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05-26-2026 - 5:00 AM - Good Morning! It’s Tuesday, and the Clay County Amateur Radio Club is scheduled to hold its weekly emergency practice net tonight at 8:00 PM on the club’s 146.800 MHz repeater. Tune in with your scanner radio. Next month is the annual ARRL Field Day, an event where many Amateur (ham) Radio Operators operate under simulated emergency conditions for 24 hours. I’ll post more on that as the time nears. The holiday weekend is over, and it’s back to a little yardwork for me. My Folgers Black Silk coffee is ready!
--- 5:05 AM - NWS Forecast - Today: A chance of showers and thunderstorms between 7am and 10am, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 10am. Mostly sunny, with a high near 83. Light east southeast wind becoming south southeast 5 to 9 mph in the morning. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. Tonight: Showers and possibly a thunderstorm. Low around 63. Southeast wind 5 to 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
--- 5:10 AM - NWS Short Range Weather Discussion
--- 5:15 AM - NWS Extended Range Weather Discussion
--- 5:18 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 11,043 Megawatts.
--- 5:20 AM - According to Water Data for Texas, Wichita Falls reservoirs are: Arrowhead: 84.0% Kemp: 94.5% Kickapoo: 86.7%. Monitored Water Supply Reservoirs are 89.0% full. The City of Wichita Falls uses combined levels of Arrowhead and Kickapoo (85.35%) to determine drought stage.
--- 6:20 AM - Back in the day, you could rent a room at the downtown YMCA, and in 1970, a CB Radio operator did just that. While contemplating his operating options, if any, he noticed a coaxial cable running past his window up to the roof. A little investigation determined that this was the cable to the TV in the "social room" on the first floor. On the roof was a typical TV Yagi antenna. MORE!
--- 6:30 AM - The CB Radio band is starting to come back to life. I hear local traffic on Channel 24, and on the "superbowl" of CB Radio, Channel 6, the skip shooters are holding court.
--- 8:22 AM - FEMA Daily Operations Briefing
--- 12:55 PM - In the days before the “Individually Assigned Vehicles”, or take-home cars, WFPD officers were assigned vehicles at the shift briefing. One officer, a prolific smokeless tobacco user, made it easy to tell which car he drove, as there was tobacco juice all down the outside of the driver’s door. MORE!
--- 1:30 PM - One afternoon in Texas a farmer decided to go for a swim in a nearby creek after a hot morning of hard work. As he dived in, the southwest wind dried up all the water. Before he crashed on the rocks, a flash flood filled the creek up again. And then, before he could come up, he was trapped as a sudden blue norther froze the surface. But he didn't drown because the sun came out to melt the ice, and the farmer climbed onto the bank with no injury besides a sunburn. David K. Sellars, "Texas Tales," 1955
--- 2:00 PM - I noticed that the Wichita Falls Police Department Cadweb activity page is still being flagged by Bitdefender as having an "untrusted" (expired?) security certificate. This has been the case for almost two years that I know of. Perhaps I'll send them a note through the City's online portal. Anyway, 99% of police activity is of zero interest to me, so it's really no big deal.
--- 3:30 PM - School is out for the Summer here in Wichita Falls, and that means fewer scanner radio targets. The fantastically entertaining WFISD school buses (152.360 MHz) and the lesser entertaining school staff handheld radios (151.940 MHz) will be off the air. Not to worry, there are a lot more scanning targets in and around Wichita Falls to enjoy!
4:00 PM - What happened to the County Hunters Net? This was a net for those Amateur (ham) Radio operators wanting to make contact with a station in every county - 3077 recognized by the County Hunter program - in the USA. Did it fizzle out? As far as I can tell, the net, or nets, have been replaced by a county spotter website. I never got involved in County Hunting, but I would occasionally listen. I'll always remember those 2x2 signal reports when conditions were bad: "Two Two - Rifle Shot - Bang Bang!"
--- 7:00 PM - The Local Group is chatting away on CB Radio Channel 23. I don't know how long they've been on, as I just turned on the radio. I was taking a short post-lawn-mowing nap. Someone asked whether the city of Iowa Park was pronounced I-o-way Park or I-o-wa Park. They must have been listening to some Wichita Falls Amateur Radio guys. I'm waiting for them to question whether it's APRS (Automatic Packet Reporting System) or "APARS". If you know, you know. Not that CBers use APRS.
--- 8:00 PM - The Clay County (Henrietta, Texas) Amateur Radio Club weekly emergency practice net in on the air on the club's 146.800 MHz repeater. Tune in with your scanner radio!
--- 9:30 PM - Early to bed tonight. My lawn mowing wore me out. I'll probably read for a short while. I've been reading "Low Level Hell", a story about a Vietnam helicopter "scout" pilot.