I don't know what sort of problems you are having, and on which bands.  Nor 
do I know if your apartment is near ground level, two stories up, or what. 
The shortest path to a ground rod is the best, and a short path to two of 
them a few feet apart might be even better.  If you could put your ground in 
next to the building, below your window, this would give you the shortest 
run.  If for some reason you need to run a wire out into the yard, whether 
it connects to a ground rod or not, it won't matter very much whether it is 
insulated.
What sort of antenna are you trying to feed, and how high is it?  Inquiring 
minds want to know.
73 -- W3IUU
-----Original Message----- 
From: Tom Brennan
Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 12:15 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: mfj 931

Thanks, Steve.  I'll give this a try but since I tend to be all over the 
bands
I'll just have to see.

My rfi problem is that where I'm living I can have an antenna ground but 
can't
run a second ground far enough away from the antenna ground to avoid 
problems.
Actually I could but the apartment managers would require that the ground 
wire
be at least two incnes in the ground from my window all the way out the 17 
feet
or so to the ground rod.

Tom


Tom Brennan  KD5VIJ, CCC-A/SLP
web page http://titan.sfasu.edu/~g_brennantg/sonicpage.html