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05-28-2025 - 5:30 AM - Good Morning! It's Wednesday. Yesterday, I received a pair of Retevis RT27V MURS Multi-Use Radio Service handheld radios. These are 5-channel, license-free units. They have enough power-2 watts-for city-wide communications with a decent outside antenna, which they will accept. My Folgers Black Silk coffee is ready.
05-27-2025 - The Clay County Amateur Radio Club (Henrietta, Texas) holds a weekly practice net on Tuesdays at 8:00 PM on the 146.800 MHz repeater. As far as I know, all licensed Amateur (ham) Radio operators are invited to check in. Of course, scanner radio enthusiasts can also tune in.
05-27-2025 - At 3:45 PM, I heard a one-sided conversation on 151.880 MHz, a frequency in the Multi-Use Radio Service. The unheard station was out of my range. Tune in with your scanner radio!
05-27-2025 - From my WFPD consultant - It was the early 1980s at the old Gibson's Discount Center at 12th and Ohio in downtown Wichita Falls. Money was missing, on a semi-regular basis, from the coffee payment jar in the break room. Management had a female suspect in mind. Store security, and an off-duty but in-uniform WFPD officer, was briefed. The officer located a hole in one of the product shelf units where he could see into the break room. Before long, he saw the suspect enter the break room. Looking through the hole, he saw the suspect go straight to the can, take out the coins, and put them into her bra. He met her as she exited the break room and gave her the bad news. It wasn't the Brinks robbery, but she lost her job. The officer said he saw her at the mall years later and they had a laugh about it.
05-27-2025 - FEMA Daily Operations Briefing - National Current Ops / Monitoring - May 26-27, 2025
New Significant Incidents / Ongoing Ops:
• No new significant incidents / operations
Hazard Monitoring:
• Severe Thunderstorms - Southern Plains, Southeast
• Excessive Rainfall / Flash Flooding - Southern Plains, Lower Mississippi Valley to Southeast, Ohio Valley
• Tropical Activity:
Eastern Pacific - Disturbance 1: High (90%)
Disaster Declaration Activity:
• No new declaration activity
Event Monitoring:
• No new significant events
05-27-2025 - CB Radio Channel 19 has been quiet this morning. The Allred Unit (153.815 MHz) and our city transit buses (453.5375 MHz) have been taking up the slack. Tune in with your scanner radio.
05-27-2025 - A few years ago, I saw these panties on the floor in the "social room" at the 50 Plus Zone in downtown Wichita Falls. Was it a ploy to increase membership renewals, or did someone inadvertently drop their drawers? I do not know, and I don't think I want to know.
05-27-2025 -The recent rains remind me of the time Willard Scott of the Today Show came to town to dedicate our new waterfalls. Due to flooding, only the top half of the waterfalls was visible. It was an interesting event.
05-27-2025 - Are you old enough to remember when the Seymour Drive-In sat on the southeast corner of Seymour Hwy and McNiel, where a plumbing business now sits? I have a fuzzy memory of watching a movie there. I was more of a Twin Falls Drive-In (Sheppard Access Road near Old Iowa Park Road) guy.
05-27-2025 - School is out, and I'm having symptoms of school bus radio traffic withdrawal. I exaggerate sometimes. School buses are a good contributor to local scanner radio content, and I look forward to their return to service.
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05-27-2025 - 5:40 AM - According to Water Data for Texas, Wichita Falls reservoirs are: Arrowhead: 96.9% Kemp: 100.0% Kickapoo: 100.0%. Monitored Water Supply Reservoirs are 98.7% full. The City of Wichita Falls uses combined levels of Arrowhead and Kickapoo (98.45%) to determine drought stage.
05-27-2025 - 5:40 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 9,889 Megawatts.
05-27-2025 - 5:40 AM - NWS Forecast - Today: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 10am. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 78. Northeast wind 6 to 8 mph. Tonight: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1am. Partly cloudy, with a low around 63. East northeast wind 5 to 8 mph.
05-27-2025 - 5:30 AM - Good Morning! It's Tuesday. The Clay County Amateur Radio Club (Henrietta, Texas) holds a weekly practice net on Tuesdays at 8:00 PM on the 146.800 MHz repeater. As far as I know, all licensed Amateur (ham) Radio operators are invited to check in. Of course, scanner radio enthusiasts can also tune in. My Folgers Black Silk coffee is ready!
05-26-2025 - 6:00 - The Local Group is on the air on CB Radio Channel 23, discussing a multitude of things. Tune in and be entertained and informed. UPDATE: One or more people started bombarding the channel with various noises. The disruption lasted at least five minutes. It all sounded local to me, with strong signals. I know it's CB Radio, folks, but that was ridiculous!
05-26-2025 - At 5:50 PM, I heard new voices (new to me) on 151.820 MHz, a frequency in the Multi-Use Radio Service. It was a short transmission that didn't repeat. I feel like a frustrated SETI scientist.
05-26-2025 - 2:51 PM - I contacted a station in Dismal Swamp State Park (US-2727) in North Carolina on 20 meters (14 MHz) CW (Morse code) in the Amateur (ham) Radio Parks on the Air® program. POTA hunter count: 532.
05-26-2025 - 11:40 AM - I contacted a station in Knob Noster State Park (US-1767) in Missouri on 20 meters (14 MHz) CW (Morse code) in the Amateur (ham) Radio Parks on the Air® program. POTA hunter count: 531.
05-26-2025 - 9:45 AM - The CB Radio band is alive and well this morning, and the skip-shooters are showing no respect for truckers on Channel 19. As I listen, there are a number of unused channels available, which is usually the case. They disrupt Channel 19, but they still want their goods delivered.
05-26-2025 - The condition of 10th Street, between Scott and Indiana, is an abomination and a travesty. Yet the City will probably spend more than the cost to repair it on a fireworks display in July.