W7TI wrote:
It just happens to be grounded for convenience, because the circuitry in
the radio is grounded and making the connection between antenna and
radio is easier. Strictly speaking, we shouldn't be using the word
"grounded" here, but rather we should refer to a common connection.
Neither the antenna nor the radio has to be connected to an actual earth
ground to work.

Well actually my story is a little bit different. I've spent 1 and half hour
diging the hole and beating the pipe with the sledge hammer for another 2
hours in front of my building while listening my neighbours complaining....
all that just to finally have a good grounding.

Connected the ground to my receiver and realized that from now on my dipole
is no longer "floating". One of its ends is now directly grounded through
the BNC connection on the case.

So now i would just like to know can i disconnect one of the poles from my
dipole and use monopole? Is maybe the trick in capacity between two
poles? Is that the reason why i can't remove one pole?

Thanks in advance....
tom