Very interesting, Ron.

In my mind, the original WKBW was a legend that will live on, along with 
stations like CKLW, WLS, WCFL, 77 WABC, and others.

That, to me, was when radio was really worth listening to.

I remember, in 1971, just on a whim while in college in Pennsylvania, I 
wrote a letter to Jack Armstrong who was at WKBW, and, would you believe it, 
I actually got a letter back, and it wasn't some general form letter either!

How many times will you get that today?

Unfortunately, I have since lost that letter, in all the moves I had to make 
before we got settled, but I still remember it.

On a related note, I remember traveling through the Buffalo NY area about 8 
or 10 years ago, and found Dan Nevereth or Sandy Beach on an FM station 
there.  I think it was 104.1.  Are those guys  still around?

73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Canazzi" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 1:09 AM
Subject: Re: slightly off topic, but maybe of interest to some


> Hi Tom,
>
> The pattern of WKBW was always a narrow beam to the north east and a
> narrower beam to the southeast.  There is a strong one--50 KW I believe in
> Oklahoma City and the FCC made sure that the 2 stations wouldn't step on
> each other.  WKBW was routinely heard in Sweden and Ireland and also 
> bombed
> into Washington DC, but you couldn't hear them in Florida worth anything 
> and
> much further west of the NY/PA border they were almost useless at night.