PA0O ham radio

Fttb the S.A.  every evening party is  over at  10 and 12m even 1 morning VK8ZI was decoded 3x at 12m 2m is not too bad as replacement  here QRP 10W  i was busy preparing a small SS PA 2x100W that should be enough for FT8 and occasionally CW /PHONE at 144 

SFI  low 70 a 16 K3  still 10m opened up in afternoon to N-Italy EA5 F JN33 F/PD0OHW/M in JN33 decoded 150mW VP8LP  12m    2-way with GP 7m ag swr 1:3 60m 5,362 open to ZL every? morning

nice opening 28MHz  Sunday evening   FT8 (what else..)

My low power Laptop Dell D420 was running W7 and wspr 2.21 for 2 years 24*7 Then i switched it off for some time, the accu pack died Never did reboot W7 again so need to install new OS I prefer W10 but that will need a faster system Ubuntu was not stable it lost WLAN randomly Good moment to give Linux Mint a try And Mint is nice and stable firefox  had some issues not recovering and cloning tabs maybe i'l try google. Ubuntu also had issues with crashing pages in firefox after reboot I have never seen this with IE or Chrome in W7 or W10 Everything else works  easier in Mint ! Except the choice off apps Installed WSJT-x 1.9.1   the latest Mint version atm Then the first linux-struggle was to get CAT connected to the IC706 relative easy once you know how it goes.. CAT  Hamlibs install  I downloaded and unzipped HAMLIB 3.2 followed the install instructions Then if you do it right the screen will scroll for 5minutes at least w...