<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Greetings from California.</div><div><br></div><div>We are sorry to learn from his father this morning that VTR/ATR collector-restorer John Fletcher, passed away in his sleep on March 9, 2012. He was 38. </div><div><br></div><div>John Fletcher, Harpers Ferry, WV N3NFO, joined the QuadList on May 23, 2010, and had been a member of the Old VTRs group on Yahoo since Feb. 4, 2009.</div><div><br></div><div><img id="155a67f7-2f85-46c7-88d0-1b9bd903ae67" height="291" width="216" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:0C354C2D-F342-4ABB-A80D-0BEB18368174"></div><div><br></div><div>John attended our Quad Videotape Group Brunch in Fredericksburg, VA, Saturday, Oct. 9, 2010. </div><div><div><div><img height="450" width="600" id="f928175f-a05e-4d88-be03-b80a5f272481" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:3D1FA28F-E0B4-43B3-AA5B-41AFAB061157@colubris.lan"></div><div>John is in the center of this picture. He drove two hours to attend the brunch, and brought a manual for the Ampex VR-1000 to share.</div><div><div><br></div><div>L-R, there's that salesman Ted Langdell pitching VR-2000's again, John Fletcher, and TV Technology Technology Editor James O'Neal, who had been restoring AVR-2's at the library of Congress.</div><div><br></div><div>The seemingly ever-present Gary Adams is behind the camera for this photo.</div></div></div></div><div><br></div><div>John drove over with a Chevy Blazer full of 1" IVC format videotapes, which he obtained along with these IVC machines several weeks prior to our Brunch.<br><br><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri, sans-serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; "><img height="241" width="640" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" id="094e6693-1b6e-4c65-8875-82e656c48e1f" src="cid:B06FA328-8522-41BA-B7A7-9CE731A92FC9@colubris.lan"></span></font></div></div></div><div><br></div><div>Over the course of his time on the QuadList, John provided helpful information, offered equipment and manuals (often just for the cost of shipping).</div><div><br></div><div>John's last post to the QuadList was Jan. 27, 2013.</div><div><div><br></div><div>His last post to the OldVTRs list was March 26, 2013.</div></div><div><br></div><div>While we know of John's interest in collecting and restoring old audio and video tape equipment and his training as an electronic engineer (BS-EET), his ongoing passion was The Appalachian Trail.</div><div><br></div><div>John volunteered for and was then hired by the Appalachian Trail Conservancy, (ATC.) He helped GPS map parts of it, and maintained a section near his home.</div><div><br></div><div>John combined his interests by transferring historic videotapes for the ATC, making them accessible to the organization and others interested in the trail's history.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div><a href="http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/showthread.php?93513-John-Fletcher-Friend-of-the-A-T">http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/showthread.php?93513-John-Fletcher-Friend-of-the-A-T</a></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.appalachiantrail.org/get-involved/volunteer/volunteer-in-memoriam/2013/03/13/john-fletcher---appalachian-trail-conservancy-and-potomac-appalachian-trail-club">http://www.appalachiantrail.org/get-involved/volunteer/volunteer-in-memoriam/2013/03/13/john-fletcher---appalachian-trail-conservancy-and-potomac-appalachian-trail-club</a></div><div><br></div><div><div><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/john-fletcher/62/492/b45">http://www.linkedin.com/pub/john-fletcher/62/492/b45</a></div></div><div><br></div></blockquote><div>His AT passion began when his father, Bob, took a backpacking trip on the trail when he was 13. Both of them continued to hike the trail, and make repairs.</div><div><br></div><div>We understand his survivors include his parents in Denton, MD and a sister.</div><div><br></div><div>Our condolences to them and others on these lists that knew John through them,</div><div><br></div><div>
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