kernelkole wrote:
Of the solutions presented in the ARRL Antenna Book for 2nd storey
grounding...ha, ha! There are no solutions!

But that doesn't help me.

I live in an apartment - a set of rooms in a 100+ year old building,
so
you'd THINK they'd have copper/metal plumbing; but, no. It's been
pvc'd. So no cold water pipe.

The ARRL cautions, and I concur, against dropping a long bit o' wire
from the window to the ground - many issues, including having the
ground wire function as a resonator, or, RF burns from touching th
radio. Don't want those.

There's the MFJ "artificial" ground, but I don't see how that would
work with the ATAS 100 I have - like having an antenna tuner for an
antenna tuner.

Any thoughts?

thanks,
kc0olm

What does the ATAS 100 feed, and where is it? Just use complete
antennas.
Myself, I wouldn't worry about it. You don't need a ground in the
shack for rf purposes, as long as the antenna is not fed directly from
the
shack. IE: random wire fed from a tuner in the shack, etc..I haven't
used
an rf ground in the shack for years. I would not waste any money on an
MFJ "artificial ground". MK