The pole is about three feet from my window and the grounding rod is about a
foot from the pole moving toard the window.  Everything's just about on top of
each other with the space I've got.

Tom


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

On Sat, 14 Apr 2012, Gerry Leary wrote:

> Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2012 17:32:58 -0600
> From: Gerry Leary <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: For blind ham radio operators <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: grounding question
>
> 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.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tom Brennan" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> 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
>