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As you may need a hint:


Work out the voltage drop in those bias resistors for the change in required base current for 1.5mA collector current according to Hfe across 80-220.


This will give you the change in emitter voltage.

Then you can work out the change in collector current. The result will be ballpark 1% change. i.e insignificant.


Then redo the sums applying a 5% tolerance on the resistors.


See how the resistors are more significant wrt changing the bias current than the Hfe? That's the sign of a good design.


You'd have more success selling people 1% tolerance bias resistors to better define the operating point compared to all this daftness about hfe :laugh:


Also note that with a common base amplifier the gain is proportional to the collector current because the collector current defines the input impedance  = 26/Ic(mA) for a simplistic model.


So you'd get a bigger swing in gain if you simply fished out 5% tolerance resistors from a resistor box and measured the gain each time you tried a different 1k ohm resistor in the emitter. Same for the other bias resistors.


If you compared worst case resistor tolerance to best you'd see a much bigger spread in collector current/amplifier gain compared to the hfe difference :)


if you don't believe any of this then look at the circuit for a Cobra 148GTL-DX and see how the RF gain control works?


It increases the emitter resistance and therefore reduces collector current and therefore reduces the amplifier gain.