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09-24-2024 - Good Morning! It's Tesday, and the Clay County Amateur Radio Club will hold its weekly Skywarn® practice net tonight at 8:00 PM on the 146.800 MHz repeater. As far as I know, all licensed Amateur (ham) Radio operators are invited to check in. Of course, scanner radio enthusiasts can also tune in. In other news, I have worked 351 Parks on the Air® since the beginning of the year. The POTA program makes for good CW (Morse code) practice. An email from DX Engineering says that the SOTAbeams Carbon-6 Compact Ultra-Light Telescopic Mast I ordered yesterday has shipped. My coffee is ready!
09-23-2024 - Today, I ordered the SOTAbeams Carbon-6 Compact Ultra-Light Telescopic Mast and an end-fed half-wave antenna to give it something to hold up in the air! The mast has 18 telescoping sections. It is 17 inches collapsed and 19 feet extended. I'll be using these items in my upcoming portable operations. I might post a pic when they arrive.
09-23-2024 - I made contact with AB9CA at Sam Parr State Park (US-1020) in Illinois on 20 meters (14 MHz) CW (Morse code) in the Amateur (ham) Radio Parks on the Air® program.
09-23-2024 - Just a reminder that there's an active group on CB Radio Channel 23. You can catch them at 5:30 PM just about every day.
09-23-2024 - Some local 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 Airports / SAFB (119.750 & 122.950 MHz),and the BNSF Railroad (160.920 MHz) are active!
09-23-2024 - I have yet to use my new QRP Labs QCX Mini 20-meter CW transceiver in a local park, but that might happen soon as our blistering temperatures subside. I'm probably going with an end-fed halfwave antenna, a design I've never used before. I've also been looking at the SOTAbeams Carbon-6 Compact Ultra-Light Telescopic Mast for these outings. We have 37 parks!
My CB Radio Daze - How It All Started
09-23-2024 - FEMA National Current Ops / Monitoring for September 22 – 23, 2024
New Significant Incidents / Ongoing Ops:
• No significant incidents / operations
Hazard Monitoring:
• Tropical Activity:
Atlantic:
• Disturbance 1: High (90%)
• Disturbance 2: High (70%)
Eastern Pacific:
• Tropical Storm John
• Disturbance 1: Low (20%)
Central Pacific:
• Disturbance 1: Low (30%)
Disaster Declaration Activity:
•No new declaration activity
Event Monitoring:
• 79th United Nations General Assembly – NY
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09-23-2024 - NWS Forecast - Today: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 8am. Cloudy through mid morning, then gradual clearing, with a high near 78. North northwest wind 6 to 9 mph. Tonight: Clear, with a low around 60. Light and variable wind.
09-23-2024 - 5:32 AM - According to Water Data for Texas, Wichita Falls reservoirs are: Arrowhead: 66.1 Kemp: 99.4% Kickapoo 69.0%. Monitored Water Supply Reservoirs are 81.1% full. The City of Wichita Falls uses the combined levels of Arrowhead and Kickapoo to determine drought stage.
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09-23-2024 - 5:31 AM - NOAA SPACE WEATHER - Last 24 Hrs: Radio Blackouts (R1 - Minor) Solar Radiation Storms (S - None) Geomagnetic Storms (G - None) Current: Radio Blackouts (R - None) Solar Radiation Storms (S - None) Geomagnetic Storms (G - None) Solar Wind Speed: 385 km/sec Solar Wind Speed: 367 km/sec Solar Wind Magnetic Fields: Bt 6 nT, Bz -5 nT Noon 10.7cm Radio Flux: 163 sfu.
09-23-2024 - 5:31 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 9,366 Megawatts.
09-23-2024 - 05:31 AM - Good Morning! We got a lot of much-needed rain at the Wichita Falls Man HQ last night. I hope your area did well, also. I also hope our lakes and watershed got a good drenching. I have nothing of importance on the schedule for today. I hear our local City transit buses (453.5375) MHz are up and running. More of our local scanning targets should show up before long. Oh, and the forecasted high for today is 78 degrees! My coffee is ready!
My Favorite Amateur Radio QSL Card
09-22-2024 - At 8:00 PM, the Wichita Amateur Radio Society weekly net kicked off as scheduled. I was watching football, so I didn't pay much attention to it. When I turned the scanner volume back up at 8:20, the net was over. I guess others were also watching football.
09-22-2024 - I made contact with KD8EEJ at Arches National Park (US-0004) in Utah on 20 meters (14 MHz) CW (Morse code) in the Amateur (ham) Radio Parks on the Air® program.
09-22-2024 - FEMA National Current Ops / Monitoring for Sep 21 - 22, 2024
New Significant Incidents / Ongoing Ops:
• No new significant incidents / ops
Hazard Monitoring:
• Heavy Rain / Flash Flooding – Southern Plains, Middle Mississippi and Ohio Valleys
• Tropical Activity
Atlantic
• Disturbance 1: Low (20%)
• Disturbance 2: High (70%)
• Disturbance 3: Med (40%)
Eastern Pacific
• Disturbance 1: Med (60%)
• Disturbance 2: Med (50%)
Central Pacific
• Disturbance 1: Med (70%)
Disaster Declaration Activity:
• No new declaration activity
Event Monitoring:
• 79th United Nations General Assembly – NY
09-22-2024 - The Wichita Amateur Radio Society holds a weekly informal net on Sundays at 8:00 PM on the club's 147.140 MHz repeater. As far as I know, all licensed Amateur (ham) Radio operators are invited to check in. Of course, scanner radio enthusiasts can also tune in.
09-22-2024 - NWS Forecast - Today: A chance of showers and thunderstorms, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 4pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 89. South wind 8 to 10 mph becoming north in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between three quarters and one inch possible. Tonight: Showers and possibly a thunderstorm before 10pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms between 10pm and 1am, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 1am. Low around 60. North wind 10 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
09-22-2024 - 5:25 AM - According to Water Data for Texas, Wichita Falls reservoirs are: Arrowhead: 66.4 Kemp: 99.4% Kickapoo 69.3%. Monitored Water Supply Reservoirs are 81.2% full. The City of Wichita Falls uses the combined levels of Arrowhead and Kickapoo to determine drought stage.
09-22-2024 - 5:06 AM - NOAA SPACE WEATHER - Last 24 Hrs: Radio Blackouts (R - None) Solar Radiation Storms (S - None) Geomagnetic Storms (G - None) Current: Radio Blackouts (R - None) Solar Radiation Storms (S - None) Geomagnetic Storms (G - None) Solar Wind Speed: 385 km/sec Solar Wind Magnetic Fields: Bt 5 nT, Bz 1 nT Noon 10.7cm Radio Flux: 158 sfu.
09-22-2024 - 5:06 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 11,446 Megawatts.