I didn't bother with a ground. really if you want one, the only thing you 
can do is counter poises but if you're running a dipole, you should be able 
to get away with nothing generally, I know plenty who do it myself included. 
As for getting the feed line in, I have one of the quick silver products 
window feed through panels and everything runs through a window, when I move 
out of here, there won't be any sign it was ever here. I'm even thinking 
when I finally have the money to buy a house of my own, I'll probably use 
some variation of this panel there though more permanently installed. That's 
how I do it though, I have the one with 4 connectors on it, I swapped one 
out of an N connector for 900 MHz and for now have 3 antennas going through 
it, if I can get another up down the road I will but for now, this setup 
works fine and I'm on pretty well everywhere from 75=900 MHz.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Ryan" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 9:13 AM
Subject: Grounding a station in an apartment


> Hi all:=20
>
> I was just wondering: how do you ground a ham station thats setup in an =
> apartment on a 2ND or higher floor?=20
> Obviously, the Land Lord or the building owners wouldn't appreciate the =
> Ham Tenant drilling holes in the wall to thread long leads of ground =
> wire. Plus, you have to go short as possible to a good Earth ground. =
> They might permit an antenna feedline, after all, communication lines =
> have to enter the unit,=20
> so they may permit you to pass your feed line through the same access =
> point.  I'm thinking of in terms, should my Wife and I move into a house =
> come fall and I'd like to, of course, set up my station but I wouldn't =
> want to go ripping up the house! LOL=20
> Would almost have to be professionally installed. LOL=20
>
> 73:=20
>
> Michael DE VO1RYN=20