[Antennas] A lot of good info...Fat rugged dipole?

[KD7JYK DM09]

"I would worry about the diode at the junction though.  First, one
sensitive enough to detect raw rf would be liable to fail due to nearby
lightning"

A chance of that, we lost a remote weather station due to a nearby strike
this afternoon.

"Second it is likely it could cause harmonics of the nearby transmitters...
that could cause mixing products and other junk in the immediate area."

Also a possibility I didn't think of.  I was thinking of an inductor at the
operating frequency, that could shunt out harmonics.  312 MHz is the center
of the monitoring range, I could easily slide up to 315 MHz (324 is the
upper limit) where there is no shortage of postage-stamp size receivers.  I
can also add a "SAW", surface acoustic wave- resonator to act as a band-pass
filter with either the diode detector design or the heterodyne receiver
design if I move to 315.  If I go the active receiver route, I'd have to
spend a bit more time characterizing it to rule out any added noise.  Then
again, if there's garbage in the area, I'd have the same problem with the
diode converting everything which I'd have to rule out as well!

Good info, thanks!

Kurt