Today marks 2 months since I joined Steemit.
In the past month, I have achieved:
Another 136 followers for a total of 360 (THANK YOU!!!!)
reputation of 43.1
an account worth $113 - the high was $155 before the crash.
nearly 1350 posts and comments
enough steem power so that I no longer have "bandwidth" issues!
I know that some grow faster than I, but I also have mostly kept to my photography, not asked for "upvote-for-upvote" or "follow-for-follow." All "organic" growth.
I will repeat and expand my short series this week about what I have learned during my time on Steemit thus far, things I wish I'd known from the start that might help other newbies.
Here is a little bit more about me.
I am a ham radio operator of the General Class.
My original license was passed clear back in 1986 when I passed the Novice class license. Back then, ham radio required Morse Code and although I did not answer the 7 of 10 questions required, I exceeded the solid copy required with 2 minutes of perfect copy once I got going.
Two years later, I upgraded to Technician.
While I was in the UK, I was unable to renew my license as renewal required US physical presence, which I did not have at that time. When I returned to the US in 2013, one of the first things I did was to get back my radio license the following January.
I figured that since I'd been a Novice before and a Technician, this time I was going to get my General. And that's what I did. I was the only one in the room to sit all three exams. I did take the Extra exam - mostly because I could... and had encouraged another ham at my table to do so (he passed) - I scored 53% - not enough, but not bad considering I had not studied Extra material at all. My husband (an Extra) wants me to take it again. I may do... But a piece of paper giving me all the privileges a ham can have doesn't help me overcome the shyness I have at being on the air... I prefer the written word (so, yes, I should be working on digital modes.)
When I lived in Vancouver, Washington, I was registered with ARES - Amateur Radio Emergency Services - where I learned useful skills for working a disaster. Even my radio shyness melts away when there's something important to do! I used these skills to help keep information flowing on Facebook when NE Washington was suffering their devastating fires in 2015. One never knows when the training will become useful. I hope I don't have to use these skills again, but if disaster strikes, I'd much rather be able to be helpful!
Anyway, I think that's it for this month's "anniversary" - since it's a month - or a "moon" should it be a lunarversary???
Before I go, one thing I've been thinking of posting is some of my poetry and/or my novellas which I've been writing over the years. Those, I would post chapter by chapter and (where appropriate) include the link to my Amazon author's page where you could buy the book if you so desired... What are your thoughts on this?
Thanks to EVERYONE for your support. It really does mean a lot to me, especially when I manage to get a dolphin to follow me. (Not a minnow, not a whale... is that a dolphin? Minding that only one of those three are actually a fish...)
Lori Aberle Hopkins – photographer at Viking Visual, author, student-of-the-world.
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