I guess I should have made this more clear since there might be a few folks that didn’t get it the first time likewise newcomers.
When Dixie Diesel Radio fired for the first time, as Long Haul Radio we fired from a studio in my home of my mom & dad just outside of Hagerman Idaho that big house on the hill between the two fish hatcheries, that overlooks Oster Ponds there.
Back then we came off the hill at a whooping 150 watts from some transmission gear, and other radio gear salvaged from a high school in Lewiston Idaho. Of course by mid year 84 shortly after my parents had passed away, the concept by those much greedier than I decided I should move to Boise. So Long Haul Radio went into syndication.
Think of syndication as the factory, our media arm would produce and record, then on cassettes and send it out to area radio stations. Other radio stations we’ll call the delivery point. Those stations would then air the show at their own time.
In 1989, Dixie Diesel Radio as it is, launched from an outlaw station of ours in Blackfoot, Idaho. But again those much greedier than I sold our facility in Blackfoot, and I moved to Utah.
Of course as I related yesterday , this was 1995, the Dixie Diesel Shop had expanded and included both Cooter’s Kustmz and what is now Hazzard County Choppers, opened as Lone Eagle Choppers of Springville Utah. Understand I had no real interest for many reasons of ever moving back to Idaho, especially western Idaho, too expensive for little return.
Of course that big 1,000 foot antenna on top of Bell Rapids still sat, and all inside was there although gathering nothing more than squirrels and spiders.
I was nesting well in Pocatello, when the situation between a bikini bar bouncer and a supposedly job offer in Glenn’s Ferry brought me west again.
Once out here thought by the Knytes, let’s fire this radio gig back up.
After a zillion letters, phone calls, and mucho paper work, we had the operation put back together except FCC License filing.
No filing windows or opportunities were available. So we started working on getting the station streaming. Except, there is NO ONE in western Idaho smart enough to do that, so that still is in construction stage.
Then notice of an October filing window opens, meaning applications for licenses pending will go first. Ours will be granted first, followed by many others.
We have been lucky in that the FCC has allowed our two channels to remain ours, both channels, 105.7, Buhl Idaho and 105.3 in Malta Idaho, as well as the next expansion of 93.7 American Falls.
By mid February 2014 we look to be fully back on air, with much more juice than we ever have had before, 250,000 watts of clear FM radio celebrating, educating the powerful voice of today’s confederacy and the preservation of southern culture and history.
KDXB will be our call letters in Buhl, KDXC in Malta, and KDOH in American Falls.
But Dixie Diesel is us, and Dixie Diesel remains heard from coast to coast on great radio stations across America through live syndication.
Now if we can just find cover girls for the website.
That in my next blog entry.
Now back to the show.
L8r Haulers,
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