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From: Cursitor Doom <cd999666@notformail.com>
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Subject: Re: Yttrium iron garnet
Date: Wed, 29 May 2024 17:12:21 -0000 (UTC)
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On Wed, 29 May 2024 13:52:34 +1000, Bill Sloman wrote:

> Yttrium iron garnet tuned oscillators were around back then, but their
> 2GHz to 8GHz range was too high for me to count with the integrated
> circuits around then - we had to go the Gigabit Logic's GaAs parts to
> get to 800MHz, and that became the unique selling point of the system.

YIG oscillators were quite the thing back in the day, but I'm guessing 
they've been completely superseded by now to get to ever higher 
frequencies. Seems we've gone from -

R/C to L/C to Xtal to YIG since about 1900. Did I miss any development(s) 
out pre-YIG?