i have a 12v yeasu amateur radio and it blew a fuse last night, a friend told me it could be bacause the radio is not earthed and it would work better earthed, but heres the thing i live in a multi story high flat and i dont have acces to a garden to insert an earthing rod and to run a wire to my radio, but i do have copper water pipes running all through my house, so i was wandering what if i ran a wire from my radio onto the copper pipes of my home, would that be an earth ????? plz help thanks.
do you want roof top antenna lightning strikes to come into your home or to your back garden?
It is unlikely that you blew a fuse due to poor grounding. But Grounding is very important in amateur radio. The better the RF ground the better. If you make a good connection to the water pipe, that will be better than nothing but not nearly as good as a proper ground Consider moving. In the mean time read up on counterpoise
