User:Ikluft

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Ian Kluft

This user is a certified flight instructor & commercial pilot.

This user is a software engineer.

This user contributes using Linux.

C-4

This user is an expert C user.

Perl

This user is a Perl hacker.

This user is a licensed amateur radio operator, with the rating of Extra.

This user is interested in maps and mapmaking.

This user enjoys photography.

This user is from Silicon Valley.

This is the user page of Ian Kluft

My personal web page is at http://ian.kluft.com/

These are organizations which I am currently involved in.

South Bay Community Network
Stratofox Aerospace Tracking Team
Silicon Valley Wireless Users & eXperimenters (SVWUX)
the annual Linux Picnic (kernel release anniversary celebration)
Association of Experimental Rocketry of the Pacific (AeroPAC)
the City of San Jose's Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Services (SJ RACES)

I also maintain the free Amateur Radio online exam practice web site at radioexam.org

I maintain a web site about Nevada's Black Rock Desert.

I'm a Perl programmer. My CPAN ID is ikluft, just like on Wikipedia.

I first got started editing at Wikipedia sort of by accident. SEWilco started a Wikinews story about a web page that I posted in Feb 2007. His news article was started on Mar 8 and published Mar 9, "Rocketeers find possible impact crater in Nevada". His approach was to start the article and then tell our discussion mail list about it and invite updates. To me, that was something out of the this-never-happens department, being invited to look over and edit a news story before it goes out. So I participated in the story as invited. It was a thinly-veiled but apparently effective attempt to recruit more Wikipedia volunteers. :-) So I'm still here. I'm looking around at opportunities where I can help. (See the kate edit counter or interiot edit counter.)

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v • d • e Black Rock Desert Region

Geography	Gerlach and Empire · Black Rock Range · Calico Mountains · Granite Range · Fox Range · Jackson Mountains · Kamma Mountains · Santa Rosa Range · Selenite Range · Smoke Creek Desert · Quinn River · Kings River · Lake Lahontan

History/Records	Peter Lassen · Applegate Trail · Thrust2 land speed record (1983) · Thrust SSC land speed record (1997) · CSXT Space Shot (2004)

Transportation	SR 447 · Old SR 34 · Old SR 48 · Old SR 49/Jungo Road · Empire Airport

Federal Lands	Black Rock-High Rock NCA · Black Rock Desert Wilderness · Calico Mountains Wilderness · East Fork High Rock Canyon Wilderness · High Rock Canyon Wilderness · High Rock Lake Wilderness · Little High Rock Canyon Wilderness · North Black Rock Range Wilderness · North Jackson Mountains Wilderness · Pahute Peak Wilderness · South Jackson Mountains Wilderness

Activities	Burning Man · High Power Rocketry · Land sailing · Camping · Rockhounding

v • d • e Airports in the San Francisco Bay Area

International	San Francisco (KSFO) · Oakland (KOAK) · San Jose (KSJC)

Federal	Moffett Field (KNUQ) · Travis AFB (KSUU)

General aviation (tower)	Concord/Buchanan (KCCR) · Hayward (KHWD) · Livermore (KLVK) · Napa (KAPC) · Palo Alto (KPAO) · San Jose/Reid-Hillview (KRHV) · San Carlos (KSQL) · Santa Rosa/Sonoma County (KSTS)

General aviation (non-tower)	Angwin-Parrett (2O3) · Byron (C83) · Marin County/Gnoss (KDVO) · Half Moon Bay (KHAF) · Healdsburg (O31) · Vacaville/Nut Tree (KVCB) · Petaluma (O69) · Rio Vista (O88) · Sonoma Skypark (0Q9) · Sonoma Valley (0Q3) · San Martin/South County (E16)

Closed	NAS Alameda · Crissy Field · Hamilton AFB

v • d • e San Jose and Silicon Valley attractions

Arboreta/Gardens	Arizona Cactus Garden · Chinese Cultural Garden · Hakone Gardens · Japanese Friendship Garden · Overfelt Gardens · SJ Municipal Rose Garden · Stanford Arboretum · Villa Montalvo Arboretum

Cultural	Ballet San Jose · Cathedral Basilica of St. Joseph · MLK Library · Gurdwara Sahib · Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies · Mexican Heritage Plaza · Opera San Jose · Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum · SJ Flea Market · SJ Museum of Art · SJ Rep Theatre · Viet Museum · Villa Montalvo

Event venues	HP Pavilion at San Jose · SC Convention Center · SJ Civic Auditorium · SJ Convention Center · SJ Municipal Stadium · Shoreline Amphitheatre · Spartan Stadium

Events	BayCon · Cinequest Film Festival · FanimeCon · Gilroy Garlic Festival · SJ Jazz Festival · Stanford Jazz Festival

Historical	Circle of Palms · Hangar One · History Park at Kelley Park · Peralta Adobe · Portuguese Historical Museum · Rengstorff House · SJ Museum of Quilts & Textiles · Winchester Mystery House

Parks/Trails	Almaden Quicksilver County Park · Alum Rock Park · Ed Levin Park · Grant Ranch Park · Guadalupe River Trail · Happy Hollow Park & Zoo · Henry W. Coe State Park · Kelley Park · Lake Cunningham · Los Alamitos Creek Trail · Los Gatos Creek Trail · Plaza de César Chávez · Rosicrucian Park · Sanborn Park · Shoreline Park · Stevens Creek Trail · Vasona Park

Science/Tech	Children's Discovery Museum · Computer History Museum · Intel Museum · Lick Observatory · NASA Ames Research Center · The Tech Museum of Innovation

Theme parks	Gilroy Gardens · Great America · Raging Waters

Vineyards/Wineries	Byington Vineyard · J Lohr Vineyards and Wines · Mountain Winery · Picchetti Brothers Winery · Savannah-Chanelle Vineyards · Testarossa Vineyards

[edit] My Images I've contributed

These are photos I've uploaded and contributed to Wikipedia (via Wikimedia Commons) of which I'm the photographer.

Delamar Dry Lake, Nevada on April 10, 2004	CSXT amateur space launch at Black Rock Desert, Nevada on May 17, 2004 (documents an historic event)	Black Rock Point at Nevada's Black Rock Desert with inferior mirage in foreground on June 19, 2004	SpaceShipOne landing at the Mojave Air & Space Port on June 21, 2004 (documents an historic event)
Two high-power rockets lift off at Nevada's Black Rock Desert carrying university research projects from Japan on Sep 24, 2004	night view of Lick Observatory on Mt Hamilton from Grant County Park showing open dome with telescope, stars track across sky in long exposure, June 25, 2005	Black Rock Desert in the late afternoon before a wind storm on Aug 6, 2005	aerial photo of Empire Airport in Empire, Nevada on June 17, 2006
fireworks in San Jose, California on July 4, 2007, appears in Independence Day story on WikiNews	Sierra Madera impact crater in West Texas viewed from US Hwy 385 on July 15, 2007	Black Rock Point at Nevada's Black Rock Desert partially obscured in a dust and sand storm on Aug 19, 2007	Aerial view of Interstate 580 in the Altamont Pass Wind Farm on Sep 11, 2007
Aerial view of the California Aqueduct at the Interstate 205 crossing on Sep 11, 2007	San Andreas Fault in the Carrizo Plain, aerial photo from 8500 feet on Nov 16, 2007	Gimli Glider at the Mojave Air & Space Port on Feb 12, 2008	aerial photo of William J Fox Airfield in Lancaster, California on Feb 28, 2008
aerial photo of Reid-Hillview Airport in San Jose on March 7, 2008 (photo taken by Craig Anderson with my camera while I flew the plane)	aerial photo of South County Airport in San Martin, California on Mar 31, 2008	night photo of The Tech Museum of Innovation in downtown San Jose on April 12, 2008	night photo of the Circle of Palms Plaza and San Jose Museum of Art in downtown San Jose on April 12, 2008
California State Seal at the Circle of Palms on April 20, 2008	Circle of Palms Plaza in downtown San Jose on April 23, 2008	East Mormon Mountains in southeast Nevada on May 26, 2008	Mormon Mountains in southeast Nevada on May 26, 2008