***SPAM*** Re: [bars] 200 ft radio tower stolen without a trace 😳

[KEN CARUSO]

They stole the transmitter too...
 
Ken - WO1N

> On 02/12/2024 12:49 PM EST Mark Holland <mark.a.holland at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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 mailto:mwaggy at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > 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 mailto:dolans.family at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > [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
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