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A Hobby Radio Communications Adventure
03-24-2026 - 6:00 AM - Good Morning! It’s Tuesday, and it just occurred to me that I haven’t used an alarm clock since 2012. Nice! I saw another heated online discussion about how impossible it was to talk to astronauts on the moon. I think half of them are trolls. My Folgers Black Silk coffee is ready!
--- 6:10 AM - NWS Short Range Weather Discussion
--- 6:15 AM - NWS Extended Range Weather Discussion
--- 7:30 AM - My local school buses are just about finished dropping off their load of kids. Now, they can rest up for the afternoon run: picking them up and taking them home. Well, at least to the school bus stop nearest their home. Students are always a little more animated on the afternoon runs. They’re really supercharged on Friday afternoons. If your local school buses use radios, you might want to invest in a scanner radio. It’s cheap entertainment.
--- 11:09 AM - I contacted a station in Buzzard Roost Heritage Preserve Wildlife Management Area (US-3890) in South Carolina on 20 meters (14 MHz) CW (Morse code) in the Amateur (ham) Radio Parks on the Air® program.
--- 11:20 AM - The 20-meter Amateur (ham) Radio band seems to be in much better condition than it has been the last week. I'll take a guess that the other "upper" bands are likewise healthy. Checking the CB Radio band, I see that it's in good shape, also.
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03-23-2026 - 5:30 AM - Good Morning! It’s Monday, and it was an uneventful “radio” weekend. The HF bands (Ham and CB Radio) were a little flat, as they have been for the last week. The sun has not been very generous in this matter. As I’ve said before, I don’t check the “space weather” forecast. I turn the radio on. Either the bands are open, or they’re not. So, I turned the radio on this morning, and there is Morse code to be found on the 40-meter Amateur (ham) Radio band! My Folgers Black Silk coffee is ready.
--- 5:40 AM - FEMA Daily Operations Briefing
--- 5:45 AM - NWS Short Range Weather Discussion
--- 5:50 AM - NWS Extended Range Weather Discussion
--- 1:30 PM - An arriving commercial jet slammed into a fire truck crossing the active runway at LaGuardia Airport. The two pilots were killed, and many were injured. No doubt, many area scanner radio enthusiasts heard the live radio traffic. It’s not the kind of traffic we want to hear, but things happen.
--- 3:00 PM - Reminiscent of the COVID epidemic, I was wondering how many people are hoarding gasoline due to the Iran “thing”. During COVID, I remember seeing guys in pickup trucks pumping gas into huge containers in the truck bed. The most I’ve thought of doing is maybe 10 gallons for my Generator. Hopefully, there will be no need to hoard gas now, as there was none during COVID.