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Wichita Falls, Texas: the good, the bad, and the ugly. We're home to the World's Littlest Skyscraper, a six-lane Farm to Market Road that doesn't lead to a farmers market, highway loops that don't loop, and a record for the city of five homicides in one day in 1982. Posts are in reverse chronological order.
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06-20-2025 - 2:59 PM - I contacted a station in Flynn Township State Game Land (US-6674) in Michigan 20 meters (14 MHz) CW (Morse code) in the Amateur (ham) Radio Parks on the Air® program. POTA hunter count: 540.
06-20-2025 - No wonder I have a headache! I just found out today is the longest day of the year, the Summer Solstice. My favorite day is the Winter Solstice, December 21, 2015, the year's shortest day. My mood will improve daily from here on out!
06-20-2025 - The Spectrum salespeople inside Walmart are a pain. I changed directions to avoid one, and he followed me. Today, I was blindsided by a water filter salesperson at Home Depot. Put them outside where they belong.
06-20-2025 - From the U.S. Federal Trade Commission - The operator of the Ganadores scam that made false or unsubstantiated earnings claims in selling real estate and ecommerce business opportunities, will be banned from the industry and required to turn over assets as a result of a Federal Trade Commission lawsuit. The FTC sued Shemin as part of a case against Ganadores, claiming that the operation cost consumers millions of dollars. According to the complaint, Shemin and Ganadores pitched an “infallible system” that could help consumers replace their day jobs and give their families financial independence. Consumers paid exorbitant amounts—sometimes tens of thousands of dollars—for training and coaching that did not live up to those promises.
06-20-2025 - Today, I changed the batteries in the Carbon Monoxide detector and smoke alarms. Are yours up to date?
06-20-2025 - Another oversized load is going through town with driver and pilot cars working on CB Radio Channel 19. The band is opening this morning. The AM heterodynes are singing away but are not disrupting local communications.
06-20-2025 - It was early 1976 when I began to venture into the City of San Francisco after being assigned to the U.S. Army post, the Presidio of San Francisco. One of the first businesses that caught my eye was a nightclub called "Dance Your Ass Off." I thought, "Toto, we're not in Wichita Falls anymore!"
06-20-2025 - FEMA Daily Operations Briefing - National Current Ops / Monitoring – June 19 – 20, 2025
New Significant Incidents / Ongoing Ops:
• Severe Weather – Mid-Atlantic
Hazard Monitoring:
• Severe Thunderstorms – Northern Plains, Upper Mississippi Valley and Great Lakes
• Excessive Rainfall/Flash Flooding – Upper Mississippi Valley
• Critical Fire Weather – Central Great Basin, Central and Southern Rockies, and Southwest
• Tropical Activity
Eastern Pacific:
• Disturbance 1: Low (30%)
Disaster Declaration Activity:
• Approval: Major Disaster Declaration – TN
• FMAG Approval: Forsyth Fire – UT
Event Monitoring:
• No new significant events
06-20-2025 - Have you noticed a general news blackout regarding the James V. Allred Unit? There are academies, promotions, retirements, awards, officer assaults, and the like, but we never hear about them. A news conference is held if a WFPD officer gets a paper cut. Okay, that's an exaggeration, but you know what I mean. I don't know if this is how TDCJ wants things or if our local news media ignores Allred. It's a public agency. Go there. Get the news! Tune in to the Allred Unit with your scanner at 153.815 MHz. At least you'll have some idea of what's going on. Better yet, work there for six months and you'll get a real education!
06-20-2025 - From my WFPD consultant - "I was working the Second Shift - from 3 PM to 11 PM. At the start of the shift, I was assigned to escort a parade float from Memorial Stadium to Sheppard Air Force Base. I don't remember what the parade was about, but it had ended, and it was time to get the float back to the base. The problem? My patrol car "idled" faster than the float could travel. I was behind the float to keep traffic from slamming into it and continuously tapping the brake to keep myself from running over it! I suggested to supervisors that SAFB needed to load this thing on a trailer, but no such luck for me. It took the whole shift to get the job done."
06-20-2025 - From my corrections consultant - An Allred Unit Correctional Officer knew that officers working some of the gates were not thoroughly checking the passes of offenders passing through those gates. To test his theory, he gave one offender a pass and, listed on that pass were items that the offender was authorized to have with him, including a hand grenade and other silliness. Sure enough, the offender passed through those gates unmolested. Who got molested? The officer who issued the pass was "chalked up" for running an unauthorized test. Tune in to the Allfed Unit at 153.815 MHz on your scanner.
06-20-2025 - Some Wichita Falls radio scanning targets: Walmart (154.570 MHz), Allred Unit (153.815 MHz), Wichita County Jail (155.520 MHz), State Hospital (154.800 MHz) city transit buses (453.5375 MHz), WFISD school buses (152.360 MHz), school handheld radios (151.940 MHz), Wichita Valley Airport (122.800 MHz), Kickapoo Airport (122.700 MHz), Wichita Falls Regional Airport / SAFB (119.750 & 122.950 MHz), and the BNSF Railroad (160.920 MHz). MORE!
06-20-2025 - 5:45AM - According to Water Data for Texas, Wichita Falls reservoirs are: Arrowhead: 99.9% Kemp: 100% Kickapoo: 100%. Monitored Water Supply Reservoirs are 99.9% full. The City of Wichita Falls uses combined levels of Arrowhead and Kickapoo (99.95%) to determine drought stage.
06-20-2025 - 5:45 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 8,737 Megawatts.