ground the chassis , to a ground rod driven in the ground.
This will also take care of grounding the coax shield, if you use coax. In
the case of a long wire, the ground is a mandatory item, if you want the
antenna to work right.

"harvey" wrote in message
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hello
how do you ground the reciever?

"S-Meter" wrote in message
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| You want to ground the receiver, not the antenna. And it would help
reduce
| the noise a bit, and increase the signal strength of the received
signals.
|
| If you had a longwire antenna or if you live in thunderstorm country,
there
| are devices to help remove static from the antenna before it reaches the
| receiver, and devices for shunting lightening to the ground. But the
antenna
| should not be grounded.
|
|