Antenna ground strap: how long is too long?

Nice job.

What were your SWR readings?
I didn't spend too much time tuning since it was raining, but I settled at 1.1 on channel 1 and 19, 1.2 on channel 30, 1.3 on channel 33, 1.5 on channel 40. According to the guide I was reading off firestik's website, the antenna is "long", meaning I needed to screw in the top more, but it was already screwed in all the way, so IDK.

I live a little over a mile from an interstate, so flipping through the channels I caught a little bit of chatter on a few, but it was hard to interpret what people were saying (lots of numbers/codes and odd names)
 
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