More Up Front & Serious on HazzardAyre Radio

The manure piles getting deeper. Got a inquiry from a gal from who knows where wanting to be an on air person here at HazzardAyre Radio. Before I get into the problems of technology and limited flow through the cyber fiber pipeline, let me try to define what HazzardAyre Radio is, how it came to be and why its vitally important.

In 1974 a small group of CB radio nuts along with myself got together along with help of our parents in a bigger CB radio organization and formed what was the JR-14 CB Club. As time went on, of course CB’s meant tuning in on truckers. We wanted to grind gears but age limitations stopped that to a point. There were still plenty of us doing farm hauling chores as well as using small ton and half trucks with gooseneck trailers. Of course there were guys like myself who were piloting toew trucks. So as time went on we formed the first and only 4-H truck transportation group called the TeenAge Truckers Association. Loosely mirroring the Independent Truckers Association or ITA, the ITA had the famous magazine called Overdrive. We wanted something too. But thought was radio. The only 24/7/365 voice of the highway. Some negotiation with a high school in northern Idaho and some rather old radio gear came to the small town called Hagerman that was nick named Hazzard, ya’ll know why if you’ve been paying attention. Any myle we went on the air as KDSL or KAY-DIESEL for short at 89.1. Not enough to be a big station power wise, in fact most days and even nights if we got past Wendell, or here to Twin Falls we were lucky. But Luck was on our side if you want to call it that. We started selling radio air time for advertising at $50.00 flat a month. No matter how many times the ad aired during the month. Don’t sound like a lot but with 30 people at $50.00 well you do the math. We now by the highway charge $100.00 a month flat.

We were hammer down on the airwaves, until a program director heard about us and his sidekick sales manager found we were kicking their balls, sales volume wise. So one day here came the Trusty FCC, over we had a long conversation and got legal. In May 1983 officially KTOW or KAY TOW radio went on the air at 105.7 FM, at 50,000 watts. So much so we became the only official NBC station in Idaho. We were airing everything from TalkNet to Dr. Ruth. Of course in 1978, I was well in the Marines. Shortly after of course in 1983 Mom died just before we as a radio station got legal. I was bummed out, and moved to Boise the following year. The station went dark but not dead. Years past and in 2009 the reworked Hazzard County Knytes Kustmz Association , became the Knytes-of-Anarchy. We said lets refire the station. New license, new call letters the works. Buhl and surrounding area, had numerous spots on the dial but we hold fast on our original frequency but sold the call letters in 2011. But I’m getting ahead of myself. In 2009 we fired up in the small town of Gooding, Idaho. KTOW went up and began blowing away everything in its path. Of course by now our previous shows such as Dixie Diesel and Hazzard County radio was going like a sparkler to dry hay. Going back 10 years from there, in 2000 I had just came home here from service to this damn nation of ours, and discovered in a hangar in Jerome Idaho, not one, not two but 4 F4U Corsairs, world war two fighters for those that do not know. So the Hazzard Knytes decided to create a subsidiary called at first the BlackSheep Flying Club, that went to the BlackSheep Vintage Aviation Association, and was reborn in 2001 in Utah as the AyreWolvez Aviation Association. In 2002 just before the bubble burst for the Montgomery Foundation which is about to be recovered, but I was looking over possible call letters for the station, in Utah. When I discovered a gig out in Nashville ran by a guy named Steve Wolf, who ran a thing called WolfFM.com . Understand the man is blind in a wheelchair with a service dog. But he was on the cyber air. I said to the club, that’s how to do this. At the time, the concept of web casting and Internet radio was beyond the comprehension of anybody building websites here in Idaho or even Utah. We got bids from $500.00 to over $15k. But nobody would show us or tell us what we needed on our end. I’ve always prayed that someone that really knew how to do this , for fair pay and accommodations, would fly, drive, here to where we are at, build the system, and well engineer the damn thing.

So in 2009 we were in Gooding. Going like wyldfyre, when money and mail stopped. Post office there had mucho excuses, but I think it was a thing created by the Real Estate guy who rented us the office, and the Post master there. No money, no rent, Richard Strickland legally stole our gear. But at the end a concept was about to pop. We had started running a one and only radio show dedicated to old vintage warbird aircraft. Telling of the stories of those birds, the pilots, the battles everything. Called AyreWolf Radio. Even then on air talent was on short supply. I was running the toew truck, doing 3 radio shows, and still trying to find time to sleep, eat, and well go to the latrine. Took my old Lexi to a local wrench up there thinking he’d cut us a break, but no stiffed me $700.00 to R&R a carb and replace two fuel lines. Still ain’t fixed right, but that’s a subject for a different time. But I got tyred. Moved to Buhl almost within eye sight of the new station studio’s, and near asleep got an awakening, the name of the show, network the website all of it. Again mashing words together, HazzardAyre, Hazzard County Radio, coupled to AyreWolf Radio. This was before Warbird Radio and the like, in fact 1 year before Warbird Radio was created from our initial project ideas. Now lets face it, Yankees have no real knowledge of the rebel south. None. They envision Abe Lincoln as a honest guy, not realizing a bunch of lies, and history too deep to go into here, they need to be educated. I found this network from a recommendation of a member called Dixie Broadcasting . com . I liked what I heard. So thought became take that , add some Hazzard County spice, melt it together, with military aviation history and all that is AyreWolf Radio. And put the thing on the air. So call letters needed to be found. After a lot of searching we fell on KDXB or K-Dixie Broadcasting LLC Mountain West. Sadly though through all the turmoil over the outfits to give us the volume to the cyber pipeline we really need on a budget. We missed the filing deadline for Low Power FM’s, we had all the critters in a row, except we needed (still do) a resident engineer, at least 3 on airs, mostly female as the male anchors will be club members, and one gal to co anchor with me overnight. If one wants to pick out who of Sons of Anarchy I look like, its Bobby. The long hair bearded big guy. Kind as a Teddy bear unless riled. Apparently, being alone in a house studio, with a biker scares the jeeveies out of most of the limited focused women around here. Me personally I don’t see anything wrong with it or any different, doing a show here in the house with many neighbors, or being alone with me in a studio in a remote office downtown with nobody around. But I guess there’s a difference, guess one has to have a vagina to understand it. But understand, from 4 stations situated in good spots, in the Mountain West the northern voice of the Confederacy will be heard. Buhl Idaho, American Falls Idaho, Fort Bridger Wyoming and the one we are working on now, in Woodruff Utah, just north of Evanston Wyoming. Studios in Utah, Buhl, and Wyoming. If a cyber engineer wanted a challenge here it is. More over create a website to carry it on the Internet for less than $1,500.00 . Even less than $1,000.00 . I just wish we could get just one or two computer types, web and guts , to come here to Idaho to start, and build the pipeline, while I’m working on the studio in Layton to power the station in Woodruff. Okay Sunset, but Layton is easier to find on a map. The club would be happy to pay transportation costs, lodging etc, to get someone here to build this. We have a partner in Portland Oregon called Abacast, that will host the site and all, but we need someone to come here and build it. Hey I’m a in front of the mic guy, not the behind the mic, or nuts and bolts person of this okay. What I know about computers could fill a sewing thimble and not much else.

Any myle, got lots to do but that’s what HazzardAyre Radio and soon to be TV is all about. Think of us as a refined Duck Dynasty , done Hazzard style.

L8R Ya’ll

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