recently I did the upgrade of my old ASUS laptop from Linux Mint 22.2 to 22.3 successfully.
The upgrade tools get easier to use each time.
As I said in the past, if you got an old PC or Laptop that is too old and slow for MS Windows, then recycle it and install a flavour of Linux on it for a new fast, lease of life.
Friday, February 13, 2026
Linux Mint upgraded to 22.3
Interference across 6metre band in Frenchs Forest area,
Interference across 6metre band in Frenchs Forest, NSW area
Over last couple months the interference has become worse across 6metre band, more noticeable, whilst scanning the 6metre FM repeater segment, I did a sweep from 46-60 Mhz and found there is wide band signal covering 52.500 to 57 MHz, the signal strength varies from s5 to s9 across that segment.
I suspect it radiating from Northern Beaches Hospital, possibly some piece of medical scanning equipment.
If scan across the band with a narrow band receiver, it just seems like white noise, but the signal strength meter shows there is something there.
This happened a few years ago and I tracked it to the hospital.and suddenly it went away.
UPDATE: 19 Feb 2026
I spent some time doing better sweep, due to hearing some sort of buzz sound opening the mute on a repeater output frequency. Superimposed on that buzz sound is a click at approximately 1 per second rate, noted in the morning, afternoon and night at times when I checked. I swept from 46 to 60 MHz, these are the frequencies I noted the buzz sound on.
these following frequencies were weak s0 but clearly audible :
50.030 50.060 51.280 51.870 52.140
these following frequencies were strong ie. s5 to s9 :
52.440 53.080 53.640 53.690 54.240 54.280 54.840 55.500 56.050 56.090
these following frequencies were weak s0 but clearly audible :
57.270 57.310 57.900 58.470 59.110 59.680 59.720
Overall, the raised S-meter was from 52.500 to 57 MHz, where as the narrow bandwidth buzz sound is heard from 50MHz to 60MHz