[Boatanchors] Receiver Antenna Input Question

[Carl]

What was the purpose of snipping my reply and then acting as if the 
ARC-5 suggestion was your own?

Here is the part you snipped:

A neon will also bleed off lightning charge buildup from a nearby strike
or cloud to cloud discharges. With a Beverage antenna its not even
local, Ive been bit by a strike several miles away.

ARC-5 receivers had a NE2 or similar which was effective against the
fairly low power of the matching TX.

Carl
KM1H

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "J Forster" <jfor at quik.com>
To: "Carl" <km1h at jeremy.mv.com>
Cc: <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, March 01, 2009 9:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Receiver Antenna Input Question


> BTW, you might want to look at some vintage designs, like an ARC-5 Rx. 
> I
> think you need a resistor or two. Also, you want to use a recently 
> made
> NE-2. The radioactive material in them decays and they get harder to 
> start.
>
> -John
>
> =============
>
> Carl wrote:
>
>> By the time a NE2 fired at 90V the front end coils would be fried
>> especially on the lower bands. The Navy used a neon bulb to protect
>> front ends from TX antennas that were often only 50' away but it was
>> biased so it fired at a much lower voltage. It was also much more 
>> robust
>> than a NE2. [snip]
>