Ok, how do you know this? 
I still tune “KB” once in a while. Late fall through winter after the sun goes down I can get it in the car radio. They are now Liberal Talk radio which is just as screwed up as Conservative Talk Radio. A few years back they tried to bring back the 50’s & 60’s format with some of the original DJ’s. My friend Hank Nevins was Program Director during that era. They pulled the plug on him just as he was getting good traction in selling the format.
BTW - My amateur radio call is W1KBW.
I thought you were going to tell me you used the 50,000 watts to find Buffalo when you were lost on your cross country mission.
Steve, I know this 'cause I drove to Florida three times. As for homing in on WKBW, as I recall my Cessna didn’t have a radio detection thingy or whatever. Just Omni.
Jon, since you brought up your radio buddy, mine was Jack Sharp, the traffic reporter at WEBR, who let me come by on Friday nights and hang around the studio. I got to know Gene Kelly and Lucky Pierre, but Jack was an actual bud because he was a car guy who once owned a Ferrari 165MM and was involved in a 266 inboard hydroplane named Miss Genesee and driven by Gordie Reed, who was a member of the Niagara Frontier Boat Racing Association, as was I. I had a used outboard hydro, which I raced one time on Delaware Park Lake, prolly the only time the city let boats race there. Rest of the time it was on the river in front of the Isle View, which is where the park is now–at the foot of Two Mile Creek Rd, where I was a passenger in a car that went off road and sheared off a power pole during a sleet storm early on New Years Eve morning. Walked away without a scratch, which is more than I could say for one of my pals who got thrown out of the car and messed up his face, arms and such. The driver also was unscathed. Too much information?
Always wanted to go to those hydro races on the river but never seemed to get there :[
I can remember, as a kid, visiting my uncle’s home on Lake Washington during the hydroplane races and watching Miss Budweiser, Slo Mo, and the others running on the course, both before and during the races. Those Merlins and Allisons definitely had a roar to them. Very distinctive. I can still hear them.
So how did this thing get from trains to planes to boats…
Ken Brunt said:
So how did this thing get from trains to planes to boats…
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By…(http://freightsheds.largescalecentral.com/users/noelw/Smilies/10_1_137.gif)Tracks to Air to Water… lol.
Sorry Ken… I woke early, Doggie wanted out.
OK, first, this thread is awash (ha, ha) so we might as well stay adrift. If anyone don’t like it they can “move along, nothing to see here.” Steve, right you are. Them old Allison and Rolls Merlyn boats were, to quote a trite descriptive, 'Awesome." When they were riding on their sponsons with the engine reving and overreving, the sound was spine tingling. And the water spray from the prop! What a sight! There was a boat called, “Oh Boy, Oberto,” and everytime I see their salami at Safeway, I think of that boat. Back in the day, a grossly underfunded group in Buffalo purchased a used “Oberto” hull and renamed it the “Miss Buffalo,” which was driven by Bob Schroeder, whose father Ed “Pop” Schroeder built some legendary inboard hyrdoplanes in his tiny shop in Wheatfield, which is near Niagara Falls. Alas, Miss Bflo was a slug, mostly because it was Allison powered. And we know that Allisons couldn’t touch Rolls Merlyns. Pity that today, we have turbine powered boats, which although sensational to watch, can’t match the spectacle of the recip engine boats.