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About Radio Bob

Bob Sauter is NCPR's longtime station engineer. The rest is best said in pictures:

The ages of Bob (Puppy)

Young Bob sometime
near the beginning!

Subyluke Lunkaby & the Jobolias Quumquats at St. Ann's C.Y.O. Dance, 1967.

Enthralled crowd digging cool sounds of Suby & the
J.Q.'s.

Chief Radio Operator Radio Bob, bonding with Second Deck Officer Guido Martini aboard the cruise ship Mardi Gras in 1980.

Bob: (The long slow slide)

Scary transitional Bob after the beard leaped from his face during midlife crisis.

The Bob that remains.

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