MONDAY, MARCH 6, 1950
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE SEVEN
KU Calling Tibet-Come In, Tibet
Bv JOHN A. BANNIGAN
From K.U. to the roof of the world, is but the flip of a switch and the twist of a dial.
That statement is true, providing you have a short-wave radio transmitter, such as the one used by the K.U. amateur radio club. You also must have perseverance enough to stay up half the night twisting and turning knobs trying to make contact with the lone radio operator in Tibet. James S. Heaton, engineering junior and vice-president of the K.U. amateur radio club, has several friends who have contacted an Englishman, who maintains the only immediate communication with Tibet.
The two short-wave transmitters that the K.U. amateur radio club owns are powerful enough to reach Tibet, conditions permitting. However, up to the present, no one from here has succeeded in getting a response from that lonely outpost.
More than 25 students are members of the club and at least three faculty members are "ham" operators. Melvin C. Cottom, instructor
We adviser of the group, and he is also an amateur radio operator. Although formal meetings of the club are held only twice a month, all members have keys to the radio "shack" on the top floor of Marvin hall and may use the transmitter whenever they wish.
The K.U. station operates at 250 watts power and is designated by the call letters WOAHW. Robert G. Thrutchley, electrical engineering senior, is president of the amateur radio club.
One transmitter operates on all bands, or wave lengths and is equipped for radio-telephone messages. This set was built and paid for by members of the club. The other transmitter only covers three amateur wave lengths and handles radio-telegraphy or continuous wave (CW) transmission. This rig was bought as surplus war material and rebuilt for the club's purposes.
There was an amateur radio club here until 1941, but it was inactivated during the war. The present group was reorganized and has been operating since 1947. Most of the members have their own sets at time, but they join the club to meet other "hams" and learn what they can about improving their rigs or equipment.
Talking halfway around the world is not unusual to most "ham". All an outsider has to do is to ask a "ham" what countries he has made contact with and immediately several hundred postal cards will be displayed. These cards, coming from all over the world, are called QSL cards in the code language of amateur radio. They are acknowledgements of short-wave contact by other "hams." If an amateur radio operator can collect a card from 100 different countries, he becomes eligible for membership in the rather exclusive "DX Country Club." This is a highly regarded status in "ham" ciders.
The amateur radio station has a large number of these acknowledgements. Many come from New Zealand, Australia, and several European countries. There are also QSL cards from every state in the union.
Amateur radio is a popular and growing hobby. In 1948 there were more than 76,000 "hams" in the U.S. and that number is steadily increasing. In order to pass the Federal communications commission examination for an amateur operator's license, an applicant must be able to send and receive 13 words of code a minute, and pass the test on regulations and technical aspects of amateur radio. There is no fee and the license is good for five years.
Biology Students Visit Greenhouse
Laboratory sections of Biology 1 classes made their regular semester botanical tours through the three sections of the University greenhouse recently
One section, of the greenhouse supplies much of the campus shrubbery and a few flowers for special University events. Another section provides chemical vegetation, including a banna tree which has no fruit on it now.
The third section is the botanical students' working area, in which go-pound tomatoes have been grown.
As well as being a satisfying hobby, amateur radio serves as an emergency communication service in disasters, or other emergencies. The American Radio Relay League, an amateur radio operators organization with more than 60,000 members across the nation, has set up emergency phone and code networks in every state. The K.U. station is part
of both the Kansas Emergency Phone network and the CW network.
Last year during the heavy ice storms in southwestern Kansas, several towns were completely isolated from the outside world. "Ham" operators in these towns had the only channels of communication and they kept the news moving. When the ice put telephone and telegraph wires out of service, the railroads used the "ham" operators and their sets to keep traffic moving. There is no doubt in these areas about the usefulness of amateur radio.
At the coming Engineering Exposition, the amateur club plan clubs to have a set-up which will illustrate the versatility of their equipment. Three of the members have transmitters in their cars, and they will exchange messages from various parts of the surrounding country with a central station in Marvin hall. It will be similar to the shortwave police hook-ups.
The K.U. Amateur Radio club station, WOAHW, on the air. Left to right are: Robert E. England at the code machine; James S. Heaton, vice-president; Robert G. Thrutchley, president of the club; and James E. Elliot.
The Nickel Loses Popularity Mint May Make New Coins
Cash register, change makers,
vending machines, and millions of
dollars worth of calculating man-
power due to be materially altered or scrapped.
However, treasury department officials take a dim view of the ideas, particularly in regard to the fractional currency. The fractional coins, they maintain, would cause more headaches than its worth.
Washington—(U.P.)—Suffering from the effects of postpiration, the 5-cent piece no longer pays for a subway ride in New York, a bus ride in Washington, or a cup of coffee in many restaurants.
As for the declining use of coins, one treasury worker said it is hard to get a grip on them. The American public. When New York City subway fares were increased
Congress has been asked this year to approve at least five new coins: 3-cent, $6\frac{1}{4}$ cent, 7 cent, $7\frac{1}{2}$ cent and $12\frac{1}{2}$ cent pieces.
The nickel, however, is not the only coin that isn't being used as much as in previous years. Government figures show that all coins are declining in use and "folding money" is gaining.
The United States mint delivered only 149,064,000 nickels to banks in the peak was 223,870,000 in 1945 and the number has been dropping since.
Coe's Drug
supply of 10-cent pieces in the New "But what happened?" he asked. "The demand of nickels in New York started going up and has been going up ever since. We're still trying to figure that one out."
from a nickel to a dime, he said, the treasury was all set to increase the York area.
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Resourceful Worker Makes Wooden Leg
St. Louis - (U.P.) - Max Landenburg broke an ankle when he fell out of a pear tree. Doctors told him he would be in bed for weeks.
Landenburger said he was too active for that. He went into his basement workshop and soon turned out an artificial leg.
He gets around at his work now as the foreman in the dies department of a large factory.
Doctors examined the arrangement, and they took an anklet, and prepared it all right.
"I just made it from odds and ends. I think I spent 25 cents for new materials," said Landenburger.
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TAMING of the SHREW
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Music Arranged by LEHMAN ENGEL
Tues., March 21
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