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05-24-2026 - 5:05 AM - Good Morning! It’s Sunday, and the Wichita Amateur Radio Society will conduct its weekly informal net tonight at 8:00 PM on the club’s 147.140 MHz repeater. Tune in with your scanner radio! It looks like we’re going to be rain-free for a few days, then our chances go up in the middle of the week. Don’t forget, the Indianapolis 500 Amateur (ham) Radio Special Event Station W9IMS is on the air from May 18 to May 24 on 3.840, 7.245, 14.245, and 18.140 MHz. For a certificate & QSL confirming contact, write to Indianapolis Motor Speedway Amateur Radio Club, P.O. BOX 30954, Indianapolis, IN 46230. My Folgers Black Silk coffee is ready!
--- 5:45 AM - NWS Forecast - Today: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 4pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 85. East wind 3 to 7 mph. Tonight: A 10 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 7pm. Mostly clear, with a low around 63. East wind 5 to 8 mph becoming calm after midnight.
--- 5:50 AM - NWS Short Range Weather Discussion
--- 5:55 AM - NWS Extended Range Weather Discussion
--- 6:15 AM - According to Water Data for Texas, Wichita Falls reservoirs are: Arrowhead: 84.1% Kemp: 94.3% Kickapoo: 86.5%. Monitored Water Supply Reservoirs are 88.9% full. The City of Wichita Falls uses combined levels of Arrowhead and Kickapoo (85.3%) to determine drought stage.
--- 6:23 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 12,109 Megawatts.
--- 6:30 AM - The CB Radio band is still asleep. I have the President McKinley on 40-channel scan. Let's see who is the first to make their presence known. I haven't heard any local Amateur (ham) Radio VHF or UHF communications today. That's not unusual. Maybe I was away from the radio and missed something. Chances are that I didn't miss anything. When I first got into Ham Radio in 1982, the repeaters were quite busy. Not so much these days.
--- 7:15 AM - Our local airports, Kickapoo (122.700 MHz) and Wichita Valley (122.800 MHz), have been quiet, so far, this morning. I usually hear pilots out in the morning taking advantage of the smoother air. High afternoon temperatures mean bumpy air. It's not a big deal either way unless air conditioning is important. Well, it's still early.
--- 7:45 AM - FEMA Daily Operations Briefing
--- 10;35 AM - Wichita Falls had its share of radio and television repair shops back in the day. Now, they're all but gone. These days, radios and TVs last a long time. When they break, you don't replace parts; you replace boards. Or, you throw it away. But by the time they break, a new one with the latest bells, whistles, and features is probably long overdue.
--- 1:30 PM - I’m watching (sort of) the Indianapolis 500, while surfing X, formerly known as Twitter, and listening to Amateur (ham) Radio Parks on the Air® CW (Morse code) activity on the 20-meter band. I have my Putikeeg Morse code key ready. Putikeeg is “geek it up” spelled backward. I might switch over to CB Radio and see what’s going on there. As for the race, I don’t care who wins. I’m not that big a racing fan. Oh, and I gave myself a haircut a little while ago. I use the 1/2 inch guard on the clippers and let 'er rip! I'm not entering any beauty contests.
--- 2:00 PM - I became interested in Amateur Radio as a kid in the early 1960s. I ordered study material from the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), but never did anything with it. My CB Radio life began on Christmas Day, 1964, when I received a pair of Spacephone walkie-talkies. From then until 1982, it was CB Radio for me. Then I got a programmable Bearcat 220 scanner radio, and everything changed. More!
--- 4:00 PM - Someone online thinks their cell phone has replaced all forms of radio communications. Can this person reach dozens or hundreds of people simultaneously, with no infrastructure? Of course not. No WiFi or cell service (likely to be the case in a disaster), and you've got a paperweight in your pocket when it comes to communications. These people are living in a fool's paradise. From Google AI Overview: A "fool's paradise" is an idiom describing a state of happiness or contentment that is based on delusion, false hope, or ignorance of real-world problems. People in this state are temporarily happy because they refuse to accept or are unaware of a situation's impending danger.
--- 6:30 PM - I don't discuss politics, but this is the second time this year I've seen "gorilla warfare" mentioned in a comments section regarding current conflicts. That's right up there with "marshall law."