Hi John -

IMO, an RF ground is a nice-to-have, but not necessarily a must-have.

In my second-floor shack, I have AC grounds only. But I run 1 kW
on 80, 40, 20, 17, 15, 12, and 10, plus 50W on 144 and 440, with
no known problems, or "rf in the shack." The only thing that was
necessary was to do a good job of adjusting the antenna matches.

73, Ed

"John Shadle" wrote in message
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Greetings,
I am trying to set up an HF station and don't have a readily available
ground at my shack location. I have heard that it's possible to run a
wire from the ground connection on your radio, not connected to anything
else, as a "fake ground" as long as you cover the end of the wire (if
coax, as I'm hoping to do) with teflon tape so that it's not exposed.

I was thinking about using 75 ohm coax for this purpose, but was wondering
if that is a bad idea (i.e., 50 ohm coax to attach to the 10m or 20m
antenna and then 75 ohm wire for the "ground"). Has anyone else has
experience with this set-up?

Thanks,
-john (W4PAH)