[QuadList] EOT--John Fletcher, Harpers Ferry, WV--March 9, 2013

[Joav Shdema]

I've known Jeff through the Ampex List since 2009. he was an honest, open
and helpful person.
My condolences to the family and others who benefited by his generosity.


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Joav Shdema
Managing Partner
Audio-Video-Film Restoration Expert
DB Digital, archiving concepts
www.dbdigital.co.il
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On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 10:35 PM, Ted Langdell
<ted at quadvideotapegroup.com>wrote:

>
>
> Greetings from California.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
>
> John attended our Quad Videotape Group Brunch in Fredericksburg, VA,
> Saturday, Oct. 9, 2010.
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> The seemingly ever-present Gary Adams is behind the camera for this photo.
>
> 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.
>
>
> Over the course of his time on the QuadList, John provided helpful
> information, offered equipment and manuals (often just for the cost of
> shipping).
>
> John's last post to the QuadList was Jan. 27, 2013.
>
> His last post to the OldVTRs list was March 26, 2013.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
>
> http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/showthread.php?93513-John-Fletcher-Friend-of-the-A-T
>
>
> 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.linkedin.com/pub/john-fletcher/62/492/b45
>
> 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.
>
> We understand his survivors include his parents in Denton, MD and a sister.
>
> Our condolences to them and others on these lists that knew John through
> them,
>
>    Ted
>
> Ted Langdell
> (530) 301-2931
>  ted at quadvideotapegroup.com
>   Secretary for the  *QuadVideotapeGroup.com*<http://www.quadvideotapegroup.com/>
> :
> Preserving Tape, Equipment and the Knowledge to use them, in conjunction
> with the Library of Congress
>
>
>
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