As a youngster I played with TTL DIP-ICs in my chamber and my parents next
room felt that the tv was going crazy. The pins had long wires...

- Henry

schrieb im Newsbeitrag
oups.com...
As an addition to the various mentions of common diodes as varactors
there is a well publicized British design for a frequency tripler that
will put out 2 watts at 1.3 GHz and uses five 1N914's in parallel.

I once built an HF transceiver that used CMOS logic chips for all
functions except an audio low noise amp and a voltage regulator...with
further thought those two could likely be done with CMOS logic too.