[TowerTalk] Where to get LMR 400

[Jim Brown]

On 11/4/2020 5:25 AM, jimlux wrote:
> A few years ago, hardware stores had to start making it harder to grab a 
> 500 foot spool of AWG12 solid wire, because someone could steal it and 
> turn it into a quick $20 at a recycler.

I was a new ham, in high school, in WV, and another ham a few years 
older was the engineer for a 5 kW AM station a mile or so from where I 
lived. He had to replace the ground system for his single tower antenna 
because thieves would dig it up and steal it. He found the wire for sale 
by a neighborhood junk dealer. He buried a new set of radials, and the 
cycle repeated. He even took to parking near the site at night with a 
shotgun.

73, Jim K9YC