Mike Terry wrote:

The Voice of time signal station WWV has passed away. Marty Edwards, a
newscaster who doubled as the voice of WWV, died on Friday, December 10th.
Edwards did the speech transcripts for the time checks provided by the U.S.
Navy Bureau of Standards and broadcast on WWV from Ft. Collins, Colorado.

(Published news reports via ARNewsline December 31 via John Norfolk, dxldyg)



The job obviously killed him. Twenty four hours a day for decades..A
lesser man would have snapped. I wonder what kind of coffee kept him
going.

A monument to his vocal chords and determination should be erected NOW.

He must have done his newscasting *in between* the minute
announcements, cleverly disguising his breaks every sixty seconds as
'breathing intervals'.

There are rumours his identical twin has already taken over, without
missing a beat.



mike