The gate drive is too low. I remember it being much much higher.
I suspect one of the trifilar toroids has a short and this will show up if you move them. I personally saw this issue
in a defective board Farhan gave me. I just moved the leads till the short went away and blobbed some hot glue to
keep the wires apart.
Also see that your audio drive is at least 150mv p-p or more.
Raj
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On a scope, p-p voltage at the gate of Q15 with a 1000hz tone: 40mv with no RF out and 200mv after Q13 replacement
Q13 is a BC849 and Mouser has them for 0.139 each (sku 833-BC849B-TP)
73,
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