UHF oscillator

Step 5 What is it good for?

You see three people walking along the street (probably to a wedding). You stop one of them.

You pull out this little baby from your pocket.

"Look at this thing! It is an Ultra High Frequency Oscillator".

"A What? " He asks, nervously glancing ahead at the lucky two who managed to get away.

"You know, it generates a signal which alternates in polarity more than a few hundred million times per second!"

This information, unfortunately, does not seem to impress that unfortunate wedding guest much. You get the same sort of treatment the ancient mariner must have gotten, when wandering around with his tale of the dead albatross.

OK. What is this thing good for, exactly?

My intention in building it was to get a signal source to sort my collection of ancient and modern transistors to two piles - one pile of devices usable at high frequency and the other, not.

What is the frequency of oscillation? What is the power output?

I do not know, but there are means to find out, and when I do, I shall let you all know.

Meanwhile, "Eagle" is said to be of great help in designing circuits. I have put him on the desktop. Doesn't he look fierce?