Twin tee oscillator

A twin-tee audio oscillator is a very useful item to have around the shack. Looking around the net for suitable circuit values yesterday I came across this page by G0XAN http://homepage.ntlworld.com/g0xan/twin-t.htm

I shall be using one this week with my CW keyer to send slow CW (QRSS) on 1.2kHz and 8.97kHz. For very slow CW I'll need a much more stable oscillator probably a crystal and digital divider, although many on the "Dreamers Band" are using a DDS source.

Designing crystal oscillators

If you want a range "sure fire" crystal oscillator designs to suit fundamental and various overtone modes you should check out the "Oscillators" page on the QuartSLab website. This has details of circuit values and configurations that will really work. Most of these designs are ones I recognise from my days at Pye/Philips PMR, so I know they are reliable and well tried.

Another oscillator calculator

Harry Lythall SM0VPO has a most interesting site full of ideas. Among the useful stuff is an oscillator calculator which allows you to work out values of L and C to make an oscillator that Harry claims always works. The circuit produces about 20mW.

This is the link http://web.telia.com/~u85920178/blocks/osc7m00.htm

Lambda diode circuits

Mike Rainey AA1TJ has some good tunnel diode ideas on his pages but these devices are hard to find these days. Instead one can create a negative resistance device called a Lambda diode with a couple of FETs or an FET and a transistor. See for example the pages of Ramon Vargas Patron at http://www.zen22142.zen.co.uk/Theory/neg_resistance/negres.htm where he has examples of oscillators and regenerative receivers using Lambda diodes.