I am reading through the 2003 ARRL Handbook, learning about circuit design,
characteristic curves for common emmitter configuration, load lines and such
things, just about ready to test all this exciting knowledge on a simple
amplifier stage using a 2N2222 transistor and now I can't find the set of
characteristic curves for this transistor ( I actually downloaded the spec
sheet and looked).

Where is this set of curves to be found? Is it not part of a regular spec
sheet for a transistor??

Baffled

Uwe