As for the WIA Summer VHF/UHF/SHF Field Day Contest held on Saturday/Sunday 18th/19th January, 2020, I wasn't able to participate as I was working that weekend.
Next contest is the John Moyle Field Memorial Field Day Contest, to be held Saturday/Sunday 21st/22nd March 2020. This time I have properly completed 10GHz portable setup to take away with me, plus the usual 3.4 GHz, 23cm, 70cm, 2m, 6m maybe some HF. Probably go to Gowan NSW grid square QF46pu to operate portable.
JMFD Contest details
Friday, February 21, 2020
Central Coast Field Day 2020
its on again, ......
Sunday 23rd February, 2020, the CCARC (Central Coast Amateur Radio Club) Field Day at Wyong racecourse, I see from the APRS.fi page there are even VK5's doing a road trip to come to CCARC Field Day. I going up early Sunday, see whats available in the boot sales, ie. potential microwave bits and pieces.
Unfortunately, it clashes with the 23 on 23 Microwave Activity Day, which coincides with 23rd of the month, where we activate microwaves bands, which happens to be on a weekend this month.
https://www.ccarc.org.au/ccarc-wyong-field-day-site-layout/
Sunday 23rd February, 2020, the CCARC (Central Coast Amateur Radio Club) Field Day at Wyong racecourse, I see from the APRS.fi page there are even VK5's doing a road trip to come to CCARC Field Day. I going up early Sunday, see whats available in the boot sales, ie. potential microwave bits and pieces.
Unfortunately, it clashes with the 23 on 23 Microwave Activity Day, which coincides with 23rd of the month, where we activate microwaves bands, which happens to be on a weekend this month.
https://www.ccarc.org.au/ccarc-wyong-field-day-site-layout/
latest Linux flavours as of February 2020
I was just checking up on the latest non-commercial flavours and spins of Linux going around, predominantly w.r.t. 32 bit versions that may still be available, considering Ubuntu, Centos, Fedora, RedHat have long dropped their 32bit versions and that I still like to run Linux on my old Dell Xeon based servers.
so as of February 2020 this is what I found :
Peppermint Linux version10, LXDE desktop, based on Lubuntu, Community oriented, 32 and 64bit
Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS this was the last 32bit version. 18.04.3 LTS and 19.10 only in 64bit.
flavours Kubuntu with KDE desktop, Lubuntu with LXDE desktop, Ubuntu with MATE desktop, Xubuntu with Xfce desktop.
Debian 10.2 - choice of GNOME, KDE, LXDE, Xfce, Cinnamon and MATE desktops, 32 and 64bit and of course, Debian is very community oriented.
Linux Mint - has two streams:
- LMDE3 based on Debian Stretch 9.11
- Mint 19.3 based on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS with choice of Cinnamon, MATE and Xfce desktops
both offering 32 and 64bit, but not expecting any further 32bit releases of this Mint stream.
MX Linux version 19.1 based on Debian with Xfce 4.14 desktop. 32 and 64bit. and is community oriented.
What caught my eye here was that there still some 32bit streams being produced, they will eventually dry up, but I can still experiment with latest Linux versions on old 32bit servers whilst they still work.
The second thing was the Cinnamon and MATE desktop offerings, as I have not tried these desktops before, so keen to try them out. The MX Linux I had not heard of before, but talking to my work colleague he seemed pretty keen on the MX Linux, he looking at it from a Developer perspective.
Comparison_of_Linux_distributions
ADDENDUM:
since writing the above, I had a further look into the desktops, in particular Cinnamon and MATE, so basically these are forked development streams off GNOME2, as GNOME3 was a major departure in that desktop environment in term of looks and behaviour. Just think of Cinnamon and MATE desktops as spinoffs of GNOME2. IMHO I preferred GNOME2 over GNOME3, because I not looking for flash presentation in a O/S, its about running applications and speed of doing work and the ability of the O/S to integrate between the applications easily and how fast you can do it. Think of it comparing Windows XP with Windows10, you could strip down Win XP and make it fast.
so as of February 2020 this is what I found :
Peppermint Linux version10, LXDE desktop, based on Lubuntu, Community oriented, 32 and 64bit
Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS this was the last 32bit version. 18.04.3 LTS and 19.10 only in 64bit.
flavours Kubuntu with KDE desktop, Lubuntu with LXDE desktop, Ubuntu with MATE desktop, Xubuntu with Xfce desktop.
Debian 10.2 - choice of GNOME, KDE, LXDE, Xfce, Cinnamon and MATE desktops, 32 and 64bit and of course, Debian is very community oriented.
Linux Mint - has two streams:
- LMDE3 based on Debian Stretch 9.11
- Mint 19.3 based on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS with choice of Cinnamon, MATE and Xfce desktops
both offering 32 and 64bit, but not expecting any further 32bit releases of this Mint stream.
MX Linux version 19.1 based on Debian with Xfce 4.14 desktop. 32 and 64bit. and is community oriented.
What caught my eye here was that there still some 32bit streams being produced, they will eventually dry up, but I can still experiment with latest Linux versions on old 32bit servers whilst they still work.
The second thing was the Cinnamon and MATE desktop offerings, as I have not tried these desktops before, so keen to try them out. The MX Linux I had not heard of before, but talking to my work colleague he seemed pretty keen on the MX Linux, he looking at it from a Developer perspective.
Comparison_of_Linux_distributions
ADDENDUM:
since writing the above, I had a further look into the desktops, in particular Cinnamon and MATE, so basically these are forked development streams off GNOME2, as GNOME3 was a major departure in that desktop environment in term of looks and behaviour. Just think of Cinnamon and MATE desktops as spinoffs of GNOME2. IMHO I preferred GNOME2 over GNOME3, because I not looking for flash presentation in a O/S, its about running applications and speed of doing work and the ability of the O/S to integrate between the applications easily and how fast you can do it. Think of it comparing Windows XP with Windows10, you could strip down Win XP and make it fast.
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