In article , SR
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Telamon wrote:

In article , SR
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Telamon wrote:


In article , SR
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I live in an apartment building. Around the 4th floor. My shack is in
one room and the nearest Cold Water Pipe is in the bathroom.

It would take about 20 feet of wire to go around the wall to reach the
little Cold Water pipe in the bathroom under the sink.

I am not sure which gauge of wire to buy, or must it be 100% copper?

As for clamps: What would be a good type to use? The largest thing to
clamp would be a PL259 coax connector.

What about soldering each clamps to the wire?

I have a few radios & things and maybe even an antenna that I want to
bring to a common ground.

Is their some kind of copper pipe that I could have in a horizontal
position behind the radios on my desk area, everything then clamp down
to the horizontal copper pipe, then to the 20 feet wire, then to the
Cold Water Pipe?

Is their a meter that I could also have in this line, to watch any
grounding fluctuation? I think that would be fun to watch!


A ground may or may not make any difference. It depends on the antenna
you are using. Being 40 foot off the ground the water pipe will behave
like a wire instead of ground so connecting to it is of little
consequence.


It is not so much the antena, it is the radio that need grounded. So
lets start with that.


Do you have a three wire plug or two wires? If you have a three wire
plug the third wire is ground. I don't think using a cold water pipe is
an appropriate ground path for electrical devices.


My apartment has 3 hole electric sockets. And since I use power surges
for most of my radio and computer things. Then I must be grounded.

Yes, the third prong is earth ground.

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Telamon
Ventura, California