Howdy Kori, Those of us in are 30's may not consider ourselves old, but when
you compare to the age of most hams, we're young. Hence why I jokingly call
myself a triple minority: 1) Relatively young (38) 2) Female 3) Female ham
without anyone else in the family being a ham operator. NO ONE, I went out and
got it on my own.
Welcome to the hobby and the club!! Sorry I missed the meeting, but unlike
someone whom I shall be good and not name, I didn't want to zoom while driving
into Houston tonight.
Theresa Williams KE5MUX
On Friday, December 11, 2020, 4:01:28 AM CST, Kori Rahman via BVARC
<bvarc@bvarc.org> wrote:
Hello Scott,
Thank you so much for the words of encouragement. I know that (as was mentioned
in the ZOOM call earlier) the HAM community is an aging group and that you all
want to see the hobby pass down to the younger generations. I actually got my
call sign as a late birthday present, I turned 33 on December 8th. I wouldn't
consider myself a "young man", but I understand many of you would. I am really
excited about this new hobby of mine and I hope that I can help this (my) club
move forward into the future.
As I mentioned before, THANK YOU to everyone. You've all been very encouraging.
I think my main focus for the next few weeks will be studying for the Extra
Exam, but the list of new things to explore has really expanded.
73s!
S. Kori Rahman
KI5MKU
Cell: (770) 298 8516
kori...@gmail.com
On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 11:38 PM Scott Medbury via BVARC <bvarc@bvarc.org>
wrote:
Kori,
Welcome to your club. And it is your club too . Al are welcome and your input
is vital. We are continually trying to improve it and have programs and
activities that appeal to all interests and levels.
73 de Scott KD5FBA
On Thu, Dec 10, 2020, 10:55 PM Kori Rahman via BVARC <bvarc@bvarc.org> wrote:
Hey Mark,
Yeah I'm sure I can give you a few phrases. Something like "Hello" and "The
weather is nice today" or anything more specific? Those are "안녕하세요"
(ahn-young-ha-seh-yo) and "오늘은 날씨가 좋습니다" (oh-neul-eun nal-she-gah
joe-seum-nee-dah) respectively, the "eu" vowels are basically like that sound
that Lucy makes in "I Love Lucy" when she gets in trouble. LOL All other sounds
are basically as written.
Pronunciation is really hard to get right the first time with Korean, and is
essential given that their words are usually very short. The thing that makes
it difficult is mainly because they have a few very different vowels. I suggest
listening to words several times to see if you can match them.
Good references: Talk to me in Korean, The Seoul National University Korean
Textbook (I used in college).To be honest this is NOT a language to pick up
quickly, so if you're looking for quick and dirty, phrase books are good
(particularly if they have a CD). Maybe we can try it out over HAM?
Yes Korean grammar is VERY different. Their word order is different, they have
these things called "particles" which connote subject or object, extremely
complex verb conjugations which can indicate not only tense, but formality
(there are at least 3 common ones), imperative, as a statement vs a questions,
can be modified to indicate the verb as a noun or adjective, etc. So because of
that, google is risky for anything but the simplest of sentences.
I got into Korean because of... a girl in college... But I still listen to
Kpop. If you don't know what that is don't look it up. If you do look it up,
look up "보아 - 나무".
73!
S. Kori Rahman
KI5MKU
Cell: (770) 298 8516
kori...@gmail.com
On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 9:53 PM Mark Brantana via BVARC <bvarc@bvarc.org> wrote:
Kori,
Hi welcome to the airways. I wish I had taken the initiative to introduce
myself as you have. Great to read your story.
One thing, I have some older Korean neighbors next door who do not speak a word
of English. I think they had just arrived state-sides when their family moved
them in. They are wonderful dear people, and we communicate by badly done hand
signals. I would love to be equipped with a couple of key phrases and was
wondering if you might have a few key phrases. They are not hams of course. Do
you have some reference suggestions you could point me toward? I am aware that
Korean is likely very different linguistically from English.
Hope we might be able to meet up us on the Stir Crazy Net at 146.940 noon
weekdays or the Monday Night net at 8 pm same frequency.
MarkN5PRD
On Dec 10, 2020, at 3:49 PM, 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
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