I am going to pound my ground rod tomorrow and build a ground bus to tie all the gear to then to the rod. It is a top priority for me for sure. All 4 pieces will be grounded.
I have a jenky mast built but I just have the discone for now. I want a real tower in its place so I can get up over 50 feet. We have a lot of tall trees around and a 90 foot hill to our south so I want a good bit of elevation for my antennas. I need to figure out a HF antenna at some point so I can at least receive.
I'm really reading and ingesting info as fast as possible. I want to find my niche, there are so many aspects of amateur radio and I like to try everything so I want to try focusing for once on just one area. I'm going to being doing POTA for sure as I climb and hike then I really like DX but need to learn a lot more. POTA is the most accessible for me being in the pacific northwest.