Re: [Repeater-Builder] IMPORTANT - large amount of stolen equipment recovered - is some yours?
At 03:19 PM 07/01/09, you wrote: Not that impressive really. Whats all this crap worth, maybe $20k? Well, item 105 is a VHF MTR2000 repeater. Think that might be worth something ? Item 117 on the list is a box of 123 handhelds. Pages 4-7 list them. There are a number of HT1000s and HT750s and at least one XTS. Item 202 is a Sinclair Q3220E UHF duplexer. Tessco catalog shows $1100 as the price. I could go on... Not really that much money. You would be of a different opinion if it was your XTS that disappeared, or your hilltop repeater that evaporated. I posted the newsletter fragment so that those that HAVE had stuff disappear might take a look at the serial number lists and maybe recover some property. This mailing list has over 4500 members, and the published story specifically encouraged re-mailing it to others. Hopefully the VCSO detective will get some phone calls or emails stating you've got my equipment. And stuff HAS disappeared from mountaintop sites over the years. I've seen photos of buildings that have been broken into - some were as simple as backing a truck trailer hitch into the door and driving away with it. Others were broken into by drilling out the door locks. The perps have gone through the building walls in several cases. FM broadcast parts pop up in rather strange places these days for cheap since theres really not much legitimate commercial market for a boat-anchor transmitter. A complete 1kw FM broadcast transmitter is unusual enough when it is recovered in a pile of land mobile radios. Plus the newsletter, while run by a ham, is oriented towards the broadcast community, and Mr. Gonset naturally chose to focus on the broadcast equipment. And there is plenty of market in rural areas, and in Mexico. You'd think someone smart/slick enough to get away with stealing that much gear would likely be smart enough to not get busted by the FCC for screwing with mall cops. True, and there is no way to tell what goes through some peoples minds... Some of the comments on this news page are interesting. http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2009/jun/30/to-malls-radio-frequencies-jammed-man-arrested/#comments Did this guy sell LM radio/programming for a living? Don't know. One local gentleman thinks that he works (worked?) for a local TV station. Mike WA6ILQ
Re: [Repeater-Builder] IMPORTANT - large amount of stolen equipment recovered - is some yours?
The story was also featured in Radio World Online, which is a newsletter that comes out usually on Fridays, but because of the holiday weekend coming up it was sent out today. Here's the link: http://www.rwonline.com/article/83246 Don, KD9PT - Original Message - From: Mike Morris WA6ILQ wa6...@gmail.com To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 1:04 AM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] IMPORTANT - large amount of stolen equipment recovered - is some yours? At 03:19 PM 07/01/09, you wrote: Not that impressive really. Whats all this crap worth, maybe $20k? Well, item 105 is a VHF MTR2000 repeater. Think that might be worth something ? Item 117 on the list is a box of 123 handhelds. Pages 4-7 list them. There are a number of HT1000s and HT750s and at least one XTS. Item 202 is a Sinclair Q3220E UHF duplexer. Tessco catalog shows $1100 as the price. I could go on... Not really that much money. You would be of a different opinion if it was your XTS that disappeared, or your hilltop repeater that evaporated. I posted the newsletter fragment so that those that HAVE had stuff disappear might take a look at the serial number lists and maybe recover some property. This mailing list has over 4500 members, and the published story specifically encouraged re-mailing it to others. Hopefully the VCSO detective will get some phone calls or emails stating you've got my equipment. And stuff HAS disappeared from mountaintop sites over the years. I've seen photos of buildings that have been broken into - some were as simple as backing a truck trailer hitch into the door and driving away with it. Others were broken into by drilling out the door locks. The perps have gone through the building walls in several cases. FM broadcast parts pop up in rather strange places these days for cheap since theres really not much legitimate commercial market for a boat-anchor transmitter. A complete 1kw FM broadcast transmitter is unusual enough when it is recovered in a pile of land mobile radios. Plus the newsletter, while run by a ham, is oriented towards the broadcast community, and Mr. Gonset naturally chose to focus on the broadcast equipment. And there is plenty of market in rural areas, and in Mexico. You'd think someone smart/slick enough to get away with stealing that much gear would likely be smart enough to not get busted by the FCC for screwing with mall cops. True, and there is no way to tell what goes through some peoples minds... Some of the comments on this news page are interesting. http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2009/jun/30/to-malls-radio-frequencies-jammed-man-arrested/#comments Did this guy sell LM radio/programming for a living? Don't know. One local gentleman thinks that he works (worked?) for a local TV station. Mike WA6ILQ Yahoo! Groups Links
[Repeater-Builder] IMPORTANT - large amount of stolen equipment recovered - is some yours?
Recently the FCC busted a local jammer and when his residence was searched they found a treasure trove. There are over 200 pieces of equipment involved including laptops, desktops, over 120 handhelds and several repeaters. And broadcast equipment including a commercial grade FM transmitter. If anybody has serial numbers on file that matches anything on the lists mentioned below I think that the Ventura County Sheriff's Department would like to hear from you - contact Detective Jon Smith at (805) 494-8216 or via e-mail at jon.smith (at) ventura (dot) org The snippet below is from the CGC Communicator, a broadcast industry weekly newsletter published by Robert F. Gonsett, W6VR, cgc (at) cgc333 (dot) connectnet (dot) com, Copyright 2009, Communications General® Corporation (CGC). Reprinted with permission, and the newsletter has given permission for others to do likewise. No additional permission is needed. ** LIST OF POTENTIALLY STOLEN EQUIPMENT IN THE BONDY CASE The Ventura County Sheriff's Department has prepared its list of potentially stolen radio equipment in the Kevin Bondy case. Mr. Bondy is accused of jamming some southern California radio frequencies as discussed in recent CGC Communicator newsletters. A police search of his residence turned up an extraordinary amount of potentially stolen radio gear. Your help is needed. Is any of this equipment yours? Would you copy this story to others in the land-mobile and broadcast industries, particularly to equipment dealers and publications? If some or all of this equipment is stolen, the owners need to contact the Ventura County Sheriff pronto. Items #120 - 123 involve FM broadcast equipment; the rest is land-mobile gear (including repeaters) with a few miscellaneous items mixed in (e.g. computers, CB amateur radio gear). The first URL takes you to the list. The second URL shows pictures of the FM broadcast equipment and gives contact information for the Ventura County Sheriff. Communications General Corp. has been in touch with Broadcast Electronics concerning Item #120, the solid state 1,000 watt FM broadcast transmitter. Unfortunately, the serial number is a bit outdated for their records, but perhaps you or an equipment dealer would have a record of the sales transaction. Thanks for helping by looking over the equipment list and forwarding this story to others. Equipment list: http://earthsignals.com/add_CGC/Oaks_Mall_09-5771.pdf Photographs of the FM broadcast equipment: http://earthsignals.com/add_CGC/Letters/Stolen%20Equipment.htm Background information on Mr. Bondy: http://www.fcc.gov/eb/FieldNotices/2003/DOC-290813A1.html **
Re: [Repeater-Builder] IMPORTANT - large amount of stolen equipment recovered - is some yours?
It's all mine... unfortunately I didn't keep any of the receipts. :-) Mike, KO9I - Original Message - From: Mike Morris WA6ILQ To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com ; repea...@yahoogroups.com ; repeat...@yahoogroups.com ; l...@yahoogroups.com ; radio-p...@yahoogroups.com ; socals...@yahoogroups.com Cc: Bill Pasternak WA6ITF Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 12:34 PM Subject: [Repeater-Builder] IMPORTANT - large amount of stolen equipment recovered - is some yours? Recently the FCC busted a local jammer and when his residence was searched they found a treasure trove. There are over 200 pieces of equipment involved including laptops, desktops, over 120 handhelds and several repeaters. And broadcast equipment including a commercial grade FM transmitter. If anybody has serial numbers on file that matches anything on the lists mentioned below I think that the Ventura County Sheriff's Department would like to hear from you - contact Detective Jon Smith at (805) 494-8216 or via e-mail at jon.smith (at) ventura (dot) org The snippet below is from the CGC Communicator, a broadcast industry weekly newsletter published by Robert F. Gonsett, W6VR, cgc (at) cgc333 (dot) connectnet (dot) com, Copyright 2009, Communications General® Corporation (CGC). Reprinted with permission, and the newsletter has given permission for others to do likewise. No additional permission is needed. ** LIST OF POTENTIALLY STOLEN EQUIPMENT IN THE BONDY CASE The Ventura County Sheriff's Department has prepared its list of potentially stolen radio equipment in the Kevin Bondy case. Mr. Bondy is accused of jamming some southern California radio frequencies as discussed in recent CGC Communicator newsletters. A police search of his residence turned up an extraordinary amount of potentially stolen radio gear. Your help is needed. Is any of this equipment yours? Would you copy this story to others in the land-mobile and broadcast industries, particularly to equipment dealers and publications? If some or all of this equipment is stolen, the owners need to contact the Ventura County Sheriff pronto. Items #120 - 123 involve FM broadcast equipment; the rest is land-mobile gear (including repeaters) with a few miscellaneous items mixed in (e.g. computers, CB amateur radio gear). The first URL takes you to the list. The second URL shows pictures of the FM broadcast equipment and gives contact information for the Ventura County Sheriff. Communications General Corp. has been in touch with Broadcast Electronics concerning Item #120, the solid state 1,000 watt FM broadcast transmitter. Unfortunately, the serial number is a bit outdated for their records, but perhaps you or an equipment dealer would have a record of the sales transaction. Thanks for helping by looking over the equipment list and forwarding this story to others. Equipment list: http://earthsignals.com/add_CGC/Oaks_Mall_09-5771.pdf Photographs of the FM broadcast equipment: http://earthsignals.com/add_CGC/Letters/Stolen%20Equipment.htm Background information on Mr. Bondy: http://www.fcc.gov/eb/FieldNotices/2003/DOC-290813A1.html **
Re: [Repeater-Builder] IMPORTANT - large amount of stolen equipment recovered - is some yours?
Not that impressive really. Whats all this crap worth, maybe $20k? Not really that much money. FM broadcast parts pop up in rather strange places these days for cheap since theres really not much legitimate commercial market for a boat-anchor transmitter. You'd think someone smart/slick enough to get away with stealing that much gear would likely be smart enough to not get busted by the FCC for screwing with mall cops. Did this guy sell LM radio/programming for a living? JS Mike Morris WA6ILQ wrote: Recently the FCC busted a local jammer and when his residence was searched they found a treasure trove. There are over 200 pieces of equipment involved including laptops, desktops, over 120 handhelds and several repeaters. And broadcast equipment including a commercial grade FM transmitter. If anybody has serial numbers on file that matches anything on the lists mentioned below I think that the Ventura County Sheriff's Department would like to hear from you - contact Detective Jon Smith at (805) 494-8216 or via e-mail at jon.smith (at) ventura (dot) org The snippet below is from the CGC Communicator, a broadcast industry weekly newsletter published by Robert F. Gonsett, W6VR, cgc (at) cgc333 (dot) connectnet (dot) com, Copyright 2009, Communications General® Corporation (CGC). Reprinted with permission, and the newsletter has given permission for others to do likewise. No additional permission is needed. ** LIST OF POTENTIALLY STOLEN EQUIPMENT IN THE BONDY CASE The Ventura County Sheriff's Department has prepared its list of potentially stolen radio equipment in the Kevin Bondy case. Mr. Bondy is accused of jamming some southern California radio frequencies as discussed in recent CGC Communicator newsletters. A police search of his residence turned up an extraordinary amount of potentially stolen radio gear. Your help is needed. Is any of this equipment yours? Would you copy this story to others in the land-mobile and broadcast industries, particularly to equipment dealers and publications? If some or all of this equipment is stolen, the owners need to contact the Ventura County Sheriff pronto. Items #120 - 123 involve FM broadcast equipment; the rest is land-mobile gear (including repeaters) with a few miscellaneous items mixed in (e.g. computers, CB amateur radio gear). The first URL takes you to the list. The second URL shows pictures of the FM broadcast equipment and gives contact information for the Ventura County Sheriff. Communications General Corp. has been in touch with Broadcast Electronics concerning Item #120, the solid state 1,000 watt FM broadcast transmitter. Unfortunately, the serial number is a bit outdated for their records, but perhaps you or an equipment dealer would have a record of the sales transaction. Thanks for helping by looking over the equipment list and forwarding this story to others. Equipment list: http://earthsignals.com/add_CGC/Oaks_Mall_09-5771.pdf http://earthsignals.com/add_CGC/Oaks_Mall_09-5771.pdf Photographs of the FM broadcast equipment: http://earthsignals.com/add_CGC/Letters/Stolen%20Equipment.htm http://earthsignals.com/add_CGC/Letters/Stolen%20Equipment.htm Background information on Mr. Bondy: http://www.fcc.gov/eb/FieldNotices/2003/DOC-290813A1.html http://www.fcc.gov/eb/FieldNotices/2003/DOC-290813A1.html **
