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[–] linuxguy@lemmy.gregw.us 1 points 20 hours ago

Because there's no context or complete thoughts.

[–] linuxguy@lemmy.gregw.us 2 points 6 days ago

Sun is all O_0

[–] linuxguy@lemmy.gregw.us 7 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Looking for a self-hosted period tracking app with companion android app. Have done literally zero investigation at this point but it's on my todo.

 
[–] linuxguy@lemmy.gregw.us 3 points 1 week ago

Gotta agree. Even better if backed by zfs.

[–] linuxguy@lemmy.gregw.us 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Use zfs, raid 10 the big drives, toss the 8tb, and use the ssd as a write cache.

[–] linuxguy@lemmy.gregw.us 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

How about a node in an airplane. I've gotten crazy long contacts via airplane hop.

 

I bought a RSPduo recently and it has two receive tuners; each with a dedicated antenna connection. It'll receive from 1kHz to 2GHz. I plan on hooking a DMN-D3000N that'll receive 25-3,000MHz and I'd really like to avoid running two separate antennas for it. At least until I can figure out how to run a proper long-wire to port one parallel and close to my dipole without frying things...

Anyway, 50-ohm antenna splitters seem to be pretty narrow bandwidth wise. Would splicing together two connectors and the antenna feed line work so that I could plug the one antenna into both tuners?

Bonus question: I'll probably put a DXE-RG5000HD RF guard inline to prevent my transmissions from harming anything attached to the discone. Would the same work with the long wire antenna were I to just stick the wire in the middle of the BNC connector?

[–] linuxguy@lemmy.gregw.us 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Grats. There's lots of nodes than don't say "OK to mqtt" and thus don't show up on the map. Maybe you'll be less alone than you think.

[–] linuxguy@lemmy.gregw.us 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What's the 9 character meta?

[–] linuxguy@lemmy.gregw.us 35 points 2 months ago (2 children)

This community is the highlight of my lemmy browsing experience every time I come across it.

 

This climbing aloe has been in its pot for a couple of years. It lives inside during the cooler months and outside in the sun during the warm ones. It had a trellis until today when I removed it due to the plant not really climbing the trellis.

I'm thinking a couple things to improve the situation here:

  1. Repot it into something broader but not as deep, unless the roots are that deep.
  2. Perhaps a bit better drainage.
  3. A trellis that's closer to the plants height, can handle the weight, and isn't 6 feet tall.

What's your rating? Thoughts on how to improve this situation?

 

Listening to a local repeater and the waterfall display shows some pretty wide modulation whenever the repeater is in use. If I'm showing +/- 50kHz on the scope then the repeater's bandwidth is frequently 20+ even 60+ kHz.

Given that FM voice bandwidth is typically less than 15 kHz, this would indicate a failure somewhere on the repeater tx side of things right?

 

Picture taken straight from my account at TreasuryDirect. I know that i-bond interest rates reset every 6 months but it looks like bonds issued in April and October get special treatment? Seeing this, I'm not sure why I wouldn't just make two purchases a year, only in April and October, and reap almost double the gains? I feel like I'm missing something obvious here.

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