[BC] copper to the moon Alice!

[Brian Urban]

I had reason to check with the University police on something that occurred
at our tower the other day.  The officer (inspector level) mentioned that
Texas had recently upgraded the trespassing penalties for "critical
infrastructure" which included the tower, guy anchors, transmitter building,
etc.  This was in response to terrorist activity.  I'll bet many states have
done similar things.  How many of you know that your transmission facility
is now classed as "critical infrastructure" (at least in Texas)?

-- 
Brian Urban
KUT Radio
University of Texas at Austin
Office 512-471-1085
Cell 512-940-4757



On 6/16/06 10:17 AM, "Blake Bowers" <bbowers at townsqr.com> wrote:

> 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
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> 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
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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