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At the Iron Horse Pub - The Droptines with special guest Landon Lloyd Miller - Friday July 10 - Doors 8:30 PM, Start 9:30 PM - 615 Ohio Street
At the Iron Horse Pub - Mind Funeral with Big Find and special guests The Fleeting Romance - Saturday July 11 - Doors 8:30 PM, Start 9:30 PM - 615 Ohio Street
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07-10-2026 - 5:30 AM - Good Morning! It’s Friday, and the North Central Texas Simplex Net happens on Fridays at 8:00 PM on 146.580 FM simplex. You’ll need a high outside antenna to monitor from Wichita Falls. Once again, I have nothing important on my schedule for today. I have Morse code running on the 40-meter Amateur (ham) Radio in the background. I haven’t made a Morse code contact in a few days, so I might have to catch up on that activity today. Our water supply lake levels continue their slow decline. My Folgers Black Silk coffee is ready.
--- 5:35 AM - NWS Forecast - Today: Sunny and hot, with a high near 100. South wind 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph. Tonight: Mostly clear, with a low around 78. South wind 10 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph.
--- 5:40 AM - NWS Short Range Weather Discussion
--- 5:45 AM - NWS Extended Range Weather Discussion
--- 5:50 AM - According to Water Data for Texas, Wichita Falls reservoirs are: Arrowhead: 80.9% Kemp: 90.9% Kickapoo: 88.6%. Monitored Water Supply Reservoirs are 86.4% full. The City of Wichita Falls uses combined levels of Arrowhead and Kickapoo (84.75%) to determine drought stage.
--- 6:00 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 9,012 Megawatts.
--- 8:37 AM - FEMA Daily Operations Briefing
--- 9:30 AM - I just heard that woman, on CB Radio Channel 19, promoting the Flying J Travel Center at Exit 84 on I-40 in Russellville, Arkansas. She pops up quite often when conditions are favorable.
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07-09-2026 - 6:00 AM - Good Morning! It’s Thursday, and I really have nothing on the schedule for today. I got all the yardwork done on Tuesday and Wednesday. The cost of a First Class U.S. postage stamp will jump from 78¢ to 82¢ on July 12. Local businesses that use direct mail marketing will be impacted. I don’t use many stamps these days, but I guess I'll order some online today or tomorrow. Our water supply lake levels are declining again. We need more hail-free rain. My Folgers Black Silk coffee is ready.
--- 6:05 AM - NWS Forecast - Today: Sunny and hot, with a high near 100. South southwest wind 7 to 10 mph. Tonight: Mostly clear, with a low around 79. South wind 9 to 11 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
--- 6:10 AM - NWS Short Range Weather Discussion
--- 6:15 AM - NWS Extended Range Weather Discussion
--- 6:20 AM - According to Water Data for Texas, Wichita Falls reservoirs are: Arrowhead: 81.2% Kemp: 91.7% Kickapoo: 88.8%. Monitored Water Supply Reservoirs are 87.0% full. The City of Wichita Falls uses combined levels of Arrowhead and Kickapoo (85.0%) to determine drought stage.
--- 6:42 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 8,225 Megawatts.
--- 7:15 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. Read "A Story about Driving a School Bus in Wichita Falls."
--- 8:00 AM - Have you ever noticed that our local transit buses, conducting routine, day-to-day business, never seem to have enough passengers to cover the cost of the gas for that particular trip? Here's a quote from the Texas Comptroller: "Texas' transit programs are funded by a mix of federal, state, and local sources. Fares paid by riders make up only a small portion of their total funding." In past years, there was a lot of Sheppard AFB weekend traffic to and from Sikes Senter Mall to help fill the gap. Those days are gone. Tune in to our transit buses at 453.5375 MHz on your scanner.
--- 8:44 AM - FEMA Daily Operations Briefing
--- 8:55 AM - In the news at Texoma's Home Page (KFDX) - James V. Allred Unit breaks ground on new expanded chapel, Why will The Falls project take 2 years?, TIF board rescinds 2019 vote, frees $2.4 million for downtown, Hirschi High School alums celebrate their 50-year reunion.
--- 9:00 AM - There was a ground-breaking ceremony at the James V. Allred Unit for the planned new chapel. Where the old chapel seats 40, the new facility will seat 500. I’m a little curious about that “500” number. There’s no way you would put 500 convicted felons in the same room without physical separation into smaller groups. Otherwise, enemies would meet, scores would be settled, and blood would be shed. Of course, that could easily happen in smaller groups. That’s a fact. Certainly, that “500” number references uses of the building that involve events other than “offender religious services.” Let's see what develops.
--- 12:13 PM - UPDATED - The Economics Daily
--- 2:00 PM - I bought a pound of ground beef a few days ago from one of our local, well-known merchants. The name doesn’t matter because it has happened at all of them. I put it in the refrigerator. I took it out today, one day before the "use or freeze by" date. The meat was grey and smelly. I checked my refrigerator, and the temperature was 37 degrees. I’m not saying the “use by” date has been doctored; I’m just saying the meat was gray and smelly. I usually never take packaged meat from the front row, instead reaching for the back row. This time, I violated my own rule and grabbed a package from the front.
--- 3:00 PM - The 20-meter Amateur (ham) Radio band has been a little quiet every time I checked. At least in the CW portion of the band. That's not to say there were no stations heard, because there were plenty. It's just that they were a little too weak for me to attempt contact. I probably could have made contact with some of the "weak ones", but I chose not to make the attempts. Just listening was fine with me. The CB Radio, however, was jam-packed all day long. As you might know, when it comes to CB Radio, I'm in the 99.999% listening mode.
--- 5:10 PM - If you saw the movie “License to Drive”, you might remember the examiner flinging his clipboard out of the car, and the enhanced sound of that clipboard flying through the air. At the James V. Allred Unit, a religious group was being escorted through the General Population buildings to distribute Father’s Day cards. The cards were slipped under the doors of the offender’s cells. At one cell, the card came flying back out with a sound no less impressive than the License to Drive clipboard. Read more Wichita Falls Allred Unit snippets.
--- 7:00 PM - Back in the mid-1960s, the building on the southeast corner of 6th and Lamar, now or formerly known as the Atrium Building, was home to Longhorn Chevrolet. Cars were parked inside the building and outside on the lot behind it. Until the early 1980s, the building that formerly housed the Continental Trailways bus station on the southwest corner of 7th and Lamar still displayed a "Colored" sign at one of the rear doors.
--- 7:40 PM - Someone has been having a good time with the DTMF tones on 146.520 FM simplex. I thought I was listening to the audio of the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind. If you know, you know. Or, maybe he has a DTMF "song book," and he's serenading the ether.