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Plano, Texas Articles of interest to the hobby of Amateur Radioadio. May, 1999
Ham radio operators Bruce AE7XE, Glen KC7YHD, Mark KC7PCH, Jerry KA7UQY, James WA7JN, and Jeff with the 5 ton boom truck. All helped James WA7JN get his Wilson System 40 up in Yakima, WA. on 3 April 1999 research is still in the early development tion can move from location A to location stage. B without moving in the space between A Beaming Is "Right now we are just making and B. Until recently, it was deemed demos of quantum teleportation, which is impossible by scientists who thought it different than the teleportation you see in contradicted the uncertainty principle of Believing Star Trek," said Raymond Laflamme, a quantum mechanics. Lindsey Arent staff scientist at Los Alamos National Now teleportation technologies are 3:00 a.m. 7.May.99.PDT Laboratory. being applied to quantum cryptography, a Practical applications for But within 20 years, Laflamme said communications procedure so secure that teleportation, though not exactly the type teleportation could be a fundamental step any attempt at interception of an en- seen in Star Trek, could be less than a in the creation of quantum computers, crypted code by an eavesdropper would generation away. cryptography, and an emerging technol- Continued on page 7 According to a report released ogy called "superdense coding," in which Thursday by Technical Insights, the first two quantum bits could be transmitted for applications of teleportation will be in the price of one. See rear cover for quantum computers and quantum cryptog- "We're finally at the stage where raphy, not human transport. people can hazard to guess a timeline for time, place and date Physicists can already teleport tiny when these sci-fi types of things can be things, such as a beam of light or the seen in real life," said Alex Tullo, author change for next angular spin of atomic nuclei. But of the Technical Insights report. physicists caution that teleportation The mysterious aspect of quantum P.A.R.K. meeting! teleportation lies in the fact that informa- Page 1 PARKING TICKET received 18 votes, no opposition. Public Center at 972-618-6005. No further P.A.R.K. Relations: Sheldon Fisher N5CAE action was taken. The meeting was received 12 votes, H. Clinton received 1 adjourned at 2022 hours. Meeting Minutes vote. Activities Director: Susie Hegg KB5SSV received 11 votes, no opposi- Jack Ward, KC5KOV April 20, 1999 tion. Secretary The results were given to Martin The regularly scheduled meeting of Reynolds read the results to the Klub. He the Plano Amateur Radio Klub was called then asked for a motion to accept the to order by Martin Reynolds Park results of the election. A motion was President. The meeting was held at the made to accept the results, it was sec- Harrington Library. onded and carried unanimously. HamCom ’99 The chair welcomed everyone to the Bill Drake is the new Park President, meeting and invited all present to join Jim Holman is the new Vice President, West Gulf Division Convention in The Pledge of Allegiance. Bruce Dingman in the new Treasurer, June 11 - 13, 1999, Arlington, Texas Twenty four members logged in and Sheldon Fisher is the new Public Rela- four visitors signed the visitors sheet. tions Director, and Susie Hegg is the new HamCom ’99 will be hosting the Visitors attending the meeting were Activities Director. West Gulf Division Convention at the introduced to the Klub and all were Bill Swan held a general discussion Arlington Convention Center. Arlington is welcomed with a round of applause. on Emergency Communications. The in the heart of the Dallas/Fort Worth Martin Reynolds presented a pro- discussion included training, along with Metroplex. The doors open to the public gram to the Klub on ARES and RACES the value and benefits to the community at 1:00 PM Friday, June 11 with the and the role Amateur Radio operators and radio operators. festivities continuing throughout the play in Emergency Communications. weekend. Weekend features include the Martin Reynolds noted this was Old Business - popular inside and outside Flea Markets; election meeting and asked for all ballots major exhibitors; Skywarn School and Bill Drake noted the May meeting to be turned in for counting. VE Testing. Bill Kennamer (K5FUV) location has not yet been determined. It is Secretary announced the minutes as from the ARRL Membership service possible the meeting will be held at published in the Newsletter. A motion department will be at HamCom to check Carpenter Recreation Center - 6701 Coit, was made to accept the minutes as QSL cards for DXCC. NW corner of Coit and Springcreek. The published, it carried unanimously. HamCom is proud to announce that building is surrounded by the soccer The Treasurer’s report was an- our Keynote Speaker for 1999 is Riley fields. For additional directions call the nounced as published in the Newsletter. A Hollingsworth of the FCC Enforcement motion was made to accept the report, it division (please reference QST Page 70, carried unanimously. May, 1999). Immediately following Mr. The Communications Report was Hollingsworth (K4ZDH) will be Chief give by Bill Fell KK5PB. He noted there Treasurer’s Report Counsel to the ARRL, Chris Imlay has not been much headway on the voter (W3KD) speaking on ”Amateur Radio system. He updated the Klub on the Audit was conducted of the financial and the Law.” Complimenting our speaker progress of the system and search for records of Park and the Repeater line up is Bob Heil (K9EID) of Heil permanent location. He also noted the funds and found to be in perfect order. Sound, Chuck Penson (WA7ZZE), Joe Rockwall Amateur Radio Klub repeater Bottiglieri (AA1GW) Product Review which was for sale as noted at the last April 21, 1999 Editor of QST, Jay Miller (KK5IM), meeting has been sold. No further action Allen Finne (WB5SQK), and Rev. was taken. Expenses 55.49 George Dobbs (G3RJV) along with many Income 171.00 others. New Business - Balance 2312.21 Talk-in net provided by the Arlington Election: The Ballots were counted ARC 147.14 MHz. Admission is $9. Inside Flea Market tables are $25 with by the Secretary and the Treasurer. The Park Repeater results were given to the President to be electrical available for an additional presented to the Klub. The results $40. Outside Flea Market spaces are Expenses 0 are as follows: available for $10 per day or $25 for all Income 77.00 President: Bill Drake KJ5ZVrecieved three days. Contact HamCom Chairman Balance 2656.49 18 votes, no opposition. Vice President: Jim Haynie (W5JBP), at Post Office Jim Holman KC5JGT received 18 votes, Box 780942, Dallas, Texas 75378, Bruce Dingman N5BYL no opposition. Treasurer: Bruce Dingman telephone 214-351 2385 or fax us at Treasurer N5BYL received 18 votes, no opposition. 214-352-1608; [email protected]; Newsletter Editor: Dan Kautz W8EHS http://www.hamcom.org Page 2 Plano Amateur Radio Klub The Texas QSO FCC says no to QST from the expanding special President Party: event call sign Greetings: Sponsored by the Texas DX Society. First let me thank you for the vote of 1400Z May 22 to 0500z May 23, 1999 program: confidence to lead the club for one more and 1400Z May 23, 1999 to 2000Z May year. I am convinced that it will be an 23, 1999. Exchange RST and State ZCZC AG27 exciting time for all of us. (Province, Country, or Maritime region). QST de W1AW Let me thank Bruce Dingman, Shell Texas stations use RST and County. ARRL Bulletin 27 ARLB027 Fisher, Susie Hegg, and Jim Holman for Stations may be worked once per band/ >From ARRL Headquarters giving of their time to enhance the mode. Newington CT April 27, 1999 leadership of our club. We join Jack Texas mobiles may be worked once To all radio amateurs Ward and Bill Fell as they continue their per band/mode from each county. terms in office. I look forward to working Categories for Novice/Tech, single and The FCC has denied the ARRL’s with each and every one of them and you. multi op, multi single and multi multi, petition that sought to expand the Now it is time for me to ask a little of Texas mobile single, multi op, QRP single Amateur Radio special event call sign you. There are a few positions, which we and multi xmtr, and a Club Aggregate program. The League had asked the FCC need to fill in order to enhance the club. category. Score Two points per phone to amend its rules to permit the use of You may play a big part in that. During QSO and three points per CW and other special event call sign formats that go the next meeting on May 20th we will be digital mode QSO. beyond the currently authorized one-by- looking for help during the meetings. Multipliers: one(1x1) format. The petition also had Many of you will be at the meetings Non -Texas stations use number of asked the Commission to include call anyway, so lend a hand. Texas counties worked - a total of 254. signs denoting US territories and posses- The June meeting will be exciting. Texas stations use number of Texas sions having no mailing address within The Plano Fire Department will again be counties, states, Canadian Provinces, and the special event program. presenting the Wiffle Tree fire. It will be DX countries (less USA, Canada, Hawaii In an April 21 letter to League, at the Plano FireHouse #1 on Ave. and Alaska). D’Wana Terry, chief of the Public Safety Spread the word, we will want a good Add bonus points to your final and Private Wireless Division within the turnout. score: Wireless Telecommunications Bureau The May meeting we will be seeking Non - Texas stations add one hundred said the FCC was ‘’not persuaded that the input as to Field Day. Suggestion from points for EVERY ten Texas mobiles requested changes to the system are the membership would be greatly appreci- worked per band/mode. Texas stations warranted at this time.’’ The League’s ated for the planing of this year’s event. add one hundred points for EVERY ten petition was submitted May 18, 1998, but Looking forward to seeing you all at Texas mobiles worked per band/mode. it was never assign a rulemaking number the Plano Recreation Center at 8:00 PM Texas mobiles add five thousand points or put out for public comment. May the 20th. per every five counties covered with at ARRL Executive Vice President least five contacts per county and add David Sumner, K1ZZ, called Terry’s Bill KJ5ZV/AAR6CE one hundred points for EVERY ten Texas decision ’’somewhat disappointing.’’ mobiles worked per band/mode. The special event call sign program Suggested frequencies: is administered by several private sector CW - 30 kHz up. Phone - 25 kHz coordinators, including the ARRL. Those The Texas Amateur up in General class segments. VHF - wanting a special event call sign for a Radio Tower Bill: 50.200 144.200 limited period are able to reserve one via Send logs (and dupe sheets if over the Internet. Under current rules, 750 4/29/99 200 QSOs) by June 30, 1999 to TDXS, combinations of 1x1 format call signs are The Texas Amateur Radio Tower bill POB 540291, Houston, TX 77254 or available for limited periods. Stations is on its way to the Governor’s Email to [email protected]. operating with special event call signs desk...... For a complete set of rules see TDXS still must identify with the station’s The House and Senate did the final website http://n5uh.tech.uh.edu:80/~tdxs/ regularly assigned call sign at one-hour signing off of the bill today. The bill or Email and/or SASE to W5HNS. TQP intervals. now officially goes to the Governor. The is supported by NA and TR contest In its petition, the League said there Governor has 10 days to either sign the software. has been significant demand for special bill, veto the bill, or let the bill become http://wb5fnd.tech.uh.edu/~tdxs/ event call signs outside of the 1x1 format law without his signature. Texas DX Society 1/99 and for DXpeditions to locations under I’m hoping for the signing!!!!!! 73 -- Karl N0WWK Continued on page 4
Page 3 PARKING TICKET Continued from page 3 to include a reference to the "beat" theme. Swatch Beats But Amateur Radio operators around US jurisdiction that lack US Postal Awkward Retreat: the world, citing international regulations, Service addresses. The League also said protested the plans because of their that there has been ‘’a great deal of Sputnik Won't Fly commercial connection. Rob Carlson, interest’’ in additional special event call KC2AEI, opened a "Swatch Protest and sign formats that would let the call sign BIEL, SWITZERLAND, Apr 16, Boycott " site on the Internet to collect symbolize a particular event or type of 1999--Swatch Watch says the "Beatnik" opinions and as a clearing house for event. satellite will not be sent into space today information on the topic. Terry said the FCC has not received from the Russian Mir space station as Swatch pinned the blame for cancel- any indication from the Amateur Radio planned. Instead, the Swiss watchmaker lation of its Beatnik satellite--actually the community that demand for special event will trade space for cyberspace to third in a series of mini-Sputnik transmit- call signs exceeded the number available. broadcast its messages. only spacecraft--on the recent failure of She also said the need to create additional At the same time, both the Associ- the Luch 1/Gelios satellite the Mir crew formats was outweighed by the complex- ated Press and Reuters are reporting that a uses for communication with Earth. ity of creating them. satellite was launched by hand from Mir "Swatch has decided to assist the Space- Terry advised more experience with during a space walk by ESA astronaut flight Control Centre and donate the the current system before deciding to Jean-Pierre Haignere, FX0STB, and batteries supporting the Beatnik satellite change it, and she urged the League to Russian cosmonaut Viktor Afanasyev. If to the Mir cosmonauts, thus cancelling continue to monitor demand for special the reports are accurate, it's not clear the possibility of any radio transmission event call signs. Sumner said he was whether the satellite launched was the from space," Swatch said in a brief encouraged that the FCC, while denying planned "Beatnik" spacecraft or a spare statement on its Web site. the petition, had invited the League to mini-Sputnik that's been aboard Mir since Swatch said "a virtual Beatnik" will revisit the issue later. NNNN/EX 1997. Reuters said the satellite was one carry the messages in cyberspace and "built by French amateur radio enthusi- invited "Beat" fans to "stay tuned and join asts." The report quotes Russian space the first cybermission!" center spokeswoman Vera Medvedkova Full-page Swatch ads in today's New as saying, "It is finished. They launched York Times and Los Angeles Times to the satellite." announce the change in plans declare AP said the satellite put into space "Thank you, Swatch" in Russian and was one "made by Russian and French English and expand on the battery swap Don’t Try This One schoolchildren" that contained "a record- explanation. According to the Times ads, ing of their voices." The spare mini- cosmonauts will use the batteries to run At Home! Sputnik aboard Mir--a duplicate of the an onboard printer "which is the lifeline one launched in 1997 to mark the 40th to earth through which the Cosmonauts anniversary of the original Sputnik--is receive their daily instructions and key Amateur Radio-carrying rocket operations points." launch set: believe to contain only a 2-meter beacon transmitter. On April 12, it was reported that The third annual Delaware Luch-1/Gelios, the only geostationary Rockets For Schools program will launch As of around 1800 UTC on April 16, there had been no monitoring reports. satellite available for Mir communica- a suborbital rocket Saturday, May 8, 1900 tions, had suffered a technical failure. A UTC (3 PM local) at Cape Henlopen Swatch announced early today on its Web site that the controversial messages replacement is not scheduled to be State Park, Delaware. The rocket will launched until much later this year, carry three payloads designed and the satellite was to have transmitted on the 2-meter amateur band instead will be according to MirNews publisher Chris constructed by computer/electronics van den Berg. Just how the technology students at Delaware Tech- read by a Russian cosmonaut aboard Mir during an April 22 videoconference. The nonrechargeable batteries now in the Terry Campus. The Super Loki payload mini-Sputnik aboard Mir would remedy consists of a GPS/MIM sending a GGA company plans to broadcast the video conference via its Internet site. the Luch-1/Gelios satellite failure was sentence to a 0.5 W transmitter on 145.79 unclear from the Swatch posting. MHz ((5 kHz). Telemetry data will be The controversial messages, gathered via the Swatch Web site, related to the The ARRL weighed into the Beatnik sent as well. The Loki is expected to satellite controversy April 7 by suggest- reach at least 50 km. It will be launched Swatch company's campaign to establish the "Swatch Beat" as a new "global ing to Swatch Group CEO Nicolas E. in an easterly direction over Delaware Hayek that the Swiss firm cancel the Bay. Descent time is 30-50 minutes. For concept of time." Via its Web site, Swatch had solicited more than 5000 messages-- launch and use a commercial satellite for more information, visit the Delaware its project instead. "The Amateur Radio Rockets For Schools Payload page, http:// including voice and text files--for possible transmission on the new satellite. community must stand against the www.dtel.terry.dtcc.edu/~rocket 'Beatnik' satellite because it represents Sam Guccione, K3BY Messages selected for use were supposed
Page 4 Plano Amateur Radio Klub such an undesirable precedent," Sumner said. Sumner pointed out that international UoSAT-12 Launched and Functioning regulations define the amateur service as BAIKONUR, KAZAKHSTAN one engaged in by "duly authorized persons Apr 22, 1999 interested in radio technique solely with a The latest Amateur Radio satellite, personal aim and without pecuniary UoSAT-12, was successfully launched interest." Although Swatch asserted the April 21 just before 0500 UTC from messages were not advertising, Sumner the Baikonur Cosmodrome aboard a pointed out to Hayek that the commercial converted Soviet SS-18 ICBM. This nature of the arrangements to transmit the marked the first time a Russian missile messages on amateur frequencies was designed for war had been converted contrary to international law. "I think this to peaceful purposes to carry a was a new thought to him, frankly, because commercial satellite into space. Under this is not the way they had been viewing the terms of the START arms reduction it," Sumner said. Hayek had indicated April treaty, the former Soviet Union's entire 9 that he would mull the issues Sumner had arsenal of SS-18 Satans must be raised. destroyed or used for peaceful pur- The controversy over the use of poses. Amateur Radio frequencies to transmit the Audio from the launch site was messages had grown to international not good during the launch, but word proportions in recent days, and the story was received of the various stage was picked up by media ranging from separations and the separation of Wired News and MSNBC to The Sunday UoSAT-12 after 877 seconds. Times of London. Keplerian elements soon will be available for those that wish to track the new It's not yet known what will become of satellite. the mini-Sputnik itself. AMSAT-France, The satellite was successfully switched on at around 1800 UTC and copied on the had contracted with AMSAT-Russia to 2230 UTC pass in Japan by Kazu Sakamoto, JJ1WTK. The downlink is 9600 baud build the electronics for the mini-Sputnik. FSK and can be copied on 437.400MHz After learning of the Swatch contract, The satellite is considerably larger than UO-22 or TO-31, and carries a propulsion AMSAT-F since distanced itself from the system for orbital housekeeping experiments. UoSAT-12 carries a number of imaging project and apologized for its involvement. payloads (with an up to 10-meter image resolution) along with digital store-and-forward AMSAT-Russia President Eugene Labutin, communications on VHF and UHF. Mode L/S transponders will also be supported with RA3APR, also apologized, saying the a high-speed digital downlink. arrangements with Swatch were made As it attempts to increase its share of the profitable commercial satellite launch without AMSAT-Russia's knowledge. market, Russia reportedly also is converting its SS-19 Stiletto ballistic missiles into The new Sputnik-99 satellite arrived on booster rockets. --Bruce Paige, KK5DO Mir aboard a Progress rocket April 4 and was set for launch April 16 during a space [Thanks to the University of Surrey and Chris Jackson, G7UPN, who supplied walk. information for this report.]
as “nearly extinct” and suggests that it’s But he predicted that Morse code NPR Essays Recall down for the count, even among hams. really is on its way out. “Radio amateurs “Some of my earliest memories are will continue to use it, but increasingly “Nearly Extinct” of my father sitting in front of his ham even they will start thinking of the code radio set, the beeps of Morse code as an antique—the electronic equivalent Morse Code coming from his black Bakelite head- of a flintlock rifle,” he asserted. “We WASHINGTON, DC, Apr 27, phones, his hand on the telegraph key,” should all wish it 73.” 1999—In a radio essay that aired April 23 recalls Kern, who’s WB2WIX, in his Kern says he’s not down on the code, on NPR’s All Things Considered, Senior commentary. “By the age of three or four, however. He told the ARRL that because Editor Jonathan Kern includes warm I could spell my name in code, though I the segment in which his commentary recollections of hearing—and learning— didn’t even know the letters of the aired ran too long, it had to be cut on the CW as a youngster in the ham shack of alphabet.” day of broadcast. “I think the un-cut his father, Eugene, W2BAK. “The He goes on to describe the CW version better reflects my feelings about commentary was really designed to give abbreviations hams commonly use (wx, the code,” he said. people an appreciation of the medium,” QRM, 73, etc) as a “sort of digital In a part that was deleted from the he said this week. Kern’s essay, aired as Esperanto” that overcomes language essay that aired (see sidebar “The part of the network’s series, “Lost and barriers. Found Sounds,” also refers to Morse code Continued on page 6 Page 5 PARKING TICKET Continued from page 5 balloon. The rocket will then be launched Fins (4): Laminated aircraft plywood and to an altitude of approximately 60 miles, Kevlar Unexpurgated Jonathan Kern on Morse providing telemetry and GPS positioning, (like in bullet proof vests) Code”), Kern discussed how the Morse with full recovery expected upon return. Max. Velocity: Mach 3.7 code formed a bond between him and his This system has its roots in the very Rocket Motor: father. successful Rockoon, BATO and Farside Length: 26 inches “We’d spend evenings down in the balloon/rocket programs carried out in Weight: 9.75 pounds basement, building radios from scratch,” New Mexico and the Arctic. Burn Time: 5 seconds he’d written. “We’d be in the work room, The rocket for this mission has been Launch Platform: hovering over schematic diagrams, christened the “Spirit Of Freedom 7” in Length: 96 inches searching for the right vacuum tubes, honor of the first American in space, Alan Width: 10 inches winding coils by hand. The only transmit- B. Shepard Jr., and the rocket that carried Material: Foam board ter I ever built by myself could only send him there. Weight: 25 pounds Morse code.” JP Aerospace is an innovative, Systems: Live Video Downlink Kern says he once visited ARRL HQ amateur aerospace organization dedicated GPS Tracking back in the early 60s. “And somewhere I to providing cheap access to space using Three flight computers still have my ARRL certificate showing existing technologies and off-the-shelf Full two way telemetry/control my ability to receive code at 25 wpm,” he materials. Based in Davis, California, the Radio Beacon added. He said that while he’s still 20 year-old organization consists of Parachute licensed, he’s been inactive recently. “I members who represent a wide variety of JP Aerospace is an amateur group have half of a trap dipole in my back backgrounds, from former aerospace and nearly all of it’s members are Ham yard—the squirrels got the other half!” he engineers and a physicist to computer radio operators. Amateur radio equipment said. programmers. Further information is is used extensively in the vehicle to In a second essay that accompanied available on the world wide web at http:// ground communication. Kern’s, Gregory Whitehead reminisces jpaerospace.com. Balloons: about his grandfather, Alexander Shan- Fact Sheet 10 research weather balloons, nine non, a professional telegrapher who Mission: Dubbed “America’s pounds of lift each. Length from bottom tapped out the play-by-play of Boston OTHER Space Program”, JP Aerospace of the launch platform to the top of Red Sox games from Fenway Park for use wants to be the first amateur organization the balloon stack: 610 feet by radio stations and wire services. to place a payload into space. Flight Profile: To hear both pieces, visit http:// Current Project: Project Space Flight: The rocket in carried inside the launch www.npr.org/programs/atc/archives/1999/ To launch a rocket with a scientific platform. The launch platform is lifted by 990423.atc.html. payload to an altitude of 50 miles. This ten helium filled weather balloons to will be accomplished by lofting a launch 100,000 feet. The climb to 100,000 feet system to an altitude of 100,000 feet by takes approximately 90 minutes. The balloon, where the rocket will be systems are monitored by a mission launched to an altitude of approximately control team on the ground and the First Amateur Flight 60 miles. command to launch the rocket is sent. The Date of launch: May 22/23, 1999 motor burns for five seconds accelerating to Space Scheduled Alternate Date: June 12/13, 1999 the rocket to Mach 3.7. The rocket then Website: www.jpaerospace.com coasts to an altitude of 60 miles (320,000 The Historic Flight Will Use Contact: John Powell feet). Space officially begins at 57.5 Amateur Radio Technology President miles. A parachute deploys and the rocket decends to Earth. Almost all members of the JP Aerospace 2636 Temple Drive sponosring group are licensed Davis, CA 95616 Reprinted with permission from Ham ham radio operators Tel: (530) 757-1808 Radio Online magazine, available for free A history-making space flight is Fax: (530) 757-1808 on the Internet at http://www.hamradio- scheduled for launch on Saturday, May Email: [email protected] online.com 22, 1999 from the Black Rock desert in Vehicle Specifications Northwestern Nevada. JP Aerospace, an Rocket: amateur aerospace organization located in Length: 88 inches Sacramento, California will attempt to Diameter: 3 inches make aerospace history by launching the Weight: 17 lbs first amateur rocket into space. This will Material: be accomplished by lofting a launch Nose cone: Carbon Fiber system to an altitude of 100,000 feet by Airframe: Phenolic (Paper and epoxy)
Page 6 Plano Amateur Radio Klub Continued from page 1 technique. Who has more experience with QSL cards. Got an interesting QSL “beams” anyway? that you would like to share with others. result in a message's immediate destruc- The meeting place has changed for Either your own or one you have re- tion. the next meeting. I have placed enough ceived. I will scan and publish in the Such impenetrable communications information in this issue to warn you all. I Parking Ticket for all to enjoy. I will systems could have vast implications for also worked hard at getting this issue out probably have to reduce the size a little. the future of national security and to you early enough to spread the word. The color cards will be visible in all their international intelligence, Laflamme said. There is actually one more page (two glory in the PDF file on the club website. "With quantum cryptography, we can be sides) that can be added to this publica- sure that encrypted information is 100 tion before going over the postal weight That’s it for this month. 73, Dan percent secure." limit. It has been suggested that I restart There already is a prototype of a the “for sale” column in the Parking quantum computer at Los Alamos. It's Ticket. All you have to do is email me capable of sending information up to a your information at the address in the distance of 48 kilometers "It's amazing," header of this column. I think it is said Laflamme. "Only five years ago reasonable to limit items to ham radio people thought this was a crazy idea. Now material and to club members only. Keep we're bringing down information onto the layout of your “ad” simple, as I will single atoms and manipulating it." edit it anyway for space considerations. I It's good news for cryptography and am not sure how to control the length of secure computing. But, unfortunately for run. Just email me if you sell something. I Star Trek fans, few scientists see a future may just drop stuff that hasn’t moved for in beam-style transport. awhile. So there are basically no rules "If you want to be teleported to New unless it starts to get out of hand. Give it a York for dinner," said Laflamme, "you try. shouldn’t expect that to happen." More photos needed. I like to look at pictures rather than read a lot of text. If Thought I had found a new method of you have any interesting pics of Klub amateur communication through related activities, I would like to run “beams” Sorry
Page 7 The PARKING TICKET is the monthly publication of PARKINGBOARD OF DIRECTORS TICKET Office Name Home Work the Plano Amateur Radio Klub (PARK) and is intended to President Bill Drake, KJ5ZV 972-964-5516 972-497-5255 present news, issues and opinions of interest to the PARK and Vice President Jim Holman, KC5JGT 972-424-4282 Secretary Jack Ward, KC5KOV 972-527-8344 972-497-6098 the Amateur Radio Community. We encourage contribution of Treasurer Bruce Dingman, N5BYL 972-442-4542 972-995-5774 Activities Director Susie Hegg, KB5SSV 972-516-0989 214-855-0449 articles, letters to the editor, etc. and welcome newsletter Communications Bill Fell, KK5PB 972-424-0496 972-705-3611 exchanges with other clubs around the country. Permission is Editor Daniel Kautz, W8EHS 972-712-7741 972-323-4814 Public Relations Sheldon Fisher, N5CAE 972-423-7543 972-422-2218 granted to reprint material as long as proper credit is given. 2M Trustee Fred Varian, WD5ERD 972-398-0407 214-464-6084 220 Trustee Steve Jones, WB5SGN 972-241-6311 214-265-3243 Ideas for and contributions to the PARKING TICKET 440 Trustee Tom Gentry, K5VOU 972-442-3502 972-423-3421 should be sent to: Former President Martin Reynolds, N6LIF 972-727-6746 Tech. Comm. Chr. Charlie Stone, KG5XX 972-517-1575 972-684-5364
TV/RFI Committee Don R. Hice, WB5TVI 972-599-2038 Editor - Dan Kautz, W8EHS PARKING TICKET LONG-RANGE PLANNING COMMITTEE Chairman Jim Holman, KC5JGT 972-424-4282 P.O. Box 860435 John Creel, N5OON 972-517-7551 972-484-3620 Plano, TX. 75086-0435 Bruce Dingman, N5BYL 972-442-4542 972-995-5774 Tom Gentry, K5VOU 972-442-3502 972-423-3421 Patsy Jones, WA5MYD 972-423-0202 Jim Popelarski, W5WN 972-618-5096 972-308-1419 Submissions must be received no later than the first day Bill Swan, K5MWC 972-596-9307 972-705-3441 of the month to be included in that month’s issue. Material Deb Varian, KA5HQY 972-867-4048 Craig Young, KA5BOU 972-396-9184 972-952-4616 received after the deadline will be included in the following month’s issue if it is still current. The Plano Amateur Radio Klub meets the 3rd Tuesday of each month at 7:30 PM in the Harrington Library, 18th and Avenue P. Dues are $15 per year, $21 for family membership, and $7 for the Repeater Association, prorated biannually. The PARK operates three repeaters: WD5ERD on 147.18+, WB5SGN on 224.22- and K5VOU on 444.25+. Look for PARK on the Internet at: http://www.holman.net/park/.
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