[BC] copper to the moon Alice!

[Neal Newman]

OUCH.... just ordered over 12k feet of transmission cable for one 
project. And will spend next week repairing a ground system that was 
hit.... where can I rent the IR  anti-copper thief machine gun..

To top that off...I came home from work and found that someone helped 
themselves into my backyard pole barn where I had a crate which 
contained a single FM Bay on 97.5 rated for 50kw and 30 feet of 3" 
solid feed line.. They also took a SWR antenna cut for 89.3 and 2 
6812 Elements on 91.9...

Its getting really bad out there. I was really looking to find the 
body of the guy that cut the copper between the towers and the 
ATU's  while the station was live.  no such luck.
Neal



>I was told yesterday that Andrew and Cablewave had started a market 
>driven copper surcharge on line orders.
>
>Copper thefts will continue to increase at tower sites till the 
>market stabilizes...
>
>Later,
>
>
>
>At 05:14 PM 6/14/2006, Rob Atkinson wrote
>Okay Jackie Geason never mentioned copper, but I heard last night 
>that the price of wire has gone to the moon.   I heard 500' of 12 
>gauge is 90 bucks; 500' of no.14 solid is over $40 at your typical 
>big box store (this is the stuff