On Semi recently introduced a handful of new JFETs, even; they're very slightly better than the esteemed BF862.
If you can't handle SOT-23 and such, man, Idunno. You're screwing yourself over if you let yourself think that. I find SMT better for everything except breadboarding -- and the solderless breadboard isn't of much use in applications like this (RF amps and such, up to 50MHz), so you're surely not losing much?
And if you still need to breadboard, breakout boards are easily made -- I have a couple 2N7002 and BSS84 floating around, that are mounted on hunks of FR-4, carved up for the connections, with pigtails soldered on for breadboarding. Ugly but it works.
Tim
Interesting, have you any part numbers for the new ones?
Heh, I'm definitely not scared of SMT, I love how cheap I can find SMD versions of chips like the NE602, AD8307 etc.
The main reason for an adapter board was just to make it simpler to throw one into a circuit that's already together without having to do too much alteration and of course I can make 'dual gate' modules (though, I've also got a bag of BF981 'dots') but I also have to admit I prefer a TO-92 (or non SMT), I don't really know why other than it 'feels' nicer which is a ridiculous reason, especially as I know how much more RF friendly SMD is.
(An aside, before the internet I 'invented' manhattan and ugly construction techniques all by myself, of course *many* other constructors must have been doing it for many years already but I'd never seen it done, indeed the guys at the local electronics shops were impressed with how literal the technique was, one commented 'It's like you've soldered the circuit diagram to a board')