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Steve Kavanagh wrote: A year or so ago I was working on a microwave local oscillator (at about 2.5 GHz) multiplied up from a crystal oscillator near 40 MHz. The output was found to jump in frequency by tens or hundreds of Hz many times as the LO chain was warming up. I was able to reduce this jumping by replacing all the dipped silver mica capacitors in the crystal oscillator stage with NP0 ceramics. #snip# Has anyone else experienced this behaviour ? Not personally, but I believe I've seen it mentioned in one of Doug DeMaw W1FB's books on QRP transceiver design. -- Dave Platt AE6EO Hosting the Jade Warrior home page: http://www.radagast.org/jade-warrior I do _not_ wish to receive unsolicited commercial email, and I will boycott any company which has the gall to send me such ads! |
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