N5NTG | 
05 5th, 2014| 
John was born 9/3/1947 & raised in Beverly Hills California. He had 2 brothers Tom Orton & Jim Orton & a sister Victoria Orton. A daughter Tina Marie Orton, and nieces and nephews.
He went to Beverly Hills High School, then transferred to Belmont High School in Los Angeles where he met at the time & went steady with who would one day be his wife, Karen in 1965. He graduated from Beverly Hills High in 1967 & moved to the Bay area in Northern California, he attended Cabot College. His career as an Aero Space Engineer took him everywhere from the West Coast to Korea.
John had various interests during his lifetime, he loved trains, sail boating, surfing, hiking, motorcycling & riding his mountain bike plus gardening…but what he loved most was Ham Radio. In California he was known on the radio as “WA6BOB”.
See his ham radio website here… http://w5jbo.weebly.com/
In March 2010 John retired from Space Vector in Chatsworth, California and moved to Texas where he met up again with his now wife Karen and they were married in January 2011, after 44 years of loosing track of each other.
John got back into radio again in Texas and acquired a new handle of “W5JBO” he got into contesting, was always asked to help out with testing, he would volunteer to put up other operators antennas & would also volunteer to do radio repairs in our garage. Read the rest of this entry »
