Copper theft has been rampant at wireless sites, often causing thousands in damages for a few dollars gain to the thief. Here’s a low tech solution to protecting copper grounding...
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When Michael Hayden walked onto a tower site near Camden, N.J., in January at the request of American Tower Corp., he was performing a routine RF compliance services inspection....
Police are searching for two men who stole more than $30,000 worth of goods and copper wire in Salt Lake City, Utah. Their target was KSL NewsRadio’s transmission site....
This time, a Christian Talk radio station KKXX 930 AM and 104.5 FM out of Chico, CA reported last week the theft of 22,000 feet of No. 10 copper...
Three men have been arrested for vandalizing a section of Frontier Communications' network in Logan County, West Virginia. Four more arrest warrants have been issued. The men disrupted phone...
Transmitters are the target of copper thieves once again, this time the target was a high-voltage television transmitter at KMBC in Kansas City. The copper thieves managed to temporarily...
At LBA, we design most of our ground systems in 40% Copperweld(TM) #10 wire. This stuff has virtually no scrap value, and there is insignificant AM loss due to...
