[BC] Another site vandalized

[Bill Boyd]

jeff,,
 
it does change the reactance of the atu, and that a miss-tune will show up in the reflected power output.
there was a ground strap that had been cut by workers on a 25kwatt station. we put in new ground strap from the transmitter building to the atu and i had to retune it after we turned it back on.
 
bill
 
In a message dated 12/21/2011 4:53:12 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, broadcast at hidden-valley.com writes:
>Two things:  How is it that any part of the "ground plane" can be
>ripped out without causing the impedance-matching to go absolutely
>nuts to the point you're knocked off the air, and how is that there's
>enough resale value for the copper or whatever to make it worth what
>has to be an incredible effort to remove it from the earth?  I though
>scrap copper only brought about three bucks a pound or so.

>What am I missing?

>Jeff