These are never good news

I received this in an email today:

I just had purchased 10 of these BF256B JFETs recently, in fact I haven't gotten them yet, hopefully they will arrive this week.  This part is one of the last RF JFETs available in the TO-92 through hole package.  The J310 was always the preferred JFET but those have not been available from distributors in maybe a decade or more.  A surface mount version of the J310 is available but a lot of folks are skittish about soldering an SOT-23 three legged part.

So time to fool with the BF256B and see if maybe there is a kit that might use them - if so, I will have to get on the stick and do a last time buy, End of Life is less than 1 year away !  Probably should expedite this before the tariff increases beyond the current 10 percent, too !

Best Regards,
Chuck, WB9KZY
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