<div dir="auto">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. </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Feb 12, 2024, 12:27 PM Matt Wagner <<a href="mailto:mwaggy@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">mwaggy@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>This is a wild story all around. <a href="https://www.insideradio.com/free/an-entire-200-foot-tower-stolen-from-wjlx-am-jasper/article_2d4a5234-c470-11ee-8d1e-5fff768fd725.html" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.insideradio.com/free/an-entire-200-foot-tower-stolen-from-wjlx-am-jasper/article_2d4a5234-c470-11ee-8d1e-5fff768fd725.html</a> has some more radio details. It was a 1kW AM tower with a 250W FM translator.<br></div><div><br></div><div>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?)<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Feb 12, 2024 at 11:36 AM Joanne Dolan <<a href="mailto:dolans.family@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">dolans.family@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div style="display:block"><div style="display:inline-block" role="link"><a style="border-radius:10px;font-family:-apple-system,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;display:block;width:300px;overflow:hidden;text-decoration:none" rel="nofollow noreferrer noreferrer" href="https://apnews.com/article/radio-station-tower-stolen-am-fm-alabama-d16a57daeaf10f473df39d628e1fe388" dir="ltr" role="button" width="300" target="_blank"><table style="table-layout:fixed;border-collapse:collapse;width:300px;background-color:rgb(233,233,235);font-family:-apple-system,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="300"><tbody><tr><td align="center"><img style="width:300px;height:168px" width="300" height="168" alt="90.png" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=6dd658e42e&attid=0.1&th=18d9e6c313f7f006&view=fimg&fur=ip&rm=18d9e6c313f7f006&sz=w1600-h1000&attbid=ANGjdJ_Li8v_lnwS0lMbdNh94K9r3eQHTly2vabjiyRpywI_c2NBgIrb4_RAe7FXXNTf9AkElmaZE-T3Ay2bCEPwW6FTTASHWCVlkZef1GnOl7Hr9nqucCEIZKUpUrU&disp=emb&realattid=ii_18d9e4e603363ff3ed21&zw"></td></tr><tr><td><table bgcolor="#E9E9EB" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="300" style="font-family:-apple-system,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;table-layout:fixed;background-color:rgb(233,233,235)"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:8px 0px"><div style="max-width:100%;margin:0px 16px;overflow:hidden"><div style="font-weight:500;font-size:12px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;text-align:left"><a rel="nofollow noreferrer noreferrer" href="https://apnews.com/article/radio-station-tower-stolen-am-fm-alabama-d16a57daeaf10f473df39d628e1fe388" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><font color="#000000" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">200-foot radio station tower stolen without a trace in Alabama, silencing small town's voice</font></a></div><div style="font-weight:400;font-size:11px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;text-align:left"><a rel="nofollow noreferrer noreferrer" href="https://apnews.com/article/radio-station-tower-stolen-am-fm-alabama-d16a57daeaf10f473df39d628e1fe388" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><font color="#A2A2A9" style="color:rgba(60,60,67,0.6)">apnews.com</font></a></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></a></div></div><br id="m_5048819821271234644m_-2936166732329798170m_-489538181295153159lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPad</div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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