At 12:01 AM 3/15/99 -0500, you wrote:

I just tuned in, and don't read the list too often, but I can tell you from
my recent experience that 4069 & 4049 will work as linear amplifiers (when
biased) to around 1MHz, but the 'HC04 wont because it has additional stuff
on the CMOS FET pair output that ruin the bias. It will work as a
(non-linear) square wave oscillator.

You can use (TI's) SN74ACHU04's in linear amps to 200 MHz (so I've read).
The "U" stands for unbuffered (no buffers to screw up biasing). If you need
any, let me know I'm going to have plenty of spares. You can use ECL line
recievers as 20dB linear amps into the upper UHF range.

Better E-mail me any replies,

Scott