Al's Blog-o-Sphere

Every issue, QST runs a Q&A help article called The Doctor Is In that answers readers questions about Ham Radio. Usually they are technical topics and the answers can be quite helpful, particularily to the new Ham. But this one opened the column this month and I just have to give it my own answer. Continue Reading…

It was such a nice evening tonight, I decided to walk up to the corner to the drug store to get a few things. It’s only a couple blocks and it’s something I like to do. It’s just so close it seems wasteful to drive, unless I’m on my way to someplace else. Continue Reading…

… and watching too. To the best music show on TV. Has been for years and keeps getting better: Austin City Limits.

I’m watching Bonnie Raitt sing “Angel From Montgomery” with John Prine. Either one of them alone singing that song is one of my favorites, together, just sublime…

Tomorrow: Off to South Buffalo for the Goin’ South Feis. Regardless of how you feel aboout the organization, you have to admit, they throw a good party.

I’m all for regionalism, but I’m really sick of everyone hyphenating Buffalo and Niagara together.

For instance, some years ago, the NFTA stole any hope of the Niagara Falls airport ever having an identity by renaming the Buffalo airport as “Buffalo-Niagara International Airport.” Isn’t that kind of close to “Niagara Falls International Airport?” Yeah, the Buffalo airport serves the whole area, we get it, but why steal the identity from the struggling NF airport? Why kick it while it’s down?

Lately, every time you turn around, it’s Buffalo-Niagara this, Buffalo-Niagara that. I’m sick of it. I live in Niagara county and, while I like Buffalo, they are two different places. Stop trying to make the rest of the world think otherwise. (They really don’t care, anyway.)

I suppose, when a casino opens in Buffalo, it will be called “Buffalo-Niagara Casino” Please, don’t include us in that fiasco. We already have our own…

Whatever happened to “Niagara Frontier?”