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10-22-2024 - 6:00 AM - Good Morning! I usually start my day with Morse code on the 40-meter band running in the background while my coffee is brewing. This morning is no different. Wichita Falls has entered Stage 1 drought condistions because the capacities of lakes Kickapoo and Arrowhead have dropped below 65%. This is not what we need headed into Winter.
10-21-2024 - I made contact with WK0E at Fort Atkinson State Historical Park (US-2615) in Nebraska on 20 meters (14 MHz) CW (Morse code) in the Amateur (ham) Radio Parks on the Air® program.
10-21-2024 - According to local news reports, Wichita Falls will soon get an Amazon "last-mile" distribution center. The location will be the Wichita Falls Business Park near Fisher Road. That'll put a dent in any unemployment problems we might have.
10-21-2024 - Have you seen these pads northeast of Iowa Park, on the north side of Bacon Switch Road, between Peterson Road and Rifle Range Road? Helipads? Sheppard AFB did have helicopters in the 1960s. A remote rendezvous point for Fort Wolters helicopter students? A spaceport? Building foundations? I first saw them in the early 1980s when I did a lot of flying at the Wichita Valley Airport. Very interesting.
10-21-2024 - FEMA Daily Operations Briefing for October 21, 2024
National Current Ops / Monitoring – October 20-21, 2024
New Significant Incidents / Ongoing Ops:
• TC Milton / TC Helene – Southeast and Mid-Atlantic
Hazard Monitoring:
• Rain / Thunderstorms – Cental Plains and Middle Mississippi Valley
• Mixed Precipitation – Pacific Northwest to the Rockies
• Tropical Activity:
Atlantic:
• Tropical Storm Oscar
Eastern Pacific:
• Disturbance 1: High (90%)
Disaster Declaration Activity:
• No new declaration activity
Event Monitoring:
• No new significant events
10-21-2024 - Either I didn't know or forgot that we had a "Wichita Falls Steelers" semi-pro football team. They were part of the American Football Association and had an office in the Fremar Valley Shopping Center at 3108 Seymour Highway. I saw this while thumbing through the 1978 Wichita Falls City Directory.
10-21-2024 - NWS Forecast - Today: Sunny, with a high near 86. South wind 7 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph. Tonight: Mostly clear, with a low around 65. South wind 10 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
10-21-2024 - 5:20 AM - According to Water Data for Texas, Wichita Falls reservoirs are: Arrowhead: 63.4 Kemp: 96.5% Kickapoo 65.9. Monitored Water Supply Reservoirs are 78.2% full. The City of Wichita Falls uses the combined levels of Arrowhead and Kickapoo to determine drought stage.
10-21-2024 - 5:20 AM - NOAA SPACE WEATHER - Last 24 Hrs: Radio Blackouts (R0 - 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: 349 km/sec Solar Wind Magnetic Fields: Bt 4 nT, Bz 4 nT Noon 10.7cm Radio Flux: 162 sfu.
10-21-2024 - 5:34 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 10,118 Megawatts.
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10-21-2024 - Good Morning! It's Monday, and early voting begins today. The Dodgers beat the Mets and will go to the World Series vs the Yankees. I'm listening to CW (Morse code) on the 40-meter Amateur (ham) Radio band for practice. I have contacted 373 stations in the Parks on the Air® program since January 1 of this year. My Folgers Black Silk coffee is ready!
10-20-2024 - I made contact with N0GRP at Wagner State Conservation Area (US-10580) in Missouri on 20 meters (14 MHz) CW (Morse code) in the Amateur (ham) Radio Parks on the Air® program.
10-20-2024 - According to a report on Texoma's Home Page (KFDX Channel 3), another person has died after driving into the concrete barricade at the south side of the intersection of Sheppard Access Road and North Scott. I think this is the third such incident at that location over the last five years.
10-20-2024 - It's Simplex Sunday, a day to give those Amateur Radio repeaters a break if possible and 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!
10-20-2024 - FEMA Daily Operations Briefing for October 20, 2024
National Current Ops / Monitoring – October 19-20, 2024
New Significant Incidents / Ongoing Ops:
• TC Helene/TC Milton – Region IV
Hazard Monitoring:
• Severe Thunderstorms/Heavy Rain/Flash Flooding – New Mexico
• Tropical Activity:
Atlantic:
• Tropical Storm Nadine
• Hurricane Oscar (Cat 1)
Eastern Pacific:
• Disturbance 1: High (90%)
Disaster Declaration Activity:
• Approval: Major Disaster Declaration – North Carolina
Event Monitoring:
• No significant events
10-20-2024 - At 6:40 AM, the main players on the scanner radio are Walmart (154.570 MHz), the State Hospital (154.800 MHz), and the remote broadcast of Air Route Traffic Control Center transmissions (364.800 MHz). Check more scanner frequencies at Scanner Frequencies for Wichita Falls. To fill the listening gap, I've got CW (Morse code) running on the Yaesu 857D radio.
10-20-2024 - NWS Forecast - Today: Sunny, with a high near 83. East wind 5 to 9 mph. Tonight: Clear, with a low around 55. Southeast wind 6 to 9 mph.
10-20-2024 - 5:20 AM - According to Water Data for Texas, Wichita Falls reservoirs are: Arrowhead: 63.5 Kemp: 96.5% Kickapoo 66.1%. Monitored Water Supply Reservoirs are 78.3% full. The City of Wichita Falls uses the combined levels of Arrowhead and Kickapoo to determine drought stage.
10-20-2024 - 5:20 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: 421 km/sec Solar Wind Magnetic Fields: Bt 5 nT, Bz 2 nT Noon 10.7cm Radio Flux: 162 sfu.