The Up front Report

So let’s be clear about this. First the move to Utah is not a runaway from anything, in fact its more a migration to things better. It’s really nobody’s fault on the overall view of things. Yes we got our rear ends reamed from CenturyLink, EarthLink, Cable-One and a host of others. SpeedConnect is good, but does not have the octane to fuel the needs HazzardAyre Radio. The area here is not receptive to anything without the religious seal of approval, and I’m not just talking Mormons, heck the LDS church truckers are into HazzardAyre as much if not more than most, the log into our email and send song requests more than allot of ya’ll. Nope that’s not it. But the demise of HazzardAyre at least in the Tragic Valley of Idaho, started with Charlie’s wife last year. The very moment she told a bunch of her friends and all that we were full of dung, the ability to recruit, train and put on air anyone female was nullified. But we muddled through summer doing okay, always getting an inquiry from our postings on CraigsList , for everything from on camera to on air talent searches. Few called, one even drove down from Boise, but sadly did not remain. Apparently she did not understand the concept of rat rods or trucks and did not want to cohabitate in a studio or elsewhere with bikers. The limited ability to look beyond the cover and get under the hood, was beyond their capabilities. So then came late August out of sheer desperation and in anticipation of our website finally seeing daylight, I signed up for internet service with Cable-One. Cable-One promises 70 mps . That 70 mps is down only. Sure you can groove on tunes from YouTube, trouble is uploading is at a mere 5 to 6 mps at that’s pushing it. We needed more grunt for the buck. Then came the hidden charges, having to pay up front $400.00 first months bill plus another up front. Really? Sure the radio werx can generate that, but understanding HazzardAyre’s main source of funding is split between what AyreWolf Aviation and The Department of Defense. We are on air on AFRTS, the militaries radio network. During both July and August AyreWolf Aviation was busy battling wildfires in partnership with the forest service. Another government funded operation. Both exhausted the financial resources, of both AyreWolf Aviation. We had hoped to collect money in October but the Government shut down. All the while Cable-One’s bill kept coming. I called at least every other week, but the threat of getting unplugged was there. Fearing that the board of directors for the Knytes the governing body of HazzardAyre Radio, and I just could not cough up what Cable-One was charging, plus we really never did get what we were promised. Of course we had several outfits say they could improve the thing, but even my cell phone provider main company Syringa, Wireless could not supply what we needed in an economical rate. They wanted damn near $800,000.00 that’s a ton of money just to drag the fiber optic line from the source here. When Comcast in Utah can offer the same basic service at $250.00 a month, with almost equal mps rpms means greater bandwidth, meaning a better sound. Added to that talent agencies so no more CraigsList want ads for people who don’t show up. Now there are those that would say, but you run the station as it is now from your house. No gal is going to go there. Understand in Utah, Bountiful to be exact, we not only had gals show up but get on air. This in where I lived in a rent controlled habitat. There were old ladies in their nightgowns, running all over and yet we still were able to bring in recruits. No run ins with the local law. We were on a roll. My only trouble was I got P-whipped in Evanston followed her and ultimately ended up here. As far as toewing. Dig this, I wasn’t even legal to be going toewing in Utah, yet UHP and the Weber/Morgan Sheriffs office was running us from the Echo split to Ogden. Utah gives someone a break, not trash em before you get out the door or even in the starting gate.

When it comes to Comcast, I really loved the way their person Laura the other day took care of our needs, even having to reschedule and will have to again for mid February instead of January, but she was so sweet. I’d kick this relocate further into gear, but both my economics running toews this time of year, and same weather prevents me from getting out of here before the end of January. There’s a ton of things that need to be done first. First and the most important get a new Trustee for club and my money funds. Hey its good to have someone in a spot to make me pull up my boot straps once in awhile. Then there is all the rest of the Government money shuffle from My military and Social Security, to the money the club relies on for HazzardAyre Radio. Then there is utility turn on’s, then finding a place for my trucks, then moving everything, it’s going to be one long and bumpy ride, and that is if the weather co-operates. If I could do here , what I see can be done in Metro Utah, I’d stop everything and stay right here. But the sad fact is they can’t and I’d much rather deal with Comcast with as nice a people as Laura, rather than the pitbull attitude, of Cable-One. Now do I fault Charlie? Yes and no. I only fault him in not looking at the big picture. He took over bean counting and distribution duties, but thought having me in Twin Falls rather than Burley was a good thing. All it did was put me behind the 8 ball. First the move from Burley to Twin here, killed the shop. No rework on LexiBelle or Wolf-Pup. Then no free internet or cable and that stopped me seeing the 5th season of Son’s more over restricted the elevation of HazzardAyre into what it is and even greater. HazzardAyre is set to go both Satellite Radio in 2016 , more over its own cable / Satellite TV channel. Meaning the resources to sustain that are not in Twin Falls, barely there in Burley . However the human and technology resources are in Metro Utah. The final groove once I loose more weight, and do a major overhaul on my academic abilities, puts me in the cockpit, in control as I should be of AyreWolf Aviation, along with my 3rd cousin. There is no good flight schools versed in rotor craft(helicopter) flight in Twin Falls. Upper Limit Aviation is able to get me there. So that’s why the relocate, but just partly. There still is the task, of securing a person to do the local connection here for HazzardAyre Radio from our station over in Buhl. Whether or not that sells or not remains to be completed. Until then those candles have to stay lit, that means a local studio, and at least 3 people to run it. Two on airs, and one engineer. I would have done more of this over the last part of November through December, but ya’ll can’t do hardly anything during the holidays. Plus I gotta run the truck. No time, thus the delay.

Any myle, big day Monday so I’m outta here but thought you should know what’s going on Up Front and Serious. But before I go, is there a better way for one to take a blood sugar reading other than poking your finger?

L8R Ya’ll

  

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