[Elecraft] direction and power

[MC Carpenter]

    let as suppose that you sitting in your arm chair with  key in your hand
    watching Desperate Housewife's. You have run a four foot stainless steel 
rod
    out of your front window on the 3 rd (top) floor of you  apt. building. 
From
    the actual connection on the radio ( at connector) to the stainless 
steel
    rod  antenna you have a R-59 co-ax cable.
    Question: To get the best directional and the least power loss to have a
    co-ax cable run from your chair to the stainless rod antenna and the 
shield
    at the antenna end ( not the radio end) to be directly attached to the 
A/C
    grounding on the wall outlet.  Just reading the NEC code book that all
    multi-dwelling building must have a minimum of two grounding rods of 
eight
    feet installed vertically..
     If that outside the window stainless steel rod antenna is angled at 45
    degrees to the south point on the horizon does that mean that a larger 
part
    of the transmission goes south  with less going north.

- Done.