Hi
     You may be right about the RFI. However, my personal experience is that
the built in antenna tuner is able to do much better with the rig grounded.
I guess I would see if there was any way to get a connection to a cold water
pipe first. Maybe the gentleman with the apartment is blessed with copper
plumbing. That would probably be ideal.

God bless,
Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Colin McDonald
Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2012 3:20 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Apartment station

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