Hi Vic, > So the voltage produced by the receiving antennas is relatively low. I > agree that it wouldn't work with a resonant antenna.
On my Beverage antennas (which are low gain) the accumulation of AM BC signals, SW BC signals, and so on at night is enough to light the filament of a 12 volt subminature lamp a dull reddish glow!! Really freaky to watch the filament brightness QSB up at night. > But couldn't you just put several diodes in series, like this: > > --+-->|------>|---+-- > |--|<------|<---| > if you want a higher clipping level? You could, but I probably would not do that for several reasons (mostly related to IM performance and clamping harness). A much better solution is to use a zener-biased shunt clamp with fast diodes and a low current fuse made from a small low voltage lamp, but a voltage source is required to bias the zener. ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
