Hopefully, without taking the thread off topic, can anyone point me at a good source of information about the design of analogue (and maybe digital) RF oscillators? Thinking back to the days when PW, SWM and RadCom were primary sources of information for radio hams, they would clearly identify the need for frequency stability, and discuss how that was achieved, but I don't recall there being very many references to any other parameters. This thread has focussed on the issue of noise, and this and possibly other parameters presumably relate to a better level of understanding than was commonly around in the past? Please keep this at the "ham radio" level complexity
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