[bars] 200 ft radio tower stolen without a trace 😳

[Mark Holland]

My initial thought was didn't the station have any equipment that would
have shown the operators there was a problem transmitting?  Seems like the
VSWR would have been a dead giveaway that something had gone very wrong.

On Mon, Feb 12, 2024, 12:27 PM Matt Wagner <mwaggy at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is a wild story all around.
> https://www.insideradio.com/free/an-entire-200-foot-tower-stolen-from-wjlx-am-jasper/article_2d4a5234-c470-11ee-8d1e-5fff768fd725.html
> has some more radio details. It was a 1kW AM tower with a 250W FM
> translator.
>
> To say the quiet part out loud, it seems sad that the issue was discovered
> by landscapers, not by an influx of calls to the station asking why they
> were off the air. (Or perhaps the landscapers were sent to see why it was
> off-air?)
>
> On Mon, Feb 12, 2024 at 11:36 AM Joanne Dolan <dolans.family at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> [image: 90.png]
>>
>> 200-foot radio station tower stolen without a trace in Alabama, silencing
>> small town's voice
>> <https://apnews.com/article/radio-station-tower-stolen-am-fm-alabama-d16a57daeaf10f473df39d628e1fe388>
>> apnews.com
>> <https://apnews.com/article/radio-station-tower-stolen-am-fm-alabama-d16a57daeaf10f473df39d628e1fe388>
>>
>> <https://apnews.com/article/radio-station-tower-stolen-am-fm-alabama-d16a57daeaf10f473df39d628e1fe388>
>>
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