Hello Steemit, from the place Australia occasionally forgets

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Hello Everyone, I've been told that the way to succeed and more importantly enjoy yourself in this wonderful place called Steemit; you need to introduce yourself and actually actively participate. So here goes:

My name is James or Jim as some call me. I live in Tasmania, Australia and unfortunately for those who didn't already know, our Tasmanian Devils don’t actually spin at high speed and destroy things unlike what cartoons would have you believe.

I spend my days working as an Engineering Draughtsman working on small residential projects and the occasional multi-million dollar commercial project. I started my career with the ambition of becoming an Architect. However, not everything went to plan. Which now I believe was meant to be. But more about that story later.

My hobbies include playing and listening to music, design and most recently, Amateur Radio. I've been playing guitar and bass in bands for 16 years to-date and have self-taught myself at least another dozen instruments. My next musical challenge is learning a brass instrument.

As long as I can remember, I've always been fiddling with drawing and designing. This made me think I wanted to be an Architect when I was younger. I now know that the process of creating a graphical representation of an idea is my passion.

Amateur Radio has been a new found passion (or obsession) of mine. Whether it is contesting, rag-chews or socialising the local radio club; it has been very enjoyable so far and I hope to further my knowledge in this area.

To finish up this introduction, thought I would document how I made my way to Steemit. I started out looking at Bitcoin. This naturally led to searching for other cryptocurrencies. This lead to LiteCoin. This got me eventually wondering what ‘blockchain’ is. This got me stumbling across IPFS, then dTube and finally, here I am.

I hope I am able to bring quality content in the very near future.

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Hey @jimmyjamjar10101. It's nice to see you here!

Hello and warm welcome to you here, hope you will enjoy this blogging platform.

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A warm welcome from me!
Wish u all the best,
Think wisely,before u post,it matters!
Be yourself,dont be ashamed about anything,show your true self,and everything will be as u want!
Good luck,and will see u around!
Cheers!
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Welcome to Steem @jimmyjamjar10101.

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Welcome to steemit.
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hi Jim ..Welcome to steemit. Please go through this post. It has a very important information for you which I feel will help you become successful in this platform. You can find other tips as well. I hope this helps :-) All the Best.. Follow me if you can :-)

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Hi James, welcome to Steemit!

What's with Tasmanian Devil anyway? I have seen the cartoon before but did not really watch or follow it through. If that is not your "real" Tasmanian Devil then what is it really?

What music genre are you up to? It looks like you're really into music to be learning to play different instruments on your own. And when you say amateur radio, do you mean being a disc jockey or something?

Thanks for the welcome. Sorry for the delayed response, I haven't been able to do anything on Steemit because of that Hardfork update.

I'm not sure what inspired the cartoon version of the Tasmanian Devil, but the real Tasmanian Devils are a small marsupial animal with black fur with white patches on their chest and tip of their tail and red ears. Whilst they are only the size of a small to medium house cat, they can be quite aggressive. However, they are very likely to run from humans. They are mostly aggressive towards each other when it comes to food (meat). The only real accurate thing about the cartoon version is that the sound produced by Taz isn't far from the sound produced by the real animal.

As for music, I really enjoy playing classic 70's rock. However, my listening tastes range from classical, to 1940's swing, through most of the rock genres and pop genres between 1960-1990 and the occasional song from today. I must admit I don't tend to listen to music made recently as I find it too similar and often over produced.

Amateur Radio is a hobby where we use transceiver radios to make contacts with other radio amateurs. Some radios look like walkie talkies, whilst others look like CB car or home CB radios. We're able to make contacts over very long distances (often the other side of the world) and we're not just limited to voice contacts. We have morse code and now more recently, digital modes that can in some ways turn our radios into a second internet allowing keyboard-to-keyboard chat and the sending of images and other data.

If you would like to know more or possibly see me play some covers (or maybe even some original music), follow me. I hope to post some amateur radio related stuff, some music related topics, the occasional joke and topics just about life in general.

Thanks again for welcoming me to Steemit!

Welcome

Welcome to steemit family. Keep posting. I'm following you follow me back If you can.