Doug DeMaw taught us that a key contributor to analog oscillator stability is the use of NP0 capacitors. As part of my effort to maintain the ability to produce analog, discrete component, coal-and-cap, chip-free oscillators, I recently went out onto the internet in search of an assortment of NP0 capacitors. Nightfire Electronics had just what I needed. I took their assortment and put it in a parts box for easy access.
An Unintended Post-Mortem
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Many of us wind up in a similar situation, I'm sure: we impulse buy at
hamfests—great plans for some big old currently non-working piece of
gear—and then...
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