you only need an rf ground if your safety ground is not working as an rf ground. one rod is fine in fact :) you are golden
On Apr 16, 2013, at 11:33 AM, Tom Brennan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I'm in a one story apartment. My window is right at the site where my antenna
> is located. The antenna is an hv8 (think its a Commet) only at about 15ft on a
> pole just above the roof line. That's all they will let me put up. Its one of
> thos all band things that covers 80m through 70cm. It essentially looks like a
> double decker ground plain except that the spokes are parallel to the ground.
>
> There's no reason that I couldn't put a second ground rod in near my antenna
> ground. I just hadn't done it because my understanding is that having the rf
> and antenna grounds that close together was undesirable.
>
> Tom
>
>
> Tom Brennan KD5VIJ, CCC-A/SLP
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