{"id":7235,"date":"2014-05-05T19:10:34","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T00:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/?p=7235"},"modified":"2014-05-05T19:10:34","modified_gmt":"2014-05-06T00:10:34","slug":"john-orton-w5jbo-sk-april-9-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/?p=7235","title":{"rendered":"John Orton W5JBO SK – April 9, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"W5JBO_John_Orton_SK\"John was born 9\/3\/1947 & raised in Beverly Hills California. He had 2 brothers Tom Orton & Jim Orton & a sister Victoria Orton.\u00a0 A daughter Tina Marie Orton, and nieces and nephews.<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0 His career as an Aero Space Engineer took him everywhere from the West Coast to Korea.<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0 In California he was known on the radio as “WA6BOB”.<\/p>\n

See his ham radio website\u00a0 here… http:\/\/w5jbo.weebly.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

John got back into radio again in Texas and acquired a new handle of\u00a0 “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.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

John volunteered to help wounded warriors who wanted to get out on the shooting range & enjoy shooting a gun.\u00a0 He was an avid gun collector and enjoyed shooting his guns and showing them.<\/p>\n

Last July of 2013 John was diagnosed with “ALS” Lou Gehrig’s Disease and as the months went by he never let it get him down,\u00a0 he still tried to stay as active as possible & a lot of his fellow Ham Radio buddies were unaware of him fighting this fight.<\/p>\n

On April 9th John passed away in his home with his wife Karen present. He is survived by his brothers & sister, his daughter Tina & his stepdaughter Meghan.<\/p>\n

Funeral Services are May 6th at St. Jerome’s Catholic Church at 6:30pm in China Grove, Texas. The family is asking in lieu of flowers, to make a donation to the ALS Chapter of San Antonio in John’s memory.<\/p>\n

CLUBS – <\/span>Current Membership:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

American Radio Relay League \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Life Member
\nSouth Texas DX & Contest Club\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 STXDXCC
\nCW Operators Club\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 1115<\/span> Life Member
\nNorthern California Contest Club\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Charter Member
\nQuarter Century Wireless Association\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 30525<\/span>
\nDX Century Club\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 DXCC<\/span>\u00a0 CW-RTTY-MIXED
\nSociety of Wireless Pioneers\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 5655-TA
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\nTAPR\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 5830
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\nCroatian CW Club\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 352<\/span><\/p>\n

Past Memberships:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Northern California Contest Club
\nSouthern California Contest Club
\nSouthern California DX Club
\nSouth Western Arizona Contest Club
\nSan Fernando Valley Amateur Radio Club<\/span>
\nChatsworth Radio Club<\/span>
\nRabbit Radio<\/span>
\nCactus Radio<\/span>
\nLivermore Amateur Radio Klub
\nPalisades Amateur Radio Club<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John was born 9\/3\/1947 & raised in Beverly Hills California. He had 2 brothers Tom Orton & Jim Orton & a sister Victoria Orton.\u00a0 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,147],"tags":[771,772],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7235"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7237,"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7235\/revisions\/7237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}