At Farinon Electric, we sold many links of 18GHz microwave to India's Eastern
railway. They could not keep the switch controls and telemetry between
stations in service, because the copper telephone lines between the stations
disappeared as soon as the sun went down!
Steve
N6SJ
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From: TowerTalk <towertalk-bounces@contesting.com> On Behalf Of Gene Smar via
TowerTalk
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2025 8:23 AM
To: Rob Atkinson <ranchorobbo@gmail.com>; towertalk <towertalk@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Do you have copper?
Around the year 2000, I worked on a project to bring cellular phone service to
Haiti. Each of our rural cell sites was surrounded by a poured concrete wall.
This wall also included a 2-room guard shelter. A guard, along with his scatter
gun, was at each shelter to protect against theft of the copper ground mat
under the cell tower, and the diesel fuel that ran our 100% duty cycle
generators.
73 de Gene Smar AD3F
Sent from my Radio Shack TRS-80 model 100 laptop
On Thu, Oct 23, 2025 at 10:38 AM, Rob Atkinson<ranchorobbo@gmail.com> wrote:
Here's a story on the high amount of copper theft in one area (Los
Angeles) but copper theft can take place anywhere. The value of copper has
increased dramatically to over 50% from where it was a few years ago. If you
are in a vulnerable location with visible copper you might consider doing
something to make it less visible.
https://moneywise.com/news/copper-wire-thieves-target-atts-underground-vault-in-la-1502-incidents-leave-streets-in-dark-folks-without-service-why-does-it-keep-happening
73
Rob
K5UJ
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