Dennis, In my experience with the chokes, I found putting one at the receiver worked the best. Adding a second one at the antenna did nothing, or if it did, it added more signal from strays. Did you do a comparison using a single choke at the receiver and running the two chokes? I would be very interested in knowing the difference in signal on your locals from running one or two chokes. I did not add any extra grounding though. It is too hard to place the ground 15 feet from either end as the coax runs under the house. I installed the chokes at the imput of the R8. The two chokes hang off the backend of the receiver side by side, so all antennas go through them. I bought 4 ferritte pieces, but I have not used the extra two as I found I did not need another choke at the antenna end outside. I was happy to note that as I don't need to worry about another box getting moisture in it. But in my case the locals that were S7-S9 without the choke went to S1 or less with the choke, so a big difference. As with your experience, the antennas are tighter with the patterns. Like the other morning, off the SW EWE around 1330 UTC, I found 2PM/4KZ Australia on 531, Off the WNW EWE it was JJ/Filipino mix. Only the stronger channels like 612 4QR I found Australia on both antennas, but better on the SW EWE.
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