At my last job we were having copper ground buss bars stolen. They would hit a cellsite and take them all at ground level. This could add up to 5 or 10 buss bars if the site had multiple carriers on it. The fix has been to replace the buss bars with tinned copper buss bars. It will be a learning curve, but when the thieves find out tinned copper is worth much less than clean copper they may stop taking them. Many thieves are only interested in $10-20 worth of copper. That's all it takes to buy a dose of drugs and get high.
73, Joe, K1ike Tony VE6MVP wrote: > At 06:49 PM 2008-04-22 -0500, Jim Miller WB5OXQ in Waco wrote: > Some outfits are now micro dotting the copper so it can be proven it's > stolen. But melt it down and whos gonna know? > > Tony >
