May 24, 2025

This Week in Amateur Radio

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Maine

Via the ARRL: “Marty on the Mountain” Engstrom, N1ARY (SK)

Avid radio amateur, Marty Engstrom, N1ARY, of Fryeburg, Maine, has become a silent key. Generations of New England television viewers may know him as Marty on the Mountain from his weather reports on camera for WMTW-TV from the station’s transmitter site on Mount Washington in Gorham, New Hampshire.

Engstrom was known to quip that he was not intentionally in the weather business: “I’m a TV engin…

Read more – via American Radio Relay League | Ham Radio Association and Resources http://www.arrl.org/news/view/marty-on-the-mountain-engstrom-n1ary-sk