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10-14-2024 - 5:00 AM - Good Morning! It's Monday and Columbus Day. There is no mail delivery today, but there will be trash pick-up for Monday trash people. I didn't work any Parks on the Air® stations yesterday. The Cowboys got whipped by the Lions, and the Mets got whipped by the Dodgers yesterday. I've got the scanner radio fired up, Morse code going on the 40-meter Amateur (ham) radio band, and my Folgers Black Silk Coffee is ready!

The General Mobile Radio Service - GMRS

10-13-2024 - 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!

10-13-2024 - FEMA National Current Ops / Monitoring – October 12-13, 2024

New Significant Incidents / Ongoing Ops:
• TC Milton – Florida
• TC Helene – Southeast and Mid-Atlantic

Hazard Monitoring:
• Excessive Rainfall – Florida
• Tropical Activity:
Atlantic:
• Disturbance 1: Low (30%)

Disaster Declaration Activity:
• No new declaration activity

Event Monitoring:
• No new significant events

10-13-2024 - 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! It's Sunday, so no school, school buses, of City buses, but everything else is active. BNSF is very active this morning.

10-13-2024 - NWS Forecast - Today: Sunny, with a high near 93. West southwest wind 9 to 13 mph becoming northeast in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph. Tonight" Mostly clear, with a low around 60. Northeast wind around 11 mph.

10-13-2024 - 5:00 AM - According to Water Data for Texas, Wichita Falls reservoirs are: Arrowhead: 64.3 Kemp: 97.8% Kickapoo 67.3%. Monitored Water Supply Reservoirs are 79.4% full. The City of Wichita Falls uses the combined levels of Arrowhead and Kickapoo to determine drought stage.

10-13-2024 - 5:00 AM - NOAA SPACE WEATHER - Last 24 Hrs: Radio Blackouts (R - None) Solar Radiation Storms (S - None) Geomagnetic Storms (G1 - Minor) Current: Radio Blackouts (R - None) Solar Radiation Storms (S - None) Geomagnetic Storms (G - None) Solar Wind Speed: 470 km/sec Solar Wind Magnetic Fields: Bt 5 nT, Bz 0 nT Noon 10.7cm Radio Flux: 214 sfu.

10-13-2024 - 5:00 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 13,195 Megawatts.

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10-13-2024 - 5:00 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! I have nothing on the schedule for today other than a few football games. I might make one or two Parks on the Air® contacts. My coffee is ready.

10-12-2024 - I made contact with K2TNO at Carteret County State Game Land (US-6891) in North Carolina 20 meters (14 MHz) CW (Morse code) in the Amateur (ham) Radio Parks on the Air® program.

10-12-2024 - I watched the T-38s fly over the Cotton Bowl, and now I've got the scanner listening to the Air Band to catch their return to Wichita Falls.

10-12-2024 - NWS Forecast - Today: Sunny and hot, with a high near 98. South southwest wind 7 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Tonight: Clear, with a low around 66. South southeast wind 6 to 8 mph.

10-12-2024 - 5:12 AM - According to Water Data for Texas, Wichita Falls reservoirs are: Arrowhead: 64.6 Kemp: 97.8% Kickapoo 67.5%. Monitored Water Supply Reservoirs are 79.5% full. The City of Wichita Falls uses the combined levels of Arrowhead and Kickapoo to determine drought stage.

10-12-2024 - 5:12 AM - NOAA SPACE WEATHER - Last 24 Hrs: Radio Blackouts (R1 - Minor) Solar Radiation Storms (S - None) Geomagnetic Storms (G3 - Strong) Current: Radio Blackouts (R - None) Solar Radiation Storms (S - None) Geomagnetic Storms (G - None) Solar Wind Speed: 589 km/sec Solar Wind Magnetic Fields: Bt 6 nT, Bz 0 nT Noon 10.7cm Radio Flux: 214 sfu.

10-12-2024 - 5:12 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 12,042 Megawatts.

Firing Range Safety at Fort Polk (now Johnson), Louisiana

10-12-2024 - 5:12 AM - Good Morning! It's Saturday, and the Montague County Simplex Net kicks off at 9 AM on 147.500 MHz. You'll need a good outside antenna to listen in from Wichita Falls. A trip to the 8th and Austin Street edition of the Wichita Falls Farmers Market and Natural Grocers are the only "outside" activities planned for today. Someone said Sheppard AFB will have four T-38s fly over the Cotton Bowl game today. We shall see. My coffee is ready!

10-11-2024 - From the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission - NPW Group Recalls Halloween Projector Flashlights Due to Fire and Burn Hazards; Sold Exclusively at Target ||||| Gimars Playpens Recalled Due to Entrapment and Suffocation Hazards; Violation of Federal Regulations for Play Yards; Imported by Shenzhen Jingdu Technology and Sold Exclusively on Amazon. |||| Fisher-Price Recalls More than 2 Million Snuga Infant Swings Due to Suffocation Hazard After 5 Deaths Reported. |||| Homewerks Worldwide Recalls Allen + Roth Lighted Bathroom Mirrors Due to Injury and Laceration Hazards; Sold Exclusively at Lowe's. |||| Reyhee Group and Jinling International Recall Droyd Fury Youth All-Terrain Vehicles (ATVs) Due to Laceration Hazard; Violation of Federal Regulations for ATVs. |||| Reyhee Group Recalls Droyd Multi-Purpose Helmets Due to Risk of Head Injury; Violation of Federal Regulations for Bicycle Helmets.

10-11-2024 - I heard someone sign off with a "44" instead of the usual "73" (Best Regards), or the sometimes-heard "72" from those running QRP or low-power. So, I had to go online to find the meaning of "44". I found that it's probably from the Worldwide Flora and Fauna folks who promote operating from the outdoors. The first "4" is for the four wind directions: North, East, South, and West, and the second four "4" is for the four elements: Earth, Water, Air and Fire.