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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 10:35 PM, Ted Langdell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ted@quadvideotapegroup.com" target="_blank">ted@quadvideotapegroup.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

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<br><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><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 height="291" width="216"></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"></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 face="Calibri, sans-serif" size="4"><span style="font-size:15px"><img height="241" width="640"></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 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" target="_blank">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" target="_blank">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" target="_blank">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>
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