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WPRL Alcorn hit by copper thieves
- Thread starter flytrap
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Hey, not all copper thefts are bad. I got hit last year, but I hadn't closed on the purchase of the property. So the seller had to install 2 brand new a/c units and a security cage (replacing 10 year old units). This wasn't in a remote area either. It was on US 98 in the heart of downtown Pensacola.
The trend is out of control though, I've personally driven up on 2 electrical wiring thefts-in-progress. in broad daylight, on other peoples property. Both of them were homeless (looking) people who dropped their loot and left on a bicycle when they saw me. Apparently they were intimidated by a well armed redneck in a pickup truck.
The trend is out of control though, I've personally driven up on 2 electrical wiring thefts-in-progress. in broad daylight, on other peoples property. Both of them were homeless (looking) people who dropped their loot and left on a bicycle when they saw me. Apparently they were intimidated by a well armed redneck in a pickup truck.
smashedcd said:
Cause their probably smart enought to know that ripping on S--- Channel will cost them 30 years in the slammer
: vs. a $300 dollar fine for ripping on the locals, independent and educational groups.This reminds me that sometime last year I saw a story of WLOX of a Coast gospel station gettin shut down because of copper theifs.
Electrified fence, works everytime.
Zach said:
That's precisely why it would be such a good target. No one around, plenty of time before someone is notified there's a problem and they can respond.
Auto junkyards have sucessfully used big mean dogs to protect their property for years. Since most transmitter sites are fenced (or should be), why not put dogs in there? Alternately, they could dig a moat around the perimeter, which would be good for AM conductivity anyway, and stock it with piranha.
You might not visit a transmitter site for weeks at a time if everything is running right. If you had dogs guarding (not a bad idea) you'd have to be out there everyday.
I was assuming the transmitter site is on the campus of Alcorn State University or whatever it is - hence, within a small local population. Which is why I think it might have been some of that small, local population that did the crime.
Show of hands - who here could get to Alcorn State without a map right now? Sure as heck not me.
Show of hands - who here could get to Alcorn State without a map right now? Sure as heck not me.
RadeoEngineer said:
You must have had the good luck to have worked for decent stations with modern equipment. A lot of the stations I worked for needed far more attention than that just to stay on the air and be kept halfway legal. Having to visit the transmitter site more than once a day was nothing unusual.
With all of the "webcams" in use now, some of which are even used in studios by the few stations that actually still employ live human beings to be on the air, it seems like a surveillance camera could be set up at a transmitter site and somebody at the station could monitor it for any suspicious activity.
CatFM said:
Indeed I did work for good facilities, but even the lesser ones I dealt with could generally be left alone for a week at a time with a little maintenance and convincing the owner it was better to spend a little now than a whole lot more from a failure.
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