LordCrom

joined 2 years ago
[–] LordCrom@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

Agreed. There's a tremendous sense of satisfaction I get from eating what I grow.

And just fyi, those fell off the vine because of all the iguanas in south Florida. Invasive species that exploded in population....and they eat everything down to the stem. They crawl around on the vines knocking these down.

I've taken to buying dollar store wire waste paper baskets to cover seedlings so iguanas can't get to them

[–] LordCrom@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

What do you do to fight that? Soapy water with vinegar and salt?

[–] LordCrom@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

I hope it makes it. Good luck

[–] LordCrom@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Adding to the salad mix. Passion fruits turn into juice. And that cucumber was as big as my forearm.

[–] LordCrom@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

Correct. Added beets and cucumber to the salad. Still have spinach coming up too. I have dozens of passion fruits I strained into a juice.

 
[–] LordCrom@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

In s Florida, my tomatoes are barely holding on with 2 to 3 waterings per day under a screen shade. The heat and sun are just roasting my plants. The tomato leaves look like this before they get watered.

[–] LordCrom@lemmy.world 13 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

In Florida, power companies love solar, so long as it's them using it and selling it to you. If I put solar on my house, FPL successfully lobbied for a law stating I need a million dollar insurance policy payable to FPL for any accidents AND home insurance can deny hurricane coverage if there are roof panels on my house.

Fuck everybody and everything in this greedy ass state

[–] LordCrom@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I thought In New Zealand you are allowed to walk into an airport with a spear for ceremonial welcomes.

[–] LordCrom@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Those pictures are amazing.

Do you run into trouble with permits and Inspections because that type of skilled work can't be very common. Or is it?

[–] LordCrom@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Did they leave the beacon on again, which just happens to be cross shaped?

[–] LordCrom@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Complaints from those held there include lack of air conditioning...it was 96 in the shade today in south Florida, huge mosquitos...people from the North don't understand how big mosquitoes can get in the swamp, plus it's been raining so add in 100% humidity on top of everything else.

It's a terrible place to be held

[–] LordCrom@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Hey oooooooooo

 

Was able to pick enough for my dinner tonight.

 

The 1st flower wilted away....see it there in the left. The 2nd flower appeared and is much bigger and healthier. Waiting to see if I get any fruit here.

 

I have multiple eggplants in pots inside my screens. They are all flowering, but none are producing actual eggplants. Am I missing something?

 

It's been about 2 weeks since I took the 1st image I posted. This is today. The flower is looking kind of sad. Does this look normal? Does anyone know how to tell if it will fruit up by looking ?

 
 
 

So I got my proof of concept completed.
I took a simple USB RTL sdr with a ham it up all working through sdrsharp. I had a wideband directional antenna in my closet and hooked it up with a makeshift dovetail mount to the body of our 14" Meade lx200.

I went for Jupiter. Centered it on the Meade... Quickly discovered that I would need some sort of adjustment screws for the antenna.... But alignment aside, if I searched the general area I found a weak signal in 24 to 25 mhz. Move away and the strength would fall off, back on the planet and the signal would increase slightly.

Tells me my test works.

Now the trick. I will need a better antenna and I want opinions.

It has to be directional

It has to be lightweight, 2 pounds or less

Somehow I need to make fine adjustments to its direction at the base where it can mount to the scope. More of a mounting question than an antenna question.

Satellite dishes won't work because of space on and around the scope.

We are a non profit, so can't break the bank.

I'm open to any opinions.

 

Yep, as the director of a small observatory, I'm adding an antenna and a display of sdrsharp to hopefully show off radio emissions from our popular targets for public outreach. I'm sure most visitors won't care, but I hope to snag that 1 kid and feed his/her curiosity.

 

I was considering creating an open source project for an application that could send emails to your senators or reps on a schedule without having to manually enter info on those we forms everyone is using.

Web scraping and auto fill info kind of app.

Is this something that folks might want?

view more: next ›