ngSpice: single frequency FM modulated signal generation

ever wanted to see how that 2N2222 might hold up as a linear RF amplifier? here’s a handy feature of ngSpice that i found recently. i’m rather new to ngSpice and at first was somewhat frustrated by its differences from other SPICE variants. however, i’ve earned a deep appreciation for it and its integration with the gEDA suite.

V1 n1 0 sffm(2 24 10k 5 1k)
.tran 0.01ms 2ms
.plot n1

the above code generates the waveform seen above. the corresponding values in the sffm() function run something like this.