W2KBW on WKBW

[WA3VJB]

I sure enjoy hearing our man Tom/KBW running 50,000 watts of AM.

Tom was on again last night for five hours of strapping QRO music and call-ins.
I heard Dog X-Ray listeners into the deep south and up through Canada.
For those who don't know him, it's Tom Scherer, W2KBW and half of the Buffalo Kilowatt Bookends typically found on 3815Kc AM in the late afternoons. He got dressed up last night to get on the BIG radio with his snap-jacks and cleats.
I admit, I had to go look that up.  He must have been quite the sight, there in the studio of the Big KB.

Here's that, opening with host Tom Donohue talks about "the flip side" of a 45 rpm record with hit songs on both sides.

http://www.wa3vjb.com/sound/Tom-FlipSide'.mp3


Curiously,the flip side of records had just come up before the show started, as a group of us on 3823Kc or so were discussing "oldies" like they would be playing later that night.
Paul, K2ORC brought out his wife Peg's box of 45s and had an impromptu trivia contest to name the B-sides of a given record. Gary/INR and Bud/BIL were well-qualified, John/JN was too young, and so was I to remember the "McGuire Sisters," and even the Buddy Holly example. My wife Pam's box of 45s is populated with the likes of Donny Osmond, so I didn't run and get it.

Later, I was moved to call Tom and get him and Tom Donohue to play a song that I remembered during last night's 75m exchanges.

http://www.wa3vjb.com/sound/50Kw.mp3

[WB2RJR]

Paul,

Next time you call ask them to play that WKBW famous song "Rats in my Room"  done by Danny Neaverth and Joey Reynolds back in about 1964.

I grew up only about a mile or so from the WKBW transmitter site and used to go camping in the woods behind the KB towers, still go there these days, to the small creek, to collect Middle Devonian fossils. I was right in their NE lobe and had to always have a 1520kc trap on all my antennas or all I could hear was them.

Here's their transmitter site:

http://www.fybush.com/site-030123.html

Here's an example of some of the fossils that occur there. These are from the old Penn Dixie quarry only about 1/2 mile from WKBW.

http://bingweb.binghamton.edu/~kwilson/Devonian/DevSites/pyritebs/PD%20Fossils/PDPyriteFossils.htm

73, Marty WB2RJR

[Steve - WB3HUZ]

"John/JN was too young, and so was I to remember the "McGuire Sisters,....."


Now that's funny, seeing how you're a good 15 years older than JN. Are you sure it's not just Alzheimer's setting in on your part?

[WA3VJB]

I missed the post until just now Steve, you've got that type face set for STEALTH instead of the hard-of-seeing, there sonny.

[Steve - WB3HUZ]

Old-buzzardom verified. Hit Control-+ and the browser should make any text larger.

[WA3VJB]

HEY !
THAT's COOL !!!

But, how does it know ?