Greetings! Forgetful John, KI5HOC
On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 9:07 PM D. Howard Bingham via BVARC <bvarc@bvarc.org> wrote: > 73 > > D. Howard Bingham > > KE5APJ > > -- > On 12/10/2020 3:49 PM, Kori Rahman via BVARC 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 > listBVARC@bvarc.orghttp://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org > > -- > D. Howard Bingham *Email: ke5...@earthlink.net > 2722 Wisdom Drive *Email: binghamdav...@gmail.com > Deer Park, Texas *Ph: 281-684-5301 (Voice/Text) > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Supporting Passenger Rail in Texas - www.TEXARP.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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