I see no real reason to even add an extra electrical ground.
You don't need lightening protection because you won't have the antenna up 
in bad weather, and it won't be higher than neighboring objects.  Not to 
mention running a wire from the radio to some grounded metal object won't 
offer much lightening protection anyway.
Your radio is already electrically grounded through the power supply.
In fact, adding a ground like this could cause more problems, and it 
certainly won't prevent anything or somehow make the station operate better 
or be safer.
In this particular situation, no additional ground wire is needed.
Perhaps if you were operating on non-commercial power, IE a battery or solar 
pannel or something, you might want to add a ground wire to help discharge 
static and so on...but that is already taken care of if you are plugging 
into a power supply that is plugged into the wall.

73
Colin, V A6BKX
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Ryan" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2012 12:41 PM
Subject: Apartment station


> Hi all:
>
> Providing our Land Couple are satisfied, I'm going to set up my station in 
> our apartment, providing I can get a portable antenna that can be left 
> outside when the weather's good and can be quickly taken down when not and 
> doesn't require drilling in the walls. LOL
> My question is regarding setting up a ground. I'm thinking of running a 
> wire from the grounding stud on the back of my rig, to a metal surface, 
> attaching via alligator clip. Would this work? What about to the electric 
> heater?
>
> TNX & 73:
> Michael DE VO1AX
>
> Sent from my iPhone