[BC] copper to the moon Alice!

[Blake Bowers]

And it is bad.  I would like to see people calling the tower
owner whenever they see someone stripping copper.  I
for one would appreciate it, and would offer rewards if
we caught someone that was not supposed to be there.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Neal Newman" <groucho at skyweb.net>
To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 9:24 AM
Subject: Re: [BC] copper to the moon Alice!


> 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
>
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>
>>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,
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>>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
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