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SmartDraw was giving me problems so I used MS Paint to generate the entire instructional :-) the ion pump serves a second purpose... Murray put his antenna 30' above the ground and then was 50' from there... That's 80' .. The initial 30' was just to cause a bias antenna side (which is what the ion tube achieves without the 30' ground side... Later Murray also included an ion tube)... Technically the circuit can work with a single diode antenna side... As long as the frequency of the antenna is correct... But under rectification... We'd only receive a halfwave in that case, thus the use of a full bridge in our circuit :-) (plus straight antennas of MHz range would be quite long)
You'll notice when you hit a right or really close frequency due to the fact if you use low voltage (under 1KV+) components.. You'll see an arc and suddenly the circuit will stop working (you blew it) :-)..although bad.. Is good because you almost have it!
Have noticed glass rupturing off the germaniums a few times... And the circuit still functions.. (diode was still in contact minus the casing)
Groundside capacitors have ruptured a few times.. (have resorted to using higher capacity voltage ratings (Low loss).
Trying to make a replica with all homemade components :-) so far so good.. Tuning homemade capacitors is a pain!
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SmartDraw was giving me problems so I used MS Paint to generate the entire instructional :-) the ion pump serves a second purpose... Murray put his antenna 30' above the ground and then was 50' from there... That's 80' .. The initial 30' was just to cause a bias antenna side (which is what the ion tube achieves without the 30' ground side... Later Murray also included an ion tube)... Technically the circuit can work with a single diode antenna side... As long as the frequency of the antenna is correct... But under rectification... We'd only receive a halfwave in that case, thus the use of a full bridge in our circuit :-) (plus straight antennas of MHz range would be quite long)
You'll notice when you hit a right or really close frequency due to the fact if you use low voltage (under 1KV+) components.. You'll see an arc and suddenly the circuit will stop working (you blew it) :-)..although bad.. Is good because you almost have it!
Have noticed glass rupturing off the germaniums a few times... And the circuit still functions.. (diode was still in contact minus the casing)
Groundside capacitors have ruptured a few times.. (have resorted to using higher capacity voltage ratings (Low loss).
Trying to make a replica with all homemade components :-) so far so good.. Tuning homemade capacitors is a pain!
The frequencies are going to be VERY helpful in getting this working, one of my first bottles was not far off that. I'll order the remaining parts today and hopefully have this working by the end of the week. 
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