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Experimenting with Colpitts Oscillators
« on: April 05, 2014, 0346 UTC »
Just posted a write up on my site that some may be interested in:

Experimenting with Colpitts Oscillators
http://makerf.com/posts/experimenting_with_colpitts_oscillators

For those of you who don't know, the Colpitts oscillator is a common RF oscillator circuit.  Useful for when you don't have a crystal in the frequency range you want to use.  The colpitts can be scaled for pretty much any frequency range based on the L and C values in the tank circuit.
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