A local AM station here in Waco recently had much of its rack mounted equipment stolen during the daytime and it was not noticed until that night when the site which was only on the air after sunset would not come on line. Thieves got away with this since many tower sites are located in cow pastures with nobody around to see what is going on (except the cows). I have since installed alarm systems on the buildings with wireless cellular backups in case thieves cut the phone line to the transmitter site. Too bad thieves did not try to touch the tower when it was energized. 10kw of rf can burn you pretty bad and I doubt the transmitter would shut down quickly from only a human body shunting it to ground. Those new Harris DX10 solid state am transmitters may not be as sensitive to a slight change is swr as some of the older tube rigs may be. Only problem with alarm systems is the law is sometimes way too late getting to a remote site! WB5OXQ ----- Original Message ----- From: Paul Finch To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 8:35 AM Subject: RE: Re: [Repeater-Builder] More on Copper theft
In the tower building I have several customers, paging, public service, Wi-Fi, trunking systems as well as my Ham repeaters and it scares me to no end that they are going to get in the building and try and steal or vandalize something. Paul ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Here in Texas you can use deadly force to protect your property, day or night. Might be a good idea to move to the site for security with as big a weapon you can handle. David ===================== From: MCH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 2008/04/22 Tue PM 11:11:04 CDT To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] More on Copper theft But, they don't know the value of that, and likely don't have any outlets to get money from it. But, they DO know the value of copper, and there are plenty of scrap yards.. BUT, you would think that the first few cuts would have deterred them since the majority of the metal is NOT copper - as you can clearly see in the photos. I bet the left the connectors on the strike plate, too (assuming there is one). Joe M. Paul Finch wrote: > And left a $200.00 connector. > > Paul > > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > *From:* [email protected] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Juan Tellez > *Sent:* Tuesday, April 22, 2008 6:10 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [Repeater-Builder] More on Copper theft > > __,_._,__*/ /*Here is a picture of what happen last week in one of my > sites:_ > > *//* > > *//* > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.3/1390 - Release Date: > 4/21/2008 4:23 PM > > > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.3/1392 - Release Date: > 4/22/2008 3:51 PM > > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.3/1392 - Release Date: 4/22/2008 3:51 PM ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.3/1392 - Release Date: 4/22/2008 3:51 PM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.3/1392 - Release Date: 4/22/2008 3:51 PM
