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06-15-2026 - 5:30 AM - Good Morning! It’s Monday, a day of varying importance to various individuals. If you have a shortwave radio, you might find interest in the Maritime Mobile Service Net on 14.300 MHz. The purpose of the net, to quote their website, is “… that of handling legal third party traffic from maritime mobiles, both pleasure, and commercial, and overseas-deployed military personnel. We also help missionaries in foreign countries, and volunteer net control stations from throughout North America and the Caribbean maintain the network.” You can hear the net from 12:00 noon to 8:00 PM CDT. Another net of interest during hurricane season is the Hurricane Watch Net. You’ll find the net on 14.325 MHz as needed. My Folgers Black Silk Coffee is ready.
--- 5:35 AM - NWS Forecast - Today: Partly sunny, with a high near 85. East northeast wind around 8 mph. Tonight: Partly cloudy, with a low around 67. East southeast wind 5 to 8 mph becoming calm after midnight.
--- 5:40 AM - NWS Short Range Weather Discussion
--- 5:45 AM - NWS Extended Range Weather Discussion
--- 6:50 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 9,599 Megawatts.
--- 5:55 AM - According to Water Data for Texas, Wichita Falls reservoirs are: Arrowhead: 84.3% Kemp: 98.1% Kickapoo: 91.3%. Monitored Water Supply Reservoirs are 91.4% full. The City of Wichita Falls uses combined levels of Arrowhead and Kickapoo (87.8%) to determine drought stage.
--- 7:45 AM - At the James V. Allred Unit, our very own male, maximum security prison (two fences = maximum security), offenders (official TDCJ term for state inmates) who are locked down sometimes fling their trays out of the food (bean) slot. Sometimes with the food still on it. The solution to this problem is the “food loaf”, as it is called at Allred. Some places call it a “nutra loaf” or some other cute name. Whatever you call it, it consists of the day’s menu chopped up and baked into bread. The finished product is cut into small loaves and served to the tray-flingers. Some offenders actually like the food loaf idea. A few years ago, I made my own food loaf. I scrambled some eggs, fried some sausage and bacon, diced it all up, and baked it in cornbread. It was pretty good! Get more random Allred Unit snippets here!
--- 8:15 AM - FEMA Daily Operations Briefing
--- 9:05 AM - I miss our Golden Corral restaurant. It seemed to be doing good business. How does a restaurant that is doing good business go out of business? I guess there’s always a reason. We need something similar on the north side of town. How about the Bits & Bytes Buffet for all those data center workers and employees we’ll be acquiring?
--- 10:20 AM - The Economics Daily
--- 11:00 AM - According to a Times Record News social media headline, a Wichita Falls restaurant's reddish-brown ice caught the attention of a Health Department inspector. I can't read the article because I'm not a TRN subscriber. I'll have to find it at one of our other news sources.
--- 5:00 PM - Headline on Texoma's Home Page: "Some of the skydivers killed in Missouri plane crash were experienced jumpers." Having been a pilot and skydiver, I'm not sure what that had to do with the plane crashing shortly after takeoff.
--- 6:30 PM - I'm not suggesting that any Allred Unit Correctional Officer shoot some video from one of the gun towers - preferably B-Tower- or C-Tower, but it would be interesting. Tune in to Allred at 153.815 MHz on your scanner.--- 7:00 PM - From the Texas Department of Public Safety - AUSTIN – The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) welcomed 69 new Texas Highway Patrol Troopers from Recruit Class D-2025 during a graduation ceremony at Great Hills Baptist Church last week. This is the department’s 181st graduating class.
--- 8:00 PM - Do you recall the Computer Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) that were popular in the 1980s and 1990s? They were widely used before the Internet really took off. It was essentially a website, without the web, allowing users to download files and post comments. There was a handful of them in Wichita Falls, dedicated to various topics. I had one up and running in 1995 or so. I used the Wildcat BBS program and a U.S. Robotics dial-up modem. I started out with a 2400 BPS modem, then upgraded to 14,400 BPS, then to 28,800 BPS, and finally to the lightning-fast 56,000 BPS unit.
--- 8:30 PM - The "spider" building on Seymour Highway near KFDX (CH 3) TV, once a popular liquor store, is long gone. It has been demolished, and a new building has been put up in its place. The spider had long been abandoned and was falling apart. Its companion, the "giraffe", the tall sign that stood to the right of it, was taken down many years ago. I wish I had a picture of them together.
--- 8:45 PM - Not long ago, I was listening to two pilots on 122.750 MHz discussing something or another. This is the authorized frequency for private, fixed-wing, air-to-air communications. Helicopters are assigned 123.025 MHz. While these are the two authorized frequencies, you sometimes hear traffic on 123.450 MHz and a few other frequencies. They're in my scanner rotation.
--- 9:00 PM - I'm guessing that airplane pilots scan the instrument panel in their cars more often than non-pilots. If not more often, they probably glean more information from a single scan than non-pilots.