Do you get to put the pole in the ground?  Maybe you could incorporate a rod 
there so that no one would know or see it.  Then maybe you could put your 9 
foot rod near the building.
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From: "Tom Brennan" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2012 4:44 PM
Subject: grounding question


> I'm living in an apartment where they've agreed to let me put up an 
> antenna on a
> 14ft pole but they only want me to have a single grounding point for my 
> system.
> I have a 9ft ground rod but I need both an rf ground to the radio itself 
> and a
> ground for my lightning arrester on the antenna.  Is there any way to 
> ground
> these both to a single ground rod?
>
> Tom
>
>
> Tom Brennan  KD5VIJ, CCC-A/SLP
> web page http://titan.sfasu.edu/~g_brennantg/sonicpage.html