[TowerTalk] Do you have copper?

[Steve Jones]

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



-----Original Message-----
From: TowerTalk <towertalk-bounces at contesting.com> On Behalf Of Gene Smar via TowerTalk
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2025 8:23 AM
To: Rob Atkinson <ranchorobbo at gmail.com>; towertalk <towertalk at 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 

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  On Thu, Oct 23, 2025 at 10:38 AM, Rob Atkinson<ranchorobbo at 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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