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 <mailto:kori...@gmail.com> <mailto:kori...@gmail.com>
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