The other clay foot of the discussion is that for placement before OR
after the detector, ALL ratios are post-hoc determinations (in other
words, design with variable components fully expecting you WILL be
wrong). Further, ALL descriptions to this point have been of normalized
levels.

Hi Richard, I haven't been able to keep up with this like I wished because of
that pesky Hurricane. If you put the detector circuit before the voltage
divider, then the resistors see DC which they are a lot happier with. The
detector diode will have to be 700VDC PRV rating, and the filter cap. will have
to be sized properly.
I guess the diode will have some frequency dependent properties, but as long
as it still acts like a diode, and the forward bias drop is around .6V it ought
to work. This looks like good alternative to frequency dependent resistors.
What say you?


73 Gary N4AST