'fet as resistor' for cartridge loading?

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Problems
1) calibration - the relationship between Vgs and Rds is very variable between samples and is temperature dependent
2) relatively noisy - Vgs noise becomes resistance variation
3) its another rf detector to pick up your gsm phone

The linearity is probably good enough at MC output levels
 
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