John,

"john jardine" wrote in message
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Done a bog standard, single transistor Colpitts, that covers 110-220Mhz
using a cheap SMV1255-000 varicap.

What's the power consumption of the VCO? (I'm looking at breaking apart one
of those ADF4360's into a separate VCO and PLL, since the 4360's use a *lot*
of power, but apparently most of this is tied up in the VCO since you can
readily get PLLs that are only a milliamp or two such as your LMX2306...)