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10-06-2024 - The Wichita Amateur Radio Society holds a weekly informal net on Sundays at 8:00 PM on the club's 147.140 MHz repeater. Check in or tune in!
10-06-2024 - Just a reminder that there is an active local group on CB Radio, and they meet on Channel 23 at 5:30 PM most evenings. Tune in if you're interested. CB Radio is dead! Long live CB Radio!
10-06-2024 - Amateur (ham) Radio continues to get a lot of exposure on X, formerly known as Twitter, as people learn of "hams" responding to Hurricane Helene. I see plenty of "I need to get a Ham Radio" or "I need to get a CB Radio" posts. Baofengs are recommended a lot. I'm not sure if that's a good thing, a bad thing, or just a thing. Time will tell.
10-06-2024 - NWS Forecast - Today: Sunny, with a high near 92. Calm wind becoming east northeast 5 to 8 mph in the afternoon. Tonight: Mostly clear, with a low around 63. Northeast wind 5 to 7 mph.
10-06-2024 - 5:10 AM - According to Water Data for Texas, Wichita Falls reservoirs are: Arrowhead: 65.0 Kemp: 98.3% Kickapoo 68.0%. Monitored Water Supply Reservoirs are 80.0% full. The City of Wichita Falls uses the combined levels of Arrowhead and Kickapoo to determine drought stage.
10-06-2024 - 5:10 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: 496 km/sec Solar Wind Magnetic Fields: Bt 13 nT, Bz 11 nT Noon 10.7cm Radio Flux: 277 sfu.
10-06-2024 - 5:10 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 11,386 Megawatts.
10-06-2024 - 5:10 AM - Good Morning! It's Simplex Sunday, a day to give those Amateur Radio repeaters a break if possible. Flex those simplex muscles. It's like giving your generator a regular run. Use the more inclusive two-meter FM simplex. Analog, please! GMRS users, you can play, too! For now, I'm listening to Morse code on the 30-meter Amateur (ham) Radio band while I enjoy my first cup of Folgers Black Silk coffee.
10-05-2024 - I made contact with W9YA at Rio Grande Nature Center State Park (US-2712) in New Mexico 20 meters (14 MHz) CW (Morse code) in the Amateur (ham) Radio Parks on the Air® program.
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10-05-2024 - I made contact with AC9HP at Lieber State Recreation Area (US-5685) in Indiana on 20 meters (14 MHz) CW (Morse code) in the Amateur (ham) Radio Parks on the Air® program.
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10-05-2024 - I hear a station in Ray Roberts Lake State Park here in Texas. He's weak, but most Texas Parks on the Air® stations are. I have trouble with Texas and the states bordering Texas. That's propagation!
10-05-2024 - NWS Forecast - Today: Sunny, with a high near 91. Calm wind becoming south 5 to 8 mph in the afternoon. Tonight: Clear, with a low around 64. South wind 3 to 7 mph.
10-05-2024 - 5:30 AM - According to Water Data for Texas, Wichita Falls reservoirs are: Arrowhead: 65.2 Kemp: 98.5% Kickapoo 68.2%. Monitored Water Supply Reservoirs are 80.2% full. The City of Wichita Falls uses the combined levels of Arrowhead and Kickapoo to determine drought stage.
10-05-2024 - 5:30 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: 395 km/sec Solar Wind Magnetic Fields: Bt 8 nT, Bz 2 nT Noon 10.7cm Radio Flux: 291 sfu.
10-05-2024 - 5:30 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 11,035 Megawatts.
10-05-2024 - 5:30 AM - Good Morning. According to news reports, Wichita Falls' first Texas Yum Fest will happen at the "Pickleball Hanger" this weekend. There will be food trucks and other vendors. The address is 5002 Henry S. Grace Freeway. I checked the address on Google Maps, and it is a big building. I have to wonder, did they mean hangar instead of hanger? In sports, it looks like the Legacy Leopards got clawed again. It's Saturday, and there will be a lot of contesting across the bands. The U.S. Parks on the Air® spotter page is empty, at least for 20 meters. The Montague County Simplex Net happens this morning at 9 AM on 147.500 MHz. You'll need an outside antenna to check in or listen. My coffee is ready as I wake up to Morse code on the 40-meter band.
10-04-2024 - I made contact with WB8IZM at Petoskey State Park (US-1533) in Michigan on 20 meters (14 MHz) CW (Morse code) in the Amateur (ham) Radio Parks on the Air® program.
10-04-2024 - FEMA National Current Ops / Monitoring – October 3-4, 2024
New Significant Incidents / Ongoing Ops:
• Helene – Southeast and Mid-Atlantic
Hazard Monitoring:
• Fire Weather – Northern Intermountain and Central Great Basin to the Central Plains
• Tropical Activity:
Atlantic:
• Hurricane Kirk (CAT-4)
• Tropical Storm Leslie
• Disturbance 1: Medium (40%)
Eastern Pacific:
• Disturbance 1: Low (10%)
• Disturbance 2: Medium (40%)
Disaster Declaration Activity:
• Four amendments issued
Event Monitoring:
• No significant events
10-04-2024 - NWS Forecast - Today: Sunny, with a high near 95. Calm wind becoming east northeast around 6 mph in the afternoon. Tonight: Clear, with a low around 63. East wind around 6 mph becoming light and variable after midnnight.