Police are searching for two men who stole more than $30,000 worth of goods and copper wire in Salt Lake City, Utah. Their target was KSL NewsRadio’s transmission site. The east radio tower is over 400 feet tall and has been there since the 1930s. The actual target of the theft was a building near [...]
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 This time, a Christian Talk radio station KKXX 930 AM and 104.5 FM out of Chico, CA reported last week the theft of 22,000 feet of No. 10 copper wire being used to ground its transmitter, bundled into lengths of 10 to 20 feet.This is the second time the station has been hit by copper [...]  Three men have been arrested for vandalizing a section of Frontier Communications’ network in Logan County, West Virginia. Four more arrest warrants have been issued. The men disrupted phone and internet service and created a public safety risk for Frontier Communication customers by stealing copper and selling to to scrap dealers. Bail was set for the three men for between $140,000 – $150,000 each while they await trial. They will be charged with a felony at minimum but could also face federal charges because the vandalism violates Homeland Security, interstate commerce and environmental protection laws. [...] Thieves stole a 120-foot radio tower in Windber, PA. Along with the tower, the thieves also made off with more than 120 feet of heavy copper wire. The price of copper scrap has more than tripled over the past few years making the theft of copper an increasingly serious problem. The tower was currently unused [...]  At LBA, we design most of our ground systems in 40% Copperweld(TM) #10 wire. This stuff has virtually no scrap value, and there is insignificant AM loss due to the copper cladding being several skin depths thick at AM frequencies. It is stiff enough that anyone trying to pull it up should think twice about [...] Copper thefts from radio transmitters and towers have continued to rise, paralleling the increasing value of copper. Last Wednesday, one such theft became a threatening situation for “Lite 96.9″ WRSA-FM, Huntsville engineer John Macpherson and his teenage daughter. When the station went off the air around 4:45am that morning, Macpherson thought they were in for [...]  With copper prices in the stratosphere, those thousands of feet of copper wire buried near your AM tower are really attractive to miscreants! A wrecked ground system can put you off the air, to say nothing of the financial loss at $5.00 or so a pound for thousands of pounds of copper. Here are a [...] |
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