"Mike Silva" wrote in message
om...
Caution: this may be the most unimportant post you read today (or this
month, or this year, or...)

Anyway, I haven't been in the market for QRP-level transistors for a
long time, having laid in a lifetime's supply years ago, but today
just for fun I searched for some of the usual suspects from the past
(2N3553, 2N3866, 2N4427, MRF237, 2N5109, 2SC799, etc) on Ebay and
found almost nothing to be had. This greatly surprised me, as I was
expecting to find all of my old friends readily available. So, are
the "old standards" really hard to find now, or are they still readily
available (outside of Ebay), or what???

Those devices don't seem to be manufactured any more. I checked a couple of
manufacturers' web sites a couple of weeks ago and couldn't find them. One
or two suppliers here in the UK still stock them, but they are quite
expensive.

Leon
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Leon Heller, G1HSM

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