Ralph is spot on. Get your ohmmeter out and discover how your connections are connected to either one another or to ground.
I have 2 earth ground rods. The first is purely the Puritan unit green ground wire through the Groundmaster device.
The second ground rod takes all my "signal grounds" out via a DIY ground box. But note that the signals are in many cases connected to the power ground through the chassis. A potential ground loop situation. So I ran a separate ground rod to make it a longer path, so to speak. I only use 12 ga "Romex" for each rod wire. About 20 feet for each to get me to Mother earth.
I’ll try to attach some photos of my DIY box. I braid 18 or 20 ga wire for my cables from components to the box to make it look sexier and use alligator clips or banana jacks.
I am only 20% successful posting pics here.