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
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