When we’re in the Phoenix/Wickenburg area, we listen to KSWG-FM 96.3 “Real Country” radio. The genre is country and western but the difference between this station and those we have in the Los Angeles area is that KSWG plays both old and new country hits.
While we seldom hear Johnny Cash and Merle Haggard in L.A. it is a regular thing to hear the old classic C&W stars in Wickenburg and Phoenix. They also play many of the current country music hits as long as they’re not that hip hop crap played on the L.A. C&W outlets.
As soon as we cross over the Harcuvar Mountain pass on US 60 in La Paz County, we are within the station’s coverage area. We then tune the SUV radio to 96.3 and enjoy the remaining 60 miles of the drive to our new home town while listening to Real Country.
Gee, and I thought this post was going to be about you getting back on-the-air at the new place!
C’mon….put up a dipole or vertical…you know you want to!
Well, I used to enjoy mountain top VHF contesting but now a little too old and tired for that. I also have DXCC (all CW contacts). I have done a lot of things with radio including digital communications (used to run a BBS), worked Hawaii and thirteen other states and British Columbia on 2 meters. One year I won the single operator award for the Los Angeles Section VHF/UHF contest. I have done VLF, meteors, satellite, ATV, slow scan, QRP, X-band, RTTY and for two years I was ARRL Section Manager for LAX Section.
That being said, I **might** get interested again. There’s just no hurry and we have a new house to furnish and an old one to get ready for sale. The radio endorphins are in low supply.
You’re killin’ me! You get to move from the PDRK to Arizona, and I feel left out!
Save yourself Crotalus – with old “Moonbeam” in charge again, the PDRK is doomed.