"Turn Bluetooth On" with a keyboard shortcut

Does anyone know how to set a keyboard shortcut to "Turn Bluetooth On"?
I've looked in the keyboard shortcuts menu, and all I can do is add a keyboard shortcut to an application, but I don't know which application or command I need to set a keyboard shortcut to.
Thanks

I just emailed Dan, and asked him how he made shortcuts to menu items. He replied:
"It evidently varies by menu; some of the "Menu Extra" menus -- those on the
right-hand side of the menu bar -- let you assign shortcuts, whereas others
don't. Even when they do, I've discovered that the keyboard shortcut doesn't
always work. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news! The alternative is a bit
trickier: Creating AppleScripts for such purposes and then using a
third-party utility to assign those scripts to keyboard shortcuts."
I have had good luck using automator to follow my actions, in turning on and off the airport from the menu bar. One problem I found was Automator recognised me clicking the Airport icon, moving down the dropdown menu, but it would not recognise me clicking "Turn AirPort Off". So I had to click on airport icon, then use arrow keys, and Enter key, to select "Turn Airport Off". Then simply make an "application" for this action in Automator, and use some third party app to make a short cut to the automator-created app. I'm going to try out using Spark :http://www.shadowlab.org/Software/spark.php, but you could probably use Quicksilver too.

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