KJ, JP, Mark, Jeff, Ravi thanks for the welcome. Yep Mark I got my call sign some time yesterday morning, I had been constantly refreshing the ULS page ever since the exam. I checked in with the Alaska Morning Net yesterday and the BVARC net at noon on the 146.940 repeater today. I'm pretty much line of sight with the Missouri City antenna farm so the signal is great even indoors.
Jeff, that HF setup sounds like a nice little project. I will definitely look into that Hermes Lite project as well. As far as the exams study, I'm definitely going to have to memorize those band plans and privileges, but I do like the theory stuff and hope to study a bit more about antenna design. The flip flops, op-amps, and logic gates and so on are pretty familiar to me already. I studied impedance, inductance, capacitance, phase diagrams and so on in college but I think there's a bit of nomenclature and charts etc that are different. Hopefully the explanations in Gordon West's book will help round out my knowledge enough to reason my way through the exam questions. Thanks again! 73! -KORI On Thu, Dec 10, 2020, 5:38 PM KJ Anderson via BVARC <bvarc@bvarc.org> wrote: > Welcome!!! > > > > 73 de KJ5EMP > > > > *-------------------------------------------------* > > *KJ Anderson* > > 253-380-2636 > > www.linkedin.com/in/scrumnerd > > > > *From:* BVARC <bvarc-boun...@bvarc.org> *On Behalf Of *JP Pritchard via > BVARC > *Sent:* Thursday, December 10, 2020 5:20 PM > *To:* 'BRAZOS VALLEY AMATEUR RADIO CLUB' <bvarc@bvarc.org> > *Cc:* jppn...@comcast.net > *Subject:* Re: [BVARC] Self Introduction: Kori > > > > Welcome Kori. > > > > JP, 73, K5JPP > > > > > > *From:* BVARC <bvarc-boun...@bvarc.org> *On Behalf Of *mark janzer via > BVARC > *Sent:* Thursday, December 10, 2020 4:07 PM > *To:* bvarc@bvarc.org > *Cc:* mark janzer <k5...@yahoo.com>; Kori Rahman <kori...@gmail.com> > *Subject:* Re: [BVARC] Self Introduction: Kori > > > > Welcome aboard Kori! > > It's good to see that the turn around, from Saturday's testing, to having > your new call sign was 4 days. > > > > 73 > > Mark > > K5MGJ > > > > On Thursday, December 10, 2020, 03:50:05 PM CST, Kori Rahman via BVARC < > bvarc@bvarc.org> wrote: > > > > > > 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 > > > <kori...@gmail.com> > > ________________________________________________ > Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club > > BVARC mailing list > BVARC@bvarc.org > http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org > ________________________________________________ > Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club > > BVARC mailing list > BVARC@bvarc.org > http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org >
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