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squarefoottoday at 1:05 PM3 repliesview on HN

Dual gate mosfets were a godsend when building RF/IF mixers or preamps. Luckily I have a small stash as they're almost unobtanium and costly these days, but for most uses such as mixers and preamps they can be swapped with a pair or normal jfets in a cascode configuration like this one: https://i.stack.imgur.com/6Nyhg.gif


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analog31today at 4:26 PM

Coincidentally, there were vacuum tubes with dual grids for mixer and AGC applications.

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cbdevidaltoday at 1:14 PM

Today I learned you can build an entire freaking CPU out of 555s lol

https://hackaday.com/2011/08/05/building-a-computer-out-of-5...

jacquesmtoday at 1:15 PM

> Dual gate mosfets were a godsend when building RF/IF mixers or preamps.

exactly :)

BF901 FTW.