Hi everyone! I just recently go back into the hobby of electronics recently and have refreshed myself with the basic principles of components and circuits. I have a good understanding of the basic 'law's' and am once again stuck where I was 10 years ago. Oscillator circuits. All I want is a simple, the less components the better, circuit with one transistor, one coil, one capacitor that is capable of operating in the .5 to 1Mghz range. The output does not have to be a sinusoidal, square, or sawtooth. I am not looking for perfection here. I just want a circuit that I can 'see' working so I can understand how and why it work's. I know it is not impossible because I have made, by accident, a circuit that made interference on channel 8(VHF) but cannot remember how I did it. I know I used a 470uF Electrolytic capacitor, one npn transistor, and I am guessing for the coil I had a voltage meter in the circuit. Don't ask how it was hooked up because I can't remember. I wish to use DC voltage as well (3-9) volts and don't care if it's a feedback, hartley or whatever oscillator. Though I wish to stay away from that center-tapped coil kind. Bear with me in my ignorance but if I don't ask I won't learn. Thank you everyone.