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
> web page http://titan.sfasu.edu/~g_brennantg/sonicpage.html