Topband: Multiple Beverage Grounding

[Herbert Schoenbohm]

Sure could use your advice on this.  I have 4 Beverage RX antennas, two 2 wire DXE ladder line reversible and two single wire 800 footers that all originate within 15 feet at their starting point.  Each matching unit has it own 4 foot copper ground rod. I am concerned that hooking all these ground rods together may change the performance. Would this make things more stable or distort the patterns and introduce noise etc.  I am under the belief that more grounds at the origin of thre Beverage should be better but have no way to substantiate this.  At audio, where good isolation and common grounding is the key to success,  we would avoid this practice due to the possible introduction of ground loops and hum.  Is weak sighnal RF at 1.8 Mhz any different?  Does it matter?  Any suggestions?


Thanks,

Herb Schoenbohm, KV4FZ