Thread: Low Noise VFO
View Single Post
  #7   Report Post  
Old January 27th 07, 09:23 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.homebrew
[email protected] LenAnderson@ieee.org is offline
external usenet poster
 
First recorded activity by RadioBanter: Aug 2006
Posts: 1,027
Default Low Noise VFO



On Jan 17, 5:23�pm, "llobdelljr" wrote:
I was surfing the net and found a reference to an unusual low phase
noise LC VFO that uses two inductors. *Unfortunately it seems I forgot
to bookmark the site. *Can anyone help?

Thanks,
Larry Lobdell Jr.


This may not be what you are looking for but it is a
clever way to make a Hartley oscillator using two
inductors without any coupling between them:

"Hartley oscillator requires no coupled inductors,"
by Jim McLucas, EDN Design Ideas, issue of
26 October 2006. The example is an 18 MHz
oscillator using dual-gate CMOS FETS but the
principle of transforming coupled inductors to
two individual inductors would be sound for any
active device.

It is available at Design Ideas Archive at
www.ednmag.com.