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AT THE WICHITA FALLS MUSEUM OF ART AT MSU TEXAS: Make & Take At The Museum - Tuesday, June 30, 2026 - 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM - 2 Eureka Circle. Quoting WFMA: "Join us at the WFMA for our new Make & Take open studio! We provide the materials, you bring the creativity for these casual drop-in sessions. Free and open to all ages and skill levels, no registration required."
AT THE IRON HORSE PUB: The Notorious Cool Arrows - Wednesday July 1 - Doors 7:00 PM, Start 7:30 PM - 615 8th Street - Wichita Falls.
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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06-30-2026 - 6:20 AM - Good Morning! It’s Tuesday, and the Clay County Amateur Radio Club will conduct its weekly emergency practice net tonight at 8:00 PM on the club’s 146.800 MHz repeater. Tune in or check in! I mowed my yard yesterday, so I have nothing strenuous scheduled for today. Our water supply lake levels are still going in the wrong direction. The forecasted high today is 98 degrees. Our City transit bus drivers are chatty this morning on 453.5375 MHz. My Folgers Black Silk coffee is ready.
--- 6:25 AM - NWS Forecast - Today: Sunny and hot, with a high near 98. South wind 15 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 26 mph. Tonight: Mostly clear, with a low around 76. South southeast wind 14 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 26 mph p>
--- 6:30 AM - NWS Short Range Weather Discussion
--- 6:35 AM - NWS Extended Range Weather Discussion
--- 6:20 AM - According to Water Data for Texas, Wichita Falls reservoirs are: Arrowhead: 82.6% Kemp: 96.4% Kickapoo: 89.3%. Monitored Water Supply Reservoirs are 90.3% full. The City of Wichita Falls uses combined levels of Arrowhead and Kickapoo (85.95%) to determine drought stage.
--- 6:46 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 10,969 Megawatts.
--- 7:30 AM - I saw a story on the Washingtonian website about the illegal food trucks taking over the National Mall. Among other violations noted by the licensed vendors are “intellectual property” violations with trucks adorned with likenesses of Snoopy, Minions, and SpongeBob SquarePants. This immediately brought to mind similar violations by offenders who used the craft shops at our own James V. Allred Unit. Regularly produced for sale were clocks and other items bearing the logos of sports teams. One Correctional Officer said that all you had to do was change one thing on the logo and it's legal. I said that if you look at the logo and think it's a Cowboy, Packers, or whatever logo, then there was a trademark violation. At one time, a new warden shot down the whole “crafts for money” operation. I'm not sure what the situation is now. Read More Random Wichita Falls Allred Unit Snippets.
--- 8:20 AM - FEMA Daily Operations Briefing
--- 9:40 AM - Federal Trade Commission Actions
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06-29-2026 - 6:00 AM - Good Morning! It’s Monday, and we have another hot, rain-free week ahead. Our lake levels are sliding back slightly each day, but that's to be expected until we get rain over those lakes. I have Morse code running in the background on the Amateur (ham) Radio band, and the scanner radio is going with local communications. On the shortwave radio, you can listen to the 7290 Traffic Net (7.290 MHZ Lower sideband) today from 10:00 AM to 12:00 NOON, and again from 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM. These Amateur (ham) Radio Operators relay messages across the region. My Folgers Black Silk coffee is ready.
--- 6:05 AM - NWS Forecast - Today: Sunny and hot, with a high near 99. South wind 17 to 22 mph, with gusts as high as 33 mph. Tonight: Mostly clear, with a low around 76. South wind 15 to 21 mph, with gusts as high as 31 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: 82.9% Kemp: 97.3% Kickapoo: 89.7%. Monitored Water Supply Reservoirs are 90.3% full. The City of Wichita Falls uses combined levels of Arrowhead and Kickapoo (86.3%) to determine drought stage.
--- 7:07 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 11,834 Megawatts.
7:15 AM - You haven't lived until you've walked into the web of one of those huge yellow and black Argiope "writing" spiders, aka Yellow garden spiders. It sounds like fabric ripping. Or, maybe that's what your brain tells you as you hit the ground screaming and trying to get it off of you. The fact that the spider took off upward into the tree makes no difference. The "writing" spiders are the kind that put that zig-zag pattern in the center of the web.
--- 8:52 AM - FEMA Daily Operations Briefing
--- 10:37 AM - The Economics Daily
3:00 PM - Today, I visited Chase Bank, Spec’s, Abner’s Nutrition, and United Supermarket on Old Iowa Park Road. In the United parking lot, a futuristic-looking Lightship trailer was parked. It looked like it cost more than all the cars in the parking lot, combined. Google it.
--- 4:15 PM - While in the self-checkout line at a local Walmart, a representative from "that Walmart bank" approached me to open an account with them. I told the young gentleman that I've had the same account number for over 45 years, and changing it now would be considered bad luck. He countered with the suggestion that I could open an extra account to hide money from my wife! Was business that slow? Tune in to Wichita Falls Walmarts at 154.570 MHz on your scanner.
--- 5:00 PM - Wichita Falls Amateur Radio VHF "simplex" operations fluctuate from year to year. Some years it's popular, some years it's not. Simplex means direct, as opposed to communicating through a repeater. You can listen in by programming 146.520 MHz into your scanner. You'll need an outside antenna to hear all but the very close stations.
--- 6:30 PM - My wife obtained her Amateur (ham) Radio Technician Class license in 2007. After the written exam, she passed the five-word-per-minute Morse code exam, knowing that the FCC would drop the Morse code requirement in two weeks. A few months later, she passed the General Class license exam. When she finished the General Class exam, the examiner placed the grading template over her answer sheet and got a mildly puzzled look. He handed the answer sheet and template to the examiner next to him and asked him to verify that he had the correct template. The second examiner smiled and confirmed that it was the proper template. They won't tell you your score, but I knew then that she had scored 100%.
--- 7:50 PM - The James V. Allred Unit, with a population of 3,700+-, in Wichita Falls, has over 5,500 keys. They get counted every day. You might think the unit is located in Iowa Park, but it's not. It only has an Iowa Park mailing address. Why? Because that area has historically been handled by the Iowa Park Post Office. That didn't change when the City of Wichita Falls expanded. Tune in to the Allred Unit at 153.815 MHz on your scanner radio.
--- 8:30 PM - The doorbell rang one evening. No one rings my doorbell except those trying to sell me something or convert me. I peeped through the peephole and saw the offending bell ringer, clipboard in hand. Having no intention of giving him even the "time of day", I went back to my computing chores. A minute later there was a knock at the back door. No, he didn't! Yes, he did! Read "A Case of Hobby Radio Antenna Envy."