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https://www.al.com/news/2024/02/someone-stole-a-jasper-radio-stations-200-foot-tower-owner-says.html https://www.al.com/news/2024/02/someone-stole-a-jasper-radi

by mkl 3y ago

https://www.al.com/news/2024/02/someone-stole-a-jasper-radio-stations-200-foot-tower-owner-says.html https://www.al.com/news/2024/02/someone-stole-a-jasper-radio..., big discussion 9 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39302045 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39302045 Radio station owner says transmitting tower was stolen, as if it had disappeared overnight. Related story about things not adding up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39397568 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39397568

AtlasBarfed 3y ago
This is one of those stories that every single police procedural show on TV/streaming will have some version of in the next production cycle.
- xattt 3y ago
  Law & Order: Spectrum Management and Telecommunications Division
  - AnarchismIsCool 3y ago
    This would just be people sitting in front of screens screaming techno-babble for the entire episode...so basically 24?
    - rainbowzootsuit 3y ago
      Dual wielding keyboards too.
- nimbius 3y ago
  As someone with an amateur extra license and a VEC, this smells like some sort of insurance fraud. Theres just no conceivable way in my mind your commercial antenna vanishes and you dont know...nobody checked the swr? The eas output? A litany of regular federal inspections never produced an issue?
  - smcin 3y ago
    Unlikely, the story clearly says "Elmore did not have insurance on that property".
    - saalweachter 3y ago
      GoFundMe scam rather than insurance fraud. You tell your insurance company a bogus story, you get in trouble. You put out a bogus sob story and a link to GoFundMe, you maybe don't.
      - smcin 3y ago
        Ah I see your point now.
  - tonetegeatinst 3y ago
    Currently studying for my HAM license here....I know darn well antenna equipment is not cheap as I'm into software defined radio as a hobby and while I can't transmit I can receive....I assure you that you have to be grossly incopitent to not miss an antenna that size and antennas are not cheap.
    - pbj1968 3y ago
      “Grossly incopitent” Muprhy’s Law strikes again!

by mkl 3y ago

AtlasBarfed 3y ago

This is one of those stories that every single police procedural show on TV/streaming will have some version of in the next production cycle.

xattt 3y ago
Law & Order: Spectrum Management and Telecommunications Division
- AnarchismIsCool 3y ago
  This would just be people sitting in front of screens screaming techno-babble for the entire episode...so basically 24?
  - rainbowzootsuit 3y ago
    Dual wielding keyboards too.
nimbius 3y ago
As someone with an amateur extra license and a VEC, this smells like some sort of insurance fraud. Theres just no conceivable way in my mind your commercial antenna vanishes and you dont know...nobody checked the swr? The eas output? A litany of regular federal inspections never produced an issue?
- smcin 3y ago
  Unlikely, the story clearly says "Elmore did not have insurance on that property".
  - saalweachter 3y ago
    GoFundMe scam rather than insurance fraud. You tell your insurance company a bogus story, you get in trouble. You put out a bogus sob story and a link to GoFundMe, you maybe don't.
    - smcin 3y ago
      Ah I see your point now.
- tonetegeatinst 3y ago
  Currently studying for my HAM license here....I know darn well antenna equipment is not cheap as I'm into software defined radio as a hobby and while I can't transmit I can receive....I assure you that you have to be grossly incopitent to not miss an antenna that size and antennas are not cheap.
  - pbj1968 3y ago
    “Grossly incopitent” Muprhy’s Law strikes again!