I remove the blutak at the center after your remark and after less than hour experiment.... i try to attach the antenna with blutak because i try to suspend vertically on a wall the small usb generator.... i I never put blutak in the first bigger generator....In the second one I remove it afteryour remark and make the antenna stand on a piece of shungite at the center but not glued on it like with my first generator and it is better...Your remark about shorting the antenna make sense to me...
By the way the specific kind of stone you place near the generator under it or at the center change the sound... It is not the same effect if the stone is an herkimer, agate, shungite or tourmaline... For the basis of my antenna the shungite is better and it is the shungite I try in my first attempt...