Grounding is not the solution excepting for elementary thinking for the novice engineer or radio operator.

I suspect we’ve confused grounding, matching and coupling, all different phases of a complete antenna system…….

If you couple ground into every antenna system you will get common mode noise 87% of the time swamping any weak signal input across the EM spectrum…

This is a topic deserving more time and dissection at the theoretical level, and by spectrum and type of antenna sections…not in a quick e-mail or commentary from a casual user or applications engineer.

Good luck but I’ll use grounded connections as needed and not as a rule.

Joe Yuna
EE LCDR/USN ret.