Welcome Kori. Thanks for the bio.
You and I have similar interests. My formal education ended with a degree in Physics and Math, with a minor in Physical Chemistry, back in 1968. Spent 154 semester hours in this pursuit. In my senior year I took a course called celestial mechanics given by a NASA employee, Dr Jerry Modisette. I really liked him. At the end of the course he offered me a job as his understudy at NASA. His job was space shuttle hull design, to prevent rupture from small space debris while in orbit. It sounded interesting, but required a PhD. He got me registered at Rice graduate school, but I only attended one semester. Basically, I was tired of college, and wanted to have a family, so I apologized and told him I was dropping the plan. He understood. I have always wondered about that decision, but I now have a family that I am proud of. Gordon West does a good job with the Extra class study guide. I used it many years ago to get my Extra class license. A few years ago I gave an Extra class license class. The West guide was used. There were ten students, and five of them passed their exam. We used the practice exams on QRZ to prepare for the exam. Funny story, before giving the class I took the exam and flunked. So, I studied the guide and got to where I passed every time. The most difficulty was with the questions involving cartesian and polar coordinates of impedance. I had forgotten a lot of math over the years. I am a contester and DX’er, using SSB and CW. Need to learn more about the new digital modes F8 and F4. So, when you figure that out, I hope you will come over and help me set up a digital station. In exchange I can give you a few tips on operating HF. 73, Keith NM5G From: BVARC <bvarc-boun...@bvarc.org> On Behalf Of Kori Rahman via BVARC Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2020 3:50 PM To: 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 <mailto:kori...@gmail.com> kori...@gmail.com <mailto:kori...@gmail.com>
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