Old Vacation TV observations from way back

[Peter Q. George]

--- Doug Drown <revdoug1@verizon.net> wrote:

> >Who can forget Marty Engstrom
> from the mountain with the weather and his signature
> smile at the end!
> 
> Marty is still with us; he's been retired several
> years.  He had a big fan 
> club, you know, and IIRC they had a celebration in
> his honor shortly after 
> he got through.

Marty was favorite for many people, for years. 
Channel 8 was always there, even south of Boston (on a
good day).  It was fun watching Marty from the
mountain, even 200 miles away!  What a time!
> 
> >Even WCAX/3 from Burlington would show up from
> time-to-time.
> 
> I was visiting some people in West Forks, Maine, one
> day a number of years 
> ago; West Forks is between Bingham and Jackman, on
> the main highway to 
> Quebec City.  They lived way up on a hill.  They had
> an antenna rotor and 
> could get both WCAX, which came in very well, and
> CHSJ-TV in Saint John, 
> which was quite watchable but a little snowy.  The
> two cities are close to 
> 500 miles apart.   Bangor, Sherbrooke and Quebec
> City came in as though they 
> were next door.   -Doug
> 

That's amazing!  They probably had the most variety of
TV stations anywhere.  That I wish I could have seen. 
Then again, I took a portable color set up Whiteface
Mountain (Wilmington, NY) and had several channels
"three to four stations deep" on both VHF and UHF. 
Who needed cable?! ;)!

-Pete


Peter Q. George (K1XRB)
Whitman, Massachusetts
                           "Scanning the bands since 1967"
radiojunkie1@yahoo.com
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