Wales' first eco-friendly radio station is to start broadcasting via a hilltop transmitter powered by wind and solar energy.
It has mains electricity to back up its wind and sun power.
Mr George - a baptist minister in the village of Llandysilio - said the station would use the mast on the Preseli Hills to broadcast 24 hours a day to north Pembrokeshire and west Carmarthenshire.
Funding for the 28-day project has come via the European Union's Objective One scheme and from the Welsh Assembly Government.
"We can only broadcast up to 5km from the studio, but using the transmitter near Maenclochog, we should be able to reach as far away as Weston-super-Mare, Cornwall, and even southern Ireland," he said.
The daily running order of the station has yet to be decided, but its character is already well defined.In one episode of the programme, actor Dawn French, who played the vicar, fronted a community radio station with a difference.
"We're not having the traditional weather forecasts. Instead, we've got a local farmer - Twm Tywy' - coming in.
"Instead of talking about fahrenheit and centigrade, he'll be telling us more important things, like: 'It's nice enough to go to Tenby today', or 'It's ok to mow the grass'."
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