"Dave" wrote in message
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The antenna does indeed seem to be working great, and the radio is not
operating too shabily either as it is only the "background noise" I am
trying to reduce. I hooked a 100 mH RF choke up to it with good results,
and am planning on adding another one or two similar devices in an effort
to
cut down on higher frequency interference. Question: how would I ground
this antenna?

Uh, you don't ground the antenna. You ground ground. :-) The ground is like
a "return" path for the current induced in the antenna by the radio wave.

I have a grounding rod right outside the window, but don't
know what to hook it too. The negative battery terminal?

Probably. Any handy chassis ground will be fine.

This radio does
have an external antenna input, but that has a plastic ring around the
outside. Open to suggestions.

The radio might be grounded through the power cord, if it's a 3-prong.
Otherwise, just a wire from the radio's chassis to the ground rod, or
even to one of the mounting screws of a grounded outlet.

And thanks for the input RE purchasing a
new/used tuner.

dave

As you seem to have mentioned, you have lots & lots of signal
strenth, so you actually might want to make your antenna even _less_
sensitive. What it sounds like you're looking for is selectivity,
and you do that with tuned circuits. Or you did back when I was
learning this stuff. ;-)

Hope This Helps!
Rich