Path: ...!news.nobody.at!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!reader5.news.weretis.net!news.solani.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jan Panteltje Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: Favourite Test Equipment Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2024 10:15:32 GMT Message-ID: References: <9k7j0jlnbhs8qfg5m17pium0835meean83@4ax.com> <1qrjb8o.u2ipkmlx8gzsN%liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2024 10:15:32 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: solani.org; logging-data="184477"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@news.solani.org" User-Agent: NewsFleX-1.5.7.5 (Linux-5.15.32-v7l+) Cancel-Lock: sha1:oD8blPrgbxy6BoQ5rZL61JssqI0= X-Newsreader-location: NewsFleX-1.5.7.5 (c) 'LIGHTSPEED' off line news reader for the Linux platform NewsFleX homepage: http://www.panteltje.nl/panteltje/newsflex/ and ftp download ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/linux/system/news/readers/ X-User-ID: eJwFwQkBwDAIA0BLlCcscgoF/xJ2F4aDTkfAY2MvHTXB3tGAVmk9yKbaNZL62d5NyKMd88Ho5BsydE26+QNYURV/ Bytes: 2375 Lines: 21 On a sunny day (Fri, 5 Apr 2024 09:24:53 +0100) it happened liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham) wrote in <1qrjb8o.u2ipkmlx8gzsN%liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid>: >Jan Panteltje wrote: > >> Giggle Hertz oscillations are not happening in LC circuits of specific >> kind where those can happen you can figure from the parts used, no giggle >> Hz in a BC109. > >Back in the 1970s I found that a BC109 could be used as a self- >oscillating transmitter output stage at 100 Mc/s on a 1.5v supply (it >was for small animal cardiography). Most "R.F." transistors wouldn't >work under those circumstances. That is MHz, not giggle Hertz Early sixties I uses a transistor in my small FM transmitter. It was powered by a battery via a dynamic microphone. The few mV power supply variations that mike caused when any sound present were enough to make Cce Ccb variations to cause the frequency to change so much that you could hear a clock ticking in the room listening to that transmitter on the radio. I still use transistors as varicap if I need one.