Hi all,

I joined the list a few weeks back and have been enjoying the conversations and wonderful personality of everyone on here.

I got my license around 5 to 6 weeks ago. The call is KM4KRR and my name is Sina Bahram. I live in Cary, North Carolina.

About my gear and experience:

So far, I've explored channelized FM for the most part. I've got a Kenwood TK 762G and a Kenwood TK862G. a buddy programmed up repeaters on both for me, with simplex as well. I've also been playing with a baofang uv5r, and in addition to a slightly better antenna for it, I've currently got it hooked up to an antenna switch which feeds a diplexer going to the two kenwoods on A and the baofeng on B. there's just a folded dipole in the attic right now, but there's a comet gp3 right here which I cannot wait to try out. Then I can hopefully dedicate the folded dipole to letting me play with packet on 2m. I'm a bit of an audio geek, so I have one of my sends from the mixer routed to a box that my good friend, Tadd (KA2DEW), put together for me. the box lets me plug a music keyboard's foot peddle into it, and it has a quarter inch to feed from the mixer and two microphone cables coming out to feed the two kenwoods, so I can put my foot down when I wish to key up on either radio. There's a switch on the box for controlling which radio I want to speak to.

I would really love to start exploring hf as well, but I don't know Morse just yet so CW is out for me for now until I rectify that. I'm also not sure how I want to go about dipping my toe in the water for HF. There are so many options!

I'm excited about software defined radio, since that aligns super well with my development background, and I love the idea of combining my new passion for radio with my existing passion for code.

I'm looking forward to getting to know you fine folks better, and I thank you for the community and for having me on the list.

KM4KRR, clear

Take care,
Sina

President, Prime Access Consulting, Inc.
Twitter: @SinaBahram
Company Website: http://www.pac.bz
Personal Website: http://www.sinabahram.com
Blog: http://blog.sinabahram.com