've never heard someone talking crap using Morse code. For one thing, it takes too much time, and it wouldn't have the same impact as a voice. How do you yell using Morse code? Also, agitators probably don't know a dot from a dash to begin with.