Welcome, Kori! I echo just about everything Jeff said, including the fact that this, my second foray into ham radio, started with a Baofeng HT.
73! Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 10, 2020, at 4:04 PM, Jeff Greer via BVARC <bvarc@bvarc.org> wrote: > > > Nice to meet you, Kori, and welcome to the club! It's a friendly bunch, so > don't be afraid to ask questions here. You'll find somebody here is bound to > know something about almost everything, and most of us will pretend to even > if we don't. 😉 > > When you're ready to cram for Extra, check out hamexam.org. (If you're a > question memorizer - no judgment - beware that there a 3-4 pairs of lookalike > questions with different answers, if I recall correctly...) > > If you want to start listening on HF, I think you can do so with a Raspberry > Pi, an SDR USB dongle, and a piece of wire for an antenna. You'll need a > speaker or earbuds or something to hear the audio... Sounds like you're > technical, so you might also check out Hermes Lite project; it's a lower-cost > software-defined HF rig built on off-the-shelf parts, which I'm told has a > receive sensitivity that is equal (or superior) to an Icom 7300's... > > I, too, started with a UV5R, and I once heard an astronaut aboard the ISS > talking to an earthbound ham (a scheduled QSO and the earth station worked > for NASA) with my UV5R and what I think was a fake Nagoya antenna... > > -j > > From: BVARC <bvarc-boun...@bvarc.org> on behalf of Kori Rahman via BVARC > <bvarc@bvarc.org> > Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2020 3:49 PM > To: bvarc@bvarc.org <bvarc@bvarc.org> > Cc: Kori Rahman <kori...@gmail.com> > Subject: [BVARC] Self Introduction: Kori > > Hello all, > > I'm Sheikh "Kori" Rahman (KI5MKU), I just joined the BVARC last Saturday when > I took my exams and I wanted to go ahead and introduce myself to everyone. I > am an Aerospace Engineer by education (Masters in AE from GA Tech 2011), with > some experience in the Oil and Gas industry. Currently living in Sugar Land, > TX. I have been aware of the amateur radio hobby for a long time but never > took the steps to apply until last month. Having been unemployed for a good > while now, I have taken up a lot of self-study in this time. While studying > tensor analysis I realized just how similar the equations of fluid dynamics > were to Maxwell's equations, and so I started learning more about > electromagnetic waves. One thing led to another and "The Algorithm" suggested > HAM radio, so I went ahead and took the leap. I contacted Mark (K5MGJ) about > testing, studied on YouTube and HamStudy.org for a month and passed my Tech > and General. I will be studying Gordon West's (WB6NOA) book for the Extra > class exam and plan to take it next month. > > Looks like there are a lot of very smart folks in this club and I hope to > learn a lot from and hopefully contribute to the club as well. Right now my > main interests are exploring digital modes, and RACES/ARES emergency > communications. I have been programming and building circuits projects since > I was about 12 and I like making random programs for fun. The more I learn > about HAM the more I realize I should have done this a long time ago! So I > really want to learn about the digital modes and maybe at some point > contribute to the software that exists or create more. I'm no stranger to > RaspberryPi, Arduino and other microcontrollers, which in my preliminary > overview of HAM appear to be used a lot. For now I've just got my cheap > little BaoFeng UV-5R which I have programmed using CHIRP. Hope to upgrade to > maybe a mobile UHF/VHF unit soon. I would like to try HF at some point down > the road as well, because the idea of off-grid long range communication > sounds really cool to me. > > I have a long list of hobbies so I'll spare you unless anyone is interested. > However, if there are any Korean speakers please contact me. Anyway, that's > my spiel, feel free to contact me by responding to this email or directly. I > will be attending the ZOOM meeting tonight as well. Thanks! 73s everyone! > S. Kori Rahman (KI5MKU) > Cell: (770) 298 8516 > kori...@gmail.com > > ________________________________________________ > Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club > > BVARC mailing list > BVARC@bvarc.org > http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org
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