AF117 HFE

[ppppenguin]

While that is unusually high for a germanium device it's not impossible. Does make me wonder if there is something being fooled by the test methods or misinterpreted by the clever software. A common example of this is leaky capacitors apparently reading high on simple testers. That is simply due to them taking longer to charge due to leakage. Since the tester measures time taken to charge as a proxy for capacitance the answer is inevitably wrong.