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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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06-10-2026 - Good Morning! It’s Wednesday, and time to give my generator its regular exercise run. We don’t often need generators in Wichita Falls, but you never know when an extended outage will occur. Remember the Great Texas Freeze? There’s nothing on the area radio schedule for today, but keep your scanner radio on for interesting local, informal conversations. My Folgers Black Silk coffee is ready.
--- 5:20 AM - NWS Forecast - Today: Sunny, with a high near 96. Heat index values as high as 100. South wind 14 to 21 mph, with gusts as high as 28 mph. Tonight: Mostly clear, with a low around 77. South wind 15 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 29 mph.
--- 5:25 AM - NWS Short Range Weather Discussion
--- 5:30 AM - NWS Extended Range Weather Discussion
--- 5:35 AM - According to Water Data for Texas, Wichita Falls reservoirs are: Arrowhead: 84.8% Kemp: 98.6% Kickapoo: 93.1%. Monitored Water Supply Reservoirs are 92.1% full. The City of Wichita Falls uses combined levels of Arrowhead and Kickapoo (88.95%) to determine drought stage.
--- 6: 55 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 9,725 Megawatts.
--- 7:15 AM - According to several sources, the City Limits Golf Club, a 9-hole course with a driving range, is under construction on Highway 79 on the southeast corner of Wichita Falls. I guess no one wanted to revive the old Hawk Ridge course at Loop 11 (the loop that doesn’t loop) and U.S. 287.
--- 7:30 AM - True happiness is going to a high school class reunion and learning that the boy who was voted most likely to succeed - didn't.
--- 7:35 AM - From Yahoo! news: "WASHINGTON, June 9 (Reuters) - Elon Musk’s xAI and SpaceX have been sued by Mississippi residents who say a power plant fueling nearby data centers is blasting “omnipresent and inescapable” noise that has eroded their health and home values." I post this because it's a subject we might, or might not, be dealing with in Wichita Falls. Of course, "edge of the city" dwellers are most likely to be impaced by such data center "quality of life" issues. I doubt we'll be seeing any data centers near the Country Club area.
--- 8:00 AM - FEMA Daily Operations Briefing
--- 8:35 AM - I just heard that recorded truck stop ad on CB Radio Channel 19. I think the business is in Nevada. It has been a regular for many years now. Over a dozen years ago, there was a guy who would get on Channel 19 and advertise the chrome shop next to the Flying J. Sometimes he would bust out in song.
--- 10:10 AM - The Economics Daily
--- 11:22 AM - I contacted a station in William B. Umstead State Park (US-2755) in North Carolina on 20 meters (14 MHz) CW (Morse code) in the Amateur (ham) Radio Parks on the Air® program.