If you are installing 1n4148's across the antenna and ground you are just limiting the peaks, coming in on the antenna, to approx. .560 volts plus and minus.? If you use a germanium diode set you will limit the signals to .3 volts But you may get into trouble with strong signals limiting at this small voltage deviation causing distortion when the signal is clipping. Just a guess have not tested.?
On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 10:58 PM, Lawrence Galea
<9h1avlaw@...> wrote:
That's the term we have been using for ages.
It means that one diode is placed with the cathode connected to one side of the circuit and the other connected the other way round so that they clip both sides of an AC voltage. (A DC voltage will also be clipped by the forward biased diode)
Taking the input of a receiver, one diode would have its cathode connected to the antenna input with the anode connected to earth. The other diode would have its anode connected to the antenna input and its cathode connected to earth.
Guess that different terms are used in different parts of the world.
Regards.
