[TowerTalk] WSJ: Home copper thefts rise

[Jim Chaggaris]

Well, In my 20 years of selling transformers, cable and everything
electrical, I've never seen anything like this.  ComEd is losing reels of
cable on a regular basis. 

73's
 
Jim N9WW
 
James Chaggaris
President
PowerOne Corp.
1020 Cedar Avenue
Suite 110
St. Charles, IL 60174
Phn: 630-443-6500
Fax: 630-443-6505
Cell: 630-669-2241
 
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Jim Brown
Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 10:08 PM
To: towertalk at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] WSJ: Home copper thefts rise

On Thu, 7 Sep 2006 21:24:07 -0500, Jim Chaggaris wrote:

>They'll steal anything that's around.

This is not such a new story. I grew up in West Virginia within the 
shadow of three AM broadcast antennas, one of them a 4-tower array 
where I spent a summer silver-soldering a ground system. We were 
lucky -- ours wasn't stolen, we replaced it because we had trouble 
keeping the array stable. Our next door neighbor, with 5 kW on 1470, 
replaced his a couple of times a year. Each time, he would find the 
copper in junk shops a few miles away. The thieves would actually 
dig it up out of the ground! 

Jim K9YC 


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