Ready for DTV? Local stations are not!!!

Even though you have had months to prep for it, are you ready for the switch to Digital TV? Most likely not. If your waiting for both your local stations as well as satellite and or your cable company to be ready for the switch watch Saturday. Most local Idaho any way TV stations at least full powered stations wont be ready and even if they are able in Boise and metro areas , watch and see if your translator on top of the hill doesn't take until mid month to make the switch. Oh they say it'll be Saturday afternoon, but between piss poor weather and the fact that the big wigs at those stations do NOT CARE ABOUT RURAL Idaho, it'll be awhile. Now I could be wrong here, everything might go off without a hitch of the switch, but chances are your not going to get much if anything local news, weather and programming. After all it took both DirecTV and Dish to come to the party of local stations on their systems, nearly ten years. Of course it took our local stations nearly 15 years to convert to full digital operation. So watch and see. Of course local Low Power stations wont be effected since they are well LOW POWER stations. CH-39 out of Boise is one of those. Of course most will not care after all most of our visual entertainment from TV comes from other more cable type channels, but the locals are gone until July 1st. Now onto some other intel gathering. I saw on AD's shyt blog that as always the meth heads got it wrong again. In AD's blog it read by Anonomouse again that the money for the purchase(or-not) of the place in Bliss was coming from Sage. Not so. The money being obtained of which we as a club are putting up nearly 20% of is to put together the broadcasting station, not the place in Bliss. Money made by the station through advertising revenue would go to buy the place in Bliss and that purchase is still very shakey if it happens at all. The Radio/TV station for Rural Idaho will be erected in between Nampa and Caldwell Idaho, with sub stations in GF, Buhl, American Falls, and Arco Idaho. Long range plans also are looking at Wendover and Woodruff Utah. With TV station only in or near Montpelier Idaho. Again it proves AD and his shyt crew don't know everything. It's called Meth brain. Saw where a few rigs on my block got red tagged last night into early morning. Oops, can you say IMPOUND? Any mile Air Combat is on TV, so L8R Aviators,

 

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I haven't spoken to my mother-in-law for eighteen months—I don't like to interrupt her.
--Ken Dodd

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REMINDER 214 ON MIL CHANNEL 06-18

Just a quick reminder that on 18-06-09 The Military Channel (287 DirecTV) an episode about our beloved Corsair and Pappy will be featured on Air Combat TV at 01:00 Hours. Will be worth watching. Tune in this will be a keeper. L8R Aviators,

Quote of the Day:
It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
--Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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It's Thursday

Now I could have said another manic Monday but I thought I'd refrain from that. Great weights are off my wings and I'm feeling much better. Although my jaw still smarts enuff and all the swelling is going down and I'm healing and although its difficult to say this, there was a positive side effect, not being able to intake fuel as fast as a C-5-A , which is helping me get to my goal of 175 pounds, total body weight and that's good since that means I can retrain and regain my GA , and that means getting back in the ayre. I want to thank my 2nd cousin Kim for flying me both to SLC to do business and then to Preston to the funeral for my cousin Janeen, then back here to GF. So not bad and again thanks Kim. On the flyte back this evening Kim and I were talking about how do we as the Wolf Pack, of the AyreWolvez recruit as well as just interest youth into the club? After all once we were young without direction, what about youth who look to the sky, for a career? Even to ag aviation to be a career? The Wolf Pack will soon begin intel gathering to gain some idea, of how many if there are at all, FFA or 4-H programs geared towards ag aviation or created for those interested in ag aviation. Before y'll go shaking your fingers think this. When part of the foundation of the AyreWolvez were looking at going trucking, without any youth groups into high gear hauling, that did not stop us in gathering together cb radio enthusiasts as well as those gearheads into vintage rigs, and creating the TeenAge Truckers Association 4-H club. So why not create a youth group to bring in those who wants to fly brought together as a 4-H or FFA chapter or course? I'll begin investigating that next week or so. Someone suggested elsewhere that they thought the Wolf Pack and/or I was not still looking at doing things to get us on TV on RFDTV. Wrong. That is still the main target through our cross hairs. But we have to have a place as well as the gear, not to mention the full staff in place to allow those seeds to germinate. So far while the field has been plowed and partly planted, I'm concerned about the fields that those seeds are in. GF is just not it, and even as great as both Hazzard and even the greater Gooding/Jerome County area is, there are not a ton and a half of broadcast experienced people to hire, nor any local training in any local institution of higher learning. The only place in Idaho where I can see that the field might be more enriched is the greater Boise area. But the major hold back is money. Not only the monthly rent on a space as well as close neighbors who might not be able to stomach a radio/tv station studio next door, but basic equipment to get on the air ain't cheap nether. The heart of any radio studio is the mixer consol. At the low end of the scale is a board or consol, from a company call ARRAKIS , which runs just a bit over $1,500.00 to really full featured boards that run in just under $20,000.00 . The furniture that makes up the rest of the infrastructure, along with mics, codecs, cd and dvd players and other audio processing gear and at minimum your looking at $50,000.00 just to get up to the point to launch the network into airspace. While there are inexpensive consumer and prosumer gear that get the thing up and flowing over Internet streaming and so on, to have anything on the cyberayre 24-7 365 on demand is going to take some serious examination of available talent, gaining some incoming sales revenue, along with some fund raising gigs. So even though the battle plan is to be in the Boise area by August 1st and even then the only real full time employee will be Becky, the real on ayre date is about March next year along with being on RFDTV by this time next year. We did not loose the war here, just did a retreat, to regroup and replan the attack. But attack we will. One of those fund raisers is a 2010/2011 24 month AyreWolvez/Warbyrd calendar. Which goes into basic prep production in July, then sell same at area ayreshows, The Western Idaho State Fair, the Eastern Idaho State Fair, Cassia County Fair, and the Twin Falls County Fair. As well as at AgriAction in February 2010 in Twinky Flatts . Any mile need to get some rest. Big day Friday. See ya'll later.

 

Quote of the Day:
It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
--Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Psalm 46:10“Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) NIV. All Rights Reserved.