Many thanks for all the advice. I was looking at this all wrong after
reading your posts. The static charge will take the easiest path to
GROUND, so there's now reason why it would bleed through the reciever.


I've done a fair amount of research on this lately. The Gizmoe box
looks interesting, and most of the circuits are fairly similar. I
agree that the neon light probably isn't very effective unless the
bleed resister fails. By the time it fires, though, it's probably too
late.

What I would like to do is build the circuit in an aluminum project
enclosure. The circuit will be similar to most of the ones you folks
talked about. One circuit I found interesting is in an excellent
article: ttp://www.qsl.net/wd8das/2010.html The problem is that I
cannot read the component values because the image is all blurry. Can
anyone tell me what they are? I would like to add the .05 uF cap
inline with the center wiper of the pot. The only thing I'm not sure
about is how all this will affect my mfg reciever antenna tuner. Will
the resistance and capacitance cause problems with the tuner?

Rather than use any type of switch, I'll simply unplug the antenna and
place it outside the window it runs through when I'm not using it. A
value of 10k for the bleed resistor sounds pretty low. I've heard
people talk of values as high as 100k or even 1meg!

Thanks again to everyone. I feel like my protector box is honing in
nicely and should have it put together in another day or two. If
someone can tell me what the component values are in the WD8DAS
schematic, I would really appreciate it.