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Offline alan.bainTopic starter

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RF Si transistor identification
« on: September 08, 2024, 12:12:27 pm »
I'm trying to identify the active device in a 3.6GHz DRO oscillator found in an E444X series Spectrum analyser.  There is even a write up of a very similar oscillator design in Microwave Journal
https://www.microwavejournal.com/articles/11889-high-tuning-sensitivity-dielectric-resonator-oscillator-from-optimization-of-dielectric-resonator-te-sub-01-948-sub-mode

which sadly doesn't say what the device is. It is marked 420 with a dot see photo to the left of the dielectric ring.
 

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Re: RF Si transistor identification
« Reply #1 on: September 08, 2024, 03:29:14 pm »
Could it be BFP420, or equivalent?

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Re: RF Si transistor identification
« Reply #2 on: September 09, 2024, 10:20:54 am »
Thanksl that was a useful starting point. I don't think it is right, but it led me to the Avago AT-42086 which has a specification which looks like it might work and some pictures of them (on eBay!) show the marking of 420.
 

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