Most common connector out there. Little time with the solder gun and you will be all set. If you are unsure how to do it hit up your most project heavy local ham.. they will get her done in like 5 minutes.
Bingo. That would be my first move. Use some quick set JB weld and you should be back on the air in 10 mins. If that fails, then solder in a new connector. Order one to have on hand.
If you can do basic soldering it should be very easy to replace. Finding a two-hole-mounting socket is probably the hardest part as they are usually square with four-hole mounting.
Take off the outer covering, unsolder the coax from the old one, remove and replace the connector and resolder it. This is a very simple job for someone with basic skills & a soldering iron.
>Finding a two-hole-mounting socket is probably the hardest part as they are usually square with four-hole mounting.
Just use two holes and don't put screws in the other two. It's more than enough to hold the connector in place.
Reddit has long been a hot spot for conversation on the internet. About 57 million people visit the site every day to chat about topics as varied as makeup, video games and pointers for power washing driveways.
In recent years, Reddit’s array of chats also have been a free teaching aid for companies like Google, OpenAI and Microsoft. Those companies are using Reddit’s conversations in the development of giant artificial intelligence systems that many in Silicon Valley think are on their way to becoming the tech industry’s next big thing.
Now Reddit wants to be paid for it. The company said on Tuesday that it planned to begin charging companies for access to its application programming interface, or A.P.I., the method through which outside entities can download and process the social network’s vast selection of person-to-person conversations.
“The Reddit corpus of data is really valuable,” Steve Huffman, founder and chief executive of Reddit, said in an interview. “But we don’t need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free.”
The move is one of the first significant examples of a social network’s charging for access to the conversations it hosts for the purpose of developing A.I. systems like ChatGPT, OpenAI’s popular program. Those new A.I. systems could one day lead to big businesses, but they aren’t likely to help companies like Reddit very much. In fact, they could be used to create competitors — automated duplicates to Reddit’s conversations.
Reddit is also acting as it prepares for a possible initial public offering on Wall Street this year. The company, which was founded in 2005, makes most of its money through advertising and e-commerce transactions on its platform. Reddit said it was still ironing out the details of what it would charge for A.P.I. access and would announce prices in the coming weeks.
Reddit’s conversation forums have become valuable commodities as large language models, or L.L.M.s, have become an essential part of creating new A.I. technology.
L.L.M.s are essentially sophisticated algorithms developed by companies like Google and OpenAI, which is a close partner of Microsoft. To the algorithms, the Reddit conversations are data, and they are among the vast pool of material being fed into the L.L.M.s. to develop them.
The underlying algorithm that helped to build Bard, Google’s conversational A.I. service, is partly trained on Reddit data. OpenAI’s Chat GPT cites Reddit data as one of the sources of information it has been trained on.
Other companies are also beginning to see value in the conversations and images they host. Shutterstock, the image hosting service, also sold image data to OpenAI to help create DALL-E, the A.I. program that creates vivid graphical imagery with only a text-based prompt required.
Last month, Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter, said he was cracking down on the use of Twitter’s A.P.I., which thousands of companies and independent developers use to track the millions of conversations across the network. Though he did not cite L.L.M.s as a reason for the change, the new fees could go well into the tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars.
To keep improving their models, artificial intelligence makers need two significant things: an enormous amount of computing power and an enormous amount of data. Some of the biggest A.I. developers have plenty of computing power but still look outside their own networks for the data needed to improve their algorithms. That has included sources like Wikipedia, millions of digitized books, academic articles and Reddit.
Representatives from Google, Open AI and Microsoft did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Reddit has long had a symbiotic relationship with the search engines of companies like Google and Microsoft. The search engines “crawl” Reddit’s web pages in order to index information and make it available for search results. That crawling, or “scraping,” isn’t always welcome by every site on the internet. But Reddit has benefited by appearing higher in search results.
The dynamic is different with L.L.M.s — they gobble as much data as they can to create new A.I. systems like the chatbots.
Reddit believes its data is particularly valuable because it is continuously updated. That newness and relevance, Mr. Huffman said, is what large language modeling algorithms need to produce the best results.
“More than any other place on the internet, Reddit is a home for authentic conversation,” Mr. Huffman said. “There’s a lot of stuff on the site that you’d only ever say in therapy, or A.A., or never at all.”
Mr. Huffman said Reddit’s A.P.I. would still be free to developers who wanted to build applications that helped people use Reddit. They could use the tools to build a bot that automatically tracks whether users’ comments adhere to rules for posting, for instance. Researchers who want to study Reddit data for academic or noncommercial purposes will continue to have free access to it.
Reddit also hopes to incorporate more so-called machine learning into how the site itself operates. It could be used, for instance, to identify the use of A.I.-generated text on Reddit, and add a label that notifies users that the comment came from a bot.
The company also promised to improve software tools that can be used by moderators — the users who volunteer their time to keep the site’s forums operating smoothly and improve conversations between users. And third-party bots that help moderators monitor the forums will continue to be supported.
But for the A.I. makers, it’s time to pay up.
“Crawling Reddit, generating value and not returning any of that value to our users is something we have a problem with,” Mr. Huffman said. “It’s a good time for us to tighten things up.”
“We think that’s fair,” he added.
Mike Isaac is a technology correspondent and the author of “Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber,” a best-selling book on the dramatic rise and fall of the ride-hailing company. He regularly covers Facebook and Silicon Valley, and is based in San Francisco. More about Mike Isaac
A version of this article appears in print on , Section B, Page 4 of the New York edition with the headline: Reddit’s Sprawling Content Is Fodder for the Likes of ChatGPT. But Reddit Wants to Be Paid.. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe
A quick search shows them available on e bay
https://www.ebay.com/itm/203897246041?chn=ps&var=504361223076&_trkparms=ispr%3D1&amdata=enc%3A1ErP4QA7DQ7Gkvvu3I3_rCg32&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-117182-37290-0&mkcid=2&mkscid=101&itemid=504361223076_203897246041&targetid=1584739237574&device=m&mktype=pla&googleloc=9023713&poi=&campaignid=19894961968&mkgroupid=148855406073&rlsatarget=pla-1584739237574&abcId=9307911&merchantid=102011948&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiAuYuvBhApEiwAzq_YiTB2t1F_oO9gJkWncSViA96Y0ccM4UCKoDOwR5sHM9VUxM_A5rzsrRoCkLoQAvD_BwE
Since that is the primary socket you might as well spring for a [good shite](https://www.ebay.com/itm/402322748972?itmmeta=01HR0K25RF2HVH7KX62SXHRBAJ&hash=item5dac4df62c:g:H7AAAOSwzYJfCdjH&itmprp=enc%3AAQAIAAAA4GtlhgBB4ZE62Qrg7zL%2BCP3UPfYDL%2BxVb4JGoi06iu7lveQmj6bQlbqYplrwijwTCiMMi8cxGU2veJt0yCJnwjuuBvMKfggUpOqWlsSOaWJQgHgN8%2FEvxQRIOI7KxO4PocWM1iiZLdHWpJH%2BeLKqDJ98HigJuMXwRp%2FRCXpKJ2SqFlSdnZ%2FnJ7SWDD6bMXx5i1TIxJJiQcdNlJ6Gd5Dc0OWUpN1Okek%2FzUT2sc6MeySYnbZABH0fUarIRXgAMx%2Fj63iNXA5pffBOtM95t1skpwjSCT4epEvwaH7PRLzte40A%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR7DciJPAYw) socket if the route of replacement turns out to be the one you'll have to follow, but if the center can be somehow manipulated to stay in place, that should be perfectly fine. Get a set of JIS screwdrivers for the chassis screws, it makes it a lot easier to keep the screws undamaged.
yes, use a great-quality replacement (Amphenol certainly is) the difference in price can't be enough to buy a coffee and it really will matter as you use it.
And since you're replacing it anyway, the N connector should be the default instead of SO239/PL259 "UHF" for all ham connections by now anyway, what the hell are we still using those for? Half of the connectors are out in the weather and you have to tape over it, while N is weather proof.
Awesome. That's all good to know. I'll see if I can't find a higher quality connector, rather than a cheap z Chinese piece of junk off eBay - hopefully gigaparts or dx engineering had them.
My solder sucker broke too, so i need a new one of those while I'm at it.
Amphenol makes good quality SO-239's. I've bought some from a ham seller on eBay. They're commonly available. AMPHENOL 83-876 74868 FEMALE UHF SO-239 CHASSIS ANTENNA CONNECTOR JACK 2-HOLE Ten bucks on eBay
> AMPHENOL 83-876 74868 FEMALE UHF SO-239 CHASSIS ANTENNA CONNECTOR JACK 2-HOLE Ten bucks on eBay
Is this the listing you are referencing? https://www.ebay.com/itm/402322748972
OP, agree with u/catdude142 on Amphenol, their products won't do you wrong. And unless the factory really globbed solder on that old connector, you shouldn't need a solder sucker for swapping in a replacement connector. I find [solder wick](https://www.amazon.com/s?k=solder+wick+braid) works better for drawing up and cleanly removing smaller amounts of old-work solder quickly.
Sometimes you don't need to replace the whole socket. You will need to open up the chassis and have a look. You may be able to gently press it back into place from the rear. This is a temporary fix, ideally I would replace the connection if possible. Use lots of flux with connectors and try not to hold the heat on the center pin too long when soldering, it take a bit to melt the plastic insulator in the center but it can melt.
Most common connector out there. Little time with the solder gun and you will be all set. If you are unsure how to do it hit up your most project heavy local ham.. they will get her done in like 5 minutes.
Also while your there you can replace it to the far superior BNC connector.
That may require modifying the case a little bit. N connectors are pretty much a drop in replacements.
Pop off the radio top, apply epoxy on loose part, push back in place, put cover on, wait 4 hours, resume using.
Bingo. That would be my first move. Use some quick set JB weld and you should be back on the air in 10 mins. If that fails, then solder in a new connector. Order one to have on hand.
Do you know how to remove the cover? Which screws?
Are you serious?
If you can do basic soldering it should be very easy to replace. Finding a two-hole-mounting socket is probably the hardest part as they are usually square with four-hole mounting. Take off the outer covering, unsolder the coax from the old one, remove and replace the connector and resolder it. This is a very simple job for someone with basic skills & a soldering iron.
RF Connection sells the diamond shaped 2-hole SO239s
>Finding a two-hole-mounting socket is probably the hardest part as they are usually square with four-hole mounting. Just use two holes and don't put screws in the other two. It's more than enough to hold the connector in place.
Reddit has long been a hot spot for conversation on the internet. About 57 million people visit the site every day to chat about topics as varied as makeup, video games and pointers for power washing driveways. In recent years, Reddit’s array of chats also have been a free teaching aid for companies like Google, OpenAI and Microsoft. Those companies are using Reddit’s conversations in the development of giant artificial intelligence systems that many in Silicon Valley think are on their way to becoming the tech industry’s next big thing. Now Reddit wants to be paid for it. The company said on Tuesday that it planned to begin charging companies for access to its application programming interface, or A.P.I., the method through which outside entities can download and process the social network’s vast selection of person-to-person conversations. “The Reddit corpus of data is really valuable,” Steve Huffman, founder and chief executive of Reddit, said in an interview. “But we don’t need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free.” The move is one of the first significant examples of a social network’s charging for access to the conversations it hosts for the purpose of developing A.I. systems like ChatGPT, OpenAI’s popular program. Those new A.I. systems could one day lead to big businesses, but they aren’t likely to help companies like Reddit very much. In fact, they could be used to create competitors — automated duplicates to Reddit’s conversations. Reddit is also acting as it prepares for a possible initial public offering on Wall Street this year. The company, which was founded in 2005, makes most of its money through advertising and e-commerce transactions on its platform. Reddit said it was still ironing out the details of what it would charge for A.P.I. access and would announce prices in the coming weeks. Reddit’s conversation forums have become valuable commodities as large language models, or L.L.M.s, have become an essential part of creating new A.I. technology. L.L.M.s are essentially sophisticated algorithms developed by companies like Google and OpenAI, which is a close partner of Microsoft. To the algorithms, the Reddit conversations are data, and they are among the vast pool of material being fed into the L.L.M.s. to develop them. The underlying algorithm that helped to build Bard, Google’s conversational A.I. service, is partly trained on Reddit data. OpenAI’s Chat GPT cites Reddit data as one of the sources of information it has been trained on. Other companies are also beginning to see value in the conversations and images they host. Shutterstock, the image hosting service, also sold image data to OpenAI to help create DALL-E, the A.I. program that creates vivid graphical imagery with only a text-based prompt required. Last month, Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter, said he was cracking down on the use of Twitter’s A.P.I., which thousands of companies and independent developers use to track the millions of conversations across the network. Though he did not cite L.L.M.s as a reason for the change, the new fees could go well into the tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars. To keep improving their models, artificial intelligence makers need two significant things: an enormous amount of computing power and an enormous amount of data. Some of the biggest A.I. developers have plenty of computing power but still look outside their own networks for the data needed to improve their algorithms. That has included sources like Wikipedia, millions of digitized books, academic articles and Reddit. Representatives from Google, Open AI and Microsoft did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Reddit has long had a symbiotic relationship with the search engines of companies like Google and Microsoft. The search engines “crawl” Reddit’s web pages in order to index information and make it available for search results. That crawling, or “scraping,” isn’t always welcome by every site on the internet. But Reddit has benefited by appearing higher in search results. The dynamic is different with L.L.M.s — they gobble as much data as they can to create new A.I. systems like the chatbots. Reddit believes its data is particularly valuable because it is continuously updated. That newness and relevance, Mr. Huffman said, is what large language modeling algorithms need to produce the best results. “More than any other place on the internet, Reddit is a home for authentic conversation,” Mr. Huffman said. “There’s a lot of stuff on the site that you’d only ever say in therapy, or A.A., or never at all.” Mr. Huffman said Reddit’s A.P.I. would still be free to developers who wanted to build applications that helped people use Reddit. They could use the tools to build a bot that automatically tracks whether users’ comments adhere to rules for posting, for instance. Researchers who want to study Reddit data for academic or noncommercial purposes will continue to have free access to it. Reddit also hopes to incorporate more so-called machine learning into how the site itself operates. It could be used, for instance, to identify the use of A.I.-generated text on Reddit, and add a label that notifies users that the comment came from a bot. The company also promised to improve software tools that can be used by moderators — the users who volunteer their time to keep the site’s forums operating smoothly and improve conversations between users. And third-party bots that help moderators monitor the forums will continue to be supported. But for the A.I. makers, it’s time to pay up. “Crawling Reddit, generating value and not returning any of that value to our users is something we have a problem with,” Mr. Huffman said. “It’s a good time for us to tighten things up.” “We think that’s fair,” he added. Mike Isaac is a technology correspondent and the author of “Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber,” a best-selling book on the dramatic rise and fall of the ride-hailing company. He regularly covers Facebook and Silicon Valley, and is based in San Francisco. More about Mike Isaac A version of this article appears in print on , Section B, Page 4 of the New York edition with the headline: Reddit’s Sprawling Content Is Fodder for the Likes of ChatGPT. But Reddit Wants to Be Paid.. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe
Suspect I'd not even have bothered with the filing. Four screws is overkill for those things anyhow!
A quick search shows them available on e bay https://www.ebay.com/itm/203897246041?chn=ps&var=504361223076&_trkparms=ispr%3D1&amdata=enc%3A1ErP4QA7DQ7Gkvvu3I3_rCg32&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-117182-37290-0&mkcid=2&mkscid=101&itemid=504361223076_203897246041&targetid=1584739237574&device=m&mktype=pla&googleloc=9023713&poi=&campaignid=19894961968&mkgroupid=148855406073&rlsatarget=pla-1584739237574&abcId=9307911&merchantid=102011948&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiAuYuvBhApEiwAzq_YiTB2t1F_oO9gJkWncSViA96Y0ccM4UCKoDOwR5sHM9VUxM_A5rzsrRoCkLoQAvD_BwE
Since that is the primary socket you might as well spring for a [good shite](https://www.ebay.com/itm/402322748972?itmmeta=01HR0K25RF2HVH7KX62SXHRBAJ&hash=item5dac4df62c:g:H7AAAOSwzYJfCdjH&itmprp=enc%3AAQAIAAAA4GtlhgBB4ZE62Qrg7zL%2BCP3UPfYDL%2BxVb4JGoi06iu7lveQmj6bQlbqYplrwijwTCiMMi8cxGU2veJt0yCJnwjuuBvMKfggUpOqWlsSOaWJQgHgN8%2FEvxQRIOI7KxO4PocWM1iiZLdHWpJH%2BeLKqDJ98HigJuMXwRp%2FRCXpKJ2SqFlSdnZ%2FnJ7SWDD6bMXx5i1TIxJJiQcdNlJ6Gd5Dc0OWUpN1Okek%2FzUT2sc6MeySYnbZABH0fUarIRXgAMx%2Fj63iNXA5pffBOtM95t1skpwjSCT4epEvwaH7PRLzte40A%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR7DciJPAYw) socket if the route of replacement turns out to be the one you'll have to follow, but if the center can be somehow manipulated to stay in place, that should be perfectly fine. Get a set of JIS screwdrivers for the chassis screws, it makes it a lot easier to keep the screws undamaged.
yes, use a great-quality replacement (Amphenol certainly is) the difference in price can't be enough to buy a coffee and it really will matter as you use it. And since you're replacing it anyway, the N connector should be the default instead of SO239/PL259 "UHF" for all ham connections by now anyway, what the hell are we still using those for? Half of the connectors are out in the weather and you have to tape over it, while N is weather proof.
It's a standard SO239 connector. So replace it! What is the problem?
https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1996/09/27 That said, we're all beginners at some point.
To earn your ham radio magic decoder ring you need to just automatically open up every radio the moment you buy it.
Awesome. That's all good to know. I'll see if I can't find a higher quality connector, rather than a cheap z Chinese piece of junk off eBay - hopefully gigaparts or dx engineering had them. My solder sucker broke too, so i need a new one of those while I'm at it.
You can make a 2 hole connector from a good quality Amphenol one with a grinder and 5 min or so. Good deal on DIY repair. Cheezy connector.
Amphenol makes good quality SO-239's. I've bought some from a ham seller on eBay. They're commonly available. AMPHENOL 83-876 74868 FEMALE UHF SO-239 CHASSIS ANTENNA CONNECTOR JACK 2-HOLE Ten bucks on eBay
> AMPHENOL 83-876 74868 FEMALE UHF SO-239 CHASSIS ANTENNA CONNECTOR JACK 2-HOLE Ten bucks on eBay Is this the listing you are referencing? https://www.ebay.com/itm/402322748972 OP, agree with u/catdude142 on Amphenol, their products won't do you wrong. And unless the factory really globbed solder on that old connector, you shouldn't need a solder sucker for swapping in a replacement connector. I find [solder wick](https://www.amazon.com/s?k=solder+wick+braid) works better for drawing up and cleanly removing smaller amounts of old-work solder quickly.
Replace it.
While you're in there, replace them with N-type
I got the new SO-239 connector (2-hole). Does anybody know how to remove the bottom cover to the FTDX-1200?
Sometimes you don't need to replace the whole socket. You will need to open up the chassis and have a look. You may be able to gently press it back into place from the rear. This is a temporary fix, ideally I would replace the connection if possible. Use lots of flux with connectors and try not to hold the heat on the center pin too long when soldering, it take a bit to melt the plastic insulator in the center but it can melt.
You can transmit on antenna 2. Just change the setting in the menu.
Tap and dye set for the win, just get the thread pitch correct
Radio Shack has them. All good.