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06-23-2026 - 5:00 AM - Good Morning! It’s Tuesday, and the Clay County Amateur Radio Club will conduct its weekly emergency practice net tonight on the club’s 146.800 MHz repeater. Tune in with your scanner radio, or check in if you’re an Amateur (ham) Radio Operator. I have nothing on the schedule for today. At the moment, I have CW (Morse code) running in the background on the old Yaesu 857D radio. I didn’t make any contacts yesterday. I’ll just have to see what today brings. My Folgers Black Silk coffee is ready.
--- 5:05 AM - NWS Forecast - Today: A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms before 1pm, then a slight chance of showers between 1pm and 4pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 94. Heat index values as high as 101. East southeast wind 7 to 11 mph becoming south in the morning. Chance of precipitation is 20%. Tonight: A chance of showers and thunderstorms between 10pm and 1am. Increasing clouds, with a low around 75. South southeast wind 10 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
--- 5:10 AM - NWS Short Range Weather Discussion
--- 5:15 AM - NWS Extended Range Weather Discussion
---6:00 AM - According to Water Data for Texas, Wichita Falls reservoirs are: Arrowhead: 83.5% Kemp: 97.3% Kickapoo: 90.6%. Monitored Water Supply Reservoirs are 90.3% full. The City of Wichita Falls uses combined levels of Arrowhead and Kickapoo (86.9%) to determine drought stage.
--- 6:17 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 8,846 Megawatts.
--- 6:30 - Not long ago, I was at the "lab" at the Clinics of North Texas for bloodwork ahead of a routine physical. There were nine patients waiting. I was the only one not looking at my phone. What does it mean? Nothing. I just found it interesting. I'm probably one of the few people in Wichita Falls who doesn't use a cell phone as a social device. I do all Internet-related work, play, and whatever else from my laptop computer. It can all wait until I get home. In fact, I have seriously been considering going back to a no-features flip phone.
--- 7:55 AM - FEMA Daily Operations Briefing
--- 8:20 AM - The best Amateur (ham) Radio repeater directory is a local “ham” monitoring 146.520 MHz FM simplex. Who else would know which of the 84 repeaters in Dallas, Texas, are most likely to yield an answer if you call?
--- 12:40 PM - The Economics Daily
--- 1:20 PM - UPDATED - International Space Station Passes Over Wichita Falls
--- 6:00 PM - From the American Radio Relay League - On July 1, 2026, a new Element 2 Technician class question pool will take effect for license examinations. From RadioMan763 - Make sure you are using the appropriate license study material.
--- 6:15 PM - The OMIK Amateur Radio Association, an association of primarily Black Amateur Radio Operators, conducts a Sunday net on 14.295 MHz at 16:00 - 18:00 UTC. OMIK was founded in 1952 by Black hams from Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, and Kentucky, hence the name OMIK. Members include hams from all walks of life, including a Tuskegee Airman, now a Silent Key. During the week, 14.295, also known as the "street corner", is a place where friendly conversations happen.
--- 6:25 PM - The Local Group is active on CB Radio Channel 23. Tune in or check in.
--- 6:33 PM - I contacted a station in Midewin National Grassland (US-7256) in Illinois on 20 meters (14 MHz) CW (Morse code) in the Amateur (ham) Radio Parks on the Air® program.
--- 7:30 PM - Will the Multi-Use Radio Service - MURS or the General Mobile Radio Service - GMRS become the new "trucker" radio? It would be great if the entire industry could magically switch to one or the other. I think MURS would be best as it more closely fits the "spirit" of CB Radio as we know it today. Of course, GMRS allows more power, but is that power really needed on FM? Only time will answer these questions.
--- 8:10 PM - Something I never got around to doing back in my skydiving days was a parachute aeronautical mobile operation. I had planned to forego my love of free-fall time, opening the parachute at high altitude, maybe 10,000 feet, and get as much radio time under the canopy as possible. I was going to use a simple handheld 2-meter radio with earphones, working on 146.520 MHz FM simplex. It never happened. There have been several groups over the years that have made regular Ham Radio parachute jumps. I'm not sure if they're still active.