Back in 2002 , during the initial formation of what is the AyreWolvez Military Aviation Association , I was approached and readily accepted an offer to bring together albeit short lived , but a race team that would compete in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, aka the CAMPING WORLD TRUCK SERIES today. With that I relocated from Jerome Idaho to Salt Lake City, with little to no consideration of ever returning to Idaho anywhere.
With service required by the Confederate Marine Air Corps, I engaged in a 3 year joint training command, and devoted 80% of my time split between military aviation A2A combat and AFRN broadcasting. The rest I took the opportunity to attempt to get going towing when it was snowing on a part leisure part hobby basis. Hey any extra income is always a good thing. But not getting back into the surface transportation including towing business full time. I had wings and loved it there. With increasing membership in the AyreWolvez the club was looking for a place to plant seeds in and grow a full on commercial radio station based on push the edge none church biased broadcasting and delivering news of and for military aviation enthusiasts and as a sideline do our part keeping those both going towing and trucking informed and entertained. Upon searching for call letters for the radio station that will still serve Utah from Wendover Utah, I discovered Wolf FM .Com which worked for us, as well. A commique between founder of WolfFM.com and us yielded much in the formation information of a web based internet radio station. AyreWolfFM kicked on the air in the spring of 2004. The need for a long term but secret location for research and warbird restoration and such brought about both CokeVille and Evanston Wyoming as prime locations. So in the winter of 2005/2006 I relocated from metro Utah to Wyoming. The events that followed were of such that much loss of equipment not to mention emotional loss ensued. The ability to attract much less put to work some measure of on air personalities, made me think of the radio school, at Boise State. If nothing more than a place to find new hires. I consulted with an associate, in Evanston , to come to Idaho in a look see. Understand I did not have any real plans on coming back to head in the sand Idaho. But that associate had a nose candy habit, and her significant male was in up to his neck in legal battles due to dealing nose candy. Thus I was thrust into a moving program. Hey I was in lust of the associate. Did not know much about the guy pal. Much of the basics of AyreWolfFM gear was lost, in the move, and much of my own self worth was shall we say subdued in the process. So here we are, it will take many years to regain that basic condition that we were in, in Evanston, but slowly we are getting there. Instead of buying and making due with prosumer, low grade broadcast equipment, the process is buying pro broadcast, gear and do it right, but is western Idaho the place to build the heart of AyreWolfFM? The FCC Allocation is a plus, but its not the only one, there is three others, available, one in American Falls, Arco, and Malta Idaho. All three are close to airports for the UCSMC Air Corps. Aka AyreWolvez. As far as Buhl that’s still prime, but the plan is to build that, get it up, find, train and put to work a station manager gleaned from the AyreWolvez and after such, me relocate back to metro Utah. I may have been born in Jerome, but I have no more love of Idaho. So much could be done, yet it seems as a real up hill march to get anything done. Except for the city of Boise or that immediate area, the only industries in Idaho that really bloom is production agriculture, and retirement. Both of which I’m not up to or ready to do. Nor have any serious desire too. Besides if 8-Fish does TV ads for $8,000.00 a pop, imagine what would happen if someone namely the AyreWolvez were to put up a studio and do TV video production for even 1% of that? That could mean good daily income for the club. I could live with that. But the infrastructure resources needed for that just are not going to be available in Idaho in my lifetime. So why not put me and AyreWolf Media in Utah?
That in my next blog.
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