[ARC5] JFET in ARC-5 TX oscillator socket

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Lord, I don't remember.  I was either a Senior or a first-year Grad Student 
at the time.  Maybe 3N128?  That's an IGFET, isn't it.  They were brand new 
at the time.  I designed the circuits and wrote an IEEE student paper about 
it but never actually butchered the SP-110-LX they were to go into.

In a message dated 7/8/2009 6:47:27 PM Central Daylight Time, 
mstangelo at comcast.net writes: 
> I realized the tongue-and-cheek remark but you brought back memories of 
> my early parts scrounging days. FET's were relatively new on the hobbiest 
> market and I was lucky to find them surplus.
> 
> Anyway , I found my old catalogues. Barry's "Green Sheet" has 1625 at $3 
> each and 1626 for $1.40. G&G does not have the 1626 but has the more common 
> 1625 at 50 cents each. He also has 6V6G's for 75 cents each.
> 
> The only commercial JFET I know of in the $15 range are Crystolonics JFETS 
> used in Active anbd Broadband amps.  JFETS are mostly small signal devices 
> these days and are inexpensive. The power MOSFET's are the expensive one 
> these days. Which JFET did you buy?
> 
> Mike N2MS

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