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07-04-2026 - 6:20 AM - Good Morning! It’s Saturday, the 4th of July. For some, this is the last day they will have all ten fingers! Some of our local Amateur (ham) Radio Operators usually meet informally for breakfast at the Pioneer #3 Restaurant at Old Iowa Park Road and Sheppard Access Road. Look for extra antennas on vehicles and/or handheld radios on the tables. The Wichita Falls Farmer’s Market - both the 8th & Ohio and 8th and Austin locations - will open at 9:00 AM. The Montague County Simplex Net kicks off at 9:00 AM on 147.500 MHz. You'll need a high outside antenna to monitor or participate from Wichita Falls. Our water supply lake levels continue their backslide. My Folgers Black Silk Coffee is ready.
--- 6:25 AM - NWS Forecast - Today: Sunny and hot, with a high near 100. South wind 7 to 10 mph. Tonight; Partly cloudy, with a low around 77. Southeast wind 8 to 10 mph.
--- 6:30 AM - NWS Short Range Weather Discussion
--- 6:35 AM - NWS Extended Range Weather Discussion
--- 6:40 AM - According to Water Data for Texas, Wichita Falls reservoirs are: Arrowhead: 81.8% Kemp: 93.4% Kickapoo: 88.6%. Monitored Water Supply Reservoirs are 87.9% full. The City of Wichita Falls uses combined levels of Arrowhead and Kickapoo (85.2%) to determine drought stage.
--- 6:53 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 11,170 Megawatts.
--- 7:15 AM - I’m starting the day, once again, on CB Radio. Channel 6 is up and running, and Channel 37, lower sideband, is also active with an Atlanta station booming in. Spinning the dial, I find that about 30 of the 40 channels are active. That number will increase rapidly. What’s on your CB Radio?
--- 9:10 AM - FEMA Daily Operations Briefing
--- 9:15 AM - Back in the late 1960s, one of the local CB Radio clubs - Faith City Five-Watters or Red River Valley CB Club - would meet in one of the district courtrooms downtown. One member was eager to report that he had "tuned up" his radio and it was now "kicking out 6 watts!" If you know, you know.
10:00 AM - After watching the series “The Last Ship”, I thought I would get the book. It arrived a few days ago. It’s 614 pages of really small type. After about 10 pages, I had to put it down. The author used twice as many words as needed to say what he wanted. I decided to cut my losses. I wondered if other readers thought the same thing, so I posted to Google: “The Last Ship book was way too wordy.” Here’s what I got from Google AI Overview: "You are definitely not alone there. William Brinkley's 1988 post-apocalyptic novel The Last Ship is notorious for being incredibly overwritten. Filled with massive paragraphs, 50-cent vocabulary words, and exhaustive tangents on naval life and shipboard dynamics, it often reads more like a bloated historical treatise than a taut survival story."
--- 11:40 AM - I switched to the Amateur (ham) Radio 20-meter band after listening to CB Radio for several hours and found 20 meters dead. Not a peep. As I’ve heard some CB’ers say: “I can’t get no conditions!” Okay, just having a little fun. But, seriously, it’s time to switch back to CB Radio where the activity is on fire. Why not check the many other Amateur Radio HF bands? No reason other than I’m just not interested in those bands. Throughout the day, 20 meters gives me all the Ham Radio HF action I need. I can already hear it: “If we don’t use those bands, we’ll lose them.” If you’re worried about losing a certain band or bands, you absolutely should be using them. I have no such worries. Again, it's back to CB Radio.