I have the older version of the L222-28HP by Down East Microwave. I use it it with an old transverter interface that I modified so that the transverter automatically gets switched in when I change the band on the IC-7300 to 10m.
TNC (threaded nut connector) is about the same dimensions as BNC (bayonet nut connector). N connectors are the same thread size as UHF (universal high frequency), but the interior are the same as BNC/TNC.
So, it is possible to remove the nut from a BNC and plug it into an N.
Thinking the Ant/TX port is a N-connector as TNC are similar diameter as BNC, but threaded instead of twist-lock. Looks super-nice! Have fun on on 222!
The 28-point peace plan that the United States and Russia want to impose on Ukraine and Europe is misnamed. It is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
Although some writers consider the gap in the halo antenna's loop to distinguish it from a small loop antenna – since there is no DC connection between the two ends – that distinction is lost at RF: The close-bent high-voltage ends are connected capacitively, with a RF electrical connection completed through displacement current. Despite the abrupt reversal in voltage across the gap, the RF current bridging the gap is continuous (although possibly momentarily zero).
The gap in the halo is electrically equivalent to the tuning capacitor on a small loop, although its stray capacitance is not nearly as large as needed for a tuned loop: Capacitance is not needed since the halo antenna is already resonant, but since some small capacitive coupling is present anyway, the arms of the dipole are trimmed back from 97% of a quarter-wave each to restore resonance. Moreover, the halo ends are often pressed even closer together, to increase their mutual capacitance and the ends then cut even shorter to compensate, in order to make the radiation pattern even more nearly omnidirectional, and to produce even less wasteful vertical radiation (for a horizontally mounted halo).
This year, we’ve already seen sizeable leaks of NVIDIA source code, and a release of open-source drivers for NVIDIA Tegra. It seems NVIDIA decided to amp it up, and just released open-source …
For those of you who haven’t spent time in North America around this time of year, you may be unaware of two things: one, the obligatory non-stop loop of “All I Want For Christmas Is Yo…
NJ GOP congressman's former staffer charged in staged MAGA attack
There is precedent for staged incidents that are supposed to appear politically-motivated.
Back in 2008, a volunteer for John McCain’s presidential campaign named Ashley Todd said that she’d been robbed, pinned to the ground and had a backwards letter “B” carved into her face. She lied and said her attacker was a Black man who noticed a McCain sticker on her car, assaulted her and said "you are going to be a Barack supporter.” Todd later admitted she’d completely fabricated the whole thing.
In 2015, a veteran in Texas named Scott Lattin reported his truck had been vandalized with “Black Lives Matter” graffiti in retaliation for the pro-police messages he had displayed. Police discovered Lattin had actually done the defacing themselves, potentially for insurance money. His wife and son were also implicated.
In 2021, Congresswoman Nancy Mace (R-SC) reported her home had been vandalized by “Antifa vandals.” There was graffiti reading “All politicians are bastards” and an “A” with a circle around it—an anarchist symbol, not an antifascist one. There was speculation at the time that Mace may have done it herself, though it hasn’t been proven one way or another.
Greene’s motivations for the staged attack remain unclear and she hasn’t made any public statements since being charged. According to her LinkedIn page, she’s a student at Rutgers Law School. Her former boss Van Drew is probably best-known for being elected as a Democrat but switching to the Republican party in 2020 after objecting to Trump’s impeachment.
In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder, there’s been a concerted effort by conservatives to paint liberals and progressives as supportive of political violence—despite little evidence. Seeing a conservative fabricate an attack like this—and mutilating her own body in service of the plan—suggests a different reality.
::waves in Reagan-era GenX:: (and remembers that Biden is a big part of the reason that those unemployed degree-holders will never not have that ever-expanding student loan albatross around their necks)
learn a trade and join a union, kids
Americans With Four-Year Degrees Now Comprise a Record 25% of Unemployed Workers
There were more than 1.9 million Americans aged 25 and over with at least a bachelor’s degree who were unemployed in September — one in four of the total number of unemployed. Before 2025, the ratio never reached such a high in data going back to 1992. Younger, recent college grads have also been struggling to find work.
Rising unemployment among the college-educated “should further fuel AI-related job loss fears,” Michael Feroli, the chief US economist at JPMorgan Chase & Co., said Thursday in a note following the release.
The milestone comes amid a raft of high-profile layoff announcements from major corporations including Amazon.com, Target Corp. and Starbucks Corp. A recent report by the outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas indicated job-cut announcements last month were the highest for any October in more than 20 years, fueled by plans to replace positions with artificial intelligence.
Verizon Communications Inc. on Thursday became the latest to announce wide-ranging cuts, saying it would let go of more than 13,000 employees in a bid to shrink its non-union workforce by as much as 20%.
“For the new graduates from college, they they did get hit by a bit of a perfect storm,” Federal Reserve Bank of New York President John Williams said Friday. Normally, “college graduates are being swept into the labor market as they get out of college, and that has not happened as much this year,” he said in answering questions after a speech in Santiago, Chile.
NPR's Leila Fadel asks Democratic Congressman and former Army Ranger Jason Crow for his response to President Trump after Crow participated in a video urging U.S. troops to refuse illegal orders.
House lawmakers have collected enough signatures to force a vote on a bill that would nullify President Trump's executive order terminating collective bargaining rights for most federal workers.
When Stranger Things premiered in 2016, it was a cultural force. Foreign DJs gushed over the lush 80s soundtrack, fashionistas loved the clothing, and the world became obsessed with the idea of usi…
..."Currently, the state has a six-week abortion ban, signed into law in May 2023, with limited exceptions for rape and incest up to 12 weeks, for fetal anomalies and to save the life of the pregnant person.
However, S.323, also called the "Unborn Child Protection Action," which is currently being debated in a state subcommittee, would repeal the rape, incest and fetal anomalies exceptions as well as make abortion a felony comparable to "the homicide of a person born alive," which, if it clears a series of legislative hurdles, could send people who have an abortion to prison for up to 30 years.
If the bill clears the committee, there will be a few other legislative steps before it's debated during the state legislature's regular session. ... advocates are continuing to put pressure on lawmakers by having constituents call up their representatives, sharing personal stories of people who have struggled to get abortion care in harrowing situations and legal reasonings behind why some consider the bill unconstitutional. ... "We have seen time and time again, when very restrictive legislation sees the light of day, and if it potentially has a chance of moving through the legislature and getting signed and getting enacted, other hostile states very often follow suit," she said. "Once we see a bill get enacted, we see that kind of momentum get pushed forward. It really opens the door for other states to do something similar." ... Co-sponsors of the bill, including state Sens. Richard Cash, Billy Garrett and Rex Rice,"...
This week Jonathan chats with Kevin, Colin, and Curtis about Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead! It’s a rogue-like post-apocalyptic survival game that you can play in the terminal, over SSH if you re…
Neil E. Hodges
in reply to Neil E. Hodges • •I wanted this because my FT-991A does 2m and 70cm, but not 1.25m.
The same merchant also has models for outputting 2m, 70cm, 33cm, and 23cm. 👀
Patrick W1PAC reshared this.
Alex KR1ST/PA1ST
in reply to Neil E. Hodges • • •Very nice!!
I have the older version of the L222-28HP by Down East Microwave. I use it it with an old transverter interface that I modified so that the transverter automatically gets switched in when I change the band on the IC-7300 to 10m.
Q5 makes some really nice gear!
Neil E. Hodges likes this.
Man aging with snow
in reply to Neil E. Hodges • • •that's not a TNC; that's an N connector.
TNC (threaded nut connector) is about the same dimensions as
BNC (bayonet nut connector). N connectors are the same thread size as UHF (universal high frequency), but the interior are the same as BNC/TNC.
So, it is possible to remove the nut from a BNC and plug it into an N.
Neil E. Hodges likes this.
Neil E. Hodges
in reply to Man aging with snow • •Aladár Mézga
in reply to Neil E. Hodges • • •Neil E. Hodges
in reply to Aladár Mézga • •Gary @N8DMT
in reply to Neil E. Hodges • • •Neil E. Hodges likes this.