Frank Gilliland wrote:

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Must be the latitude. For the sake of this discussion, I put whipped up a
flip-flop that can do 240 MHz using 2N4401's. It took me about half an hour. You
don't need to saturate those puppies, you just need a little gain.


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OK Frank, I'm interested to see a picture and a schematic of your circuit. Do
you have web pages like Harry's?

I can't help but think that you have been more than a little rough on Harry,
someone who obviously does "homebrew" his stuff. I wish I had the time
patience and ability to construct more stuff that actually worked myself ;-).
Perhaps I'm lazy but I'll choose a suitable IC over a descrete solution 9
times out of ten. I'm not sure why you have a downer on using IC's.

I sympathise with Harry's difficulty in getting hold of parts in Sweden as it
is getting difficult to find (hobbiest) RF parts in the UK.

The hobby of radio and electronics construction is dying in the UK, so we
should be happy if some people build only kits, otherwise the kit suppliers
will go out of business too.

regards...

--Gary