The oscillator now works nicely. Early attempts, it turned out, were running on totally the wrong frequency, that's now fixed (with a different circuit) and the waveform looks nice and puts about 1V peak to peak into 50 ohms which I think is 2.5mW.
![oscillator.jpg](http://lh4.ggpht.com/peterbmarks/SNQwdBxDPYI/AAAAAAAAAvs/JcYrLwUnM5Y/oscillator.jpg?imgmax=800)
The next step is to raise this level up to a few watts so that I can be heard at least by VK2BVS who lives near by.
In a burst of foolish enthusiasm, I added a gain stage followed by a class C driver and an IRF510 final, rather messy but the box will be good for the next iteration.
![amplifier.jpg](http://lh3.ggpht.com/peterbmarks/SNQxspnY6BI/AAAAAAAAAvw/khjxOufBeso/amplifier.jpg?imgmax=800)
Alas the final oscillates magnificently, presumably my construction is far too spread out. I'm not deterred by this and will have another go this time using a design from Drew Diamond rather than random circuit snippets found on the internet.
I feel I'm making real progress, despite no outright success, my debugging skills are improving with experience.
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